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(Community Matters) Some pics from our art tour

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SREC Member: “I got into politics to put Christian conservatives into office.”

“We elected a house with Christian, conservative values. We now want a true Christian, conservative running it.”

“When I got involved in politics, I told people I wanted to put Christian conservatives in leadership positions.”

“I want to make sure that a person I’m supporting is going to have my values. It’s not anything about Jews and whether I think their religion is right or Muslims and whether I think their religion is right. … I got into politics to put Christian conservatives into office. They’re the people that do the best jobs over all.”

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(Community Matters) I agree with the call for resolve and keeping the commitment to veto extension of tax cuts for the wealthy which few Americans even support & is bad for our economy.  NYTimes editorial

(Community Matters) Anurendra Jegadeva our favorite artist from today’s tour.  Spent serious time with one of our new, favorite Malaysians, Wei-Ling Lim at her Brickfields gallery, as well as a delightful session with Valentine Willie Gallery manager, Snow Ng.

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(Community Matters) Glee : ‘Baby It’s Cold Outside”

Most of my friends know I don’t really do Christmas songs, yet . . .

Vodpod videos no longer available.

(Community Matters) post David Wojnarowicz’s art video

Now Rep. Jack Kingston (R-GA) wants the Smithsonian investigated and its funding pulled.

He’s very upset about male nudity and a photograph in the museum of “Ellen DeGeneres grabbing her own breast!”

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Happy Hanukkah

(Community Matters) Our friend Colin, this month’s Man of Austin cover boy

we barely missed him in Berlin, though hopefully he’ll be back at La Sombra in a few weeks or bartending again at Michael Mitchell’s next birthday party

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(Community Matters) Chris Matthews has shown that Tony Perkins (Family Research Council) misled viewers when citing an American College of Pediatricians study calling homosexuality harmful to children. This during an  on-air debate with the Southern Poverty Law Center.  The former is livid that the Family Research Council has been labeled a hate group (noting FRC’s propagation of known falsehoods) by the decades old, well respected civil rights organization.

Turns out the American *College* of Pediatricians is an early 2000 splinter group of 100ish members of the American *Academy* of Pediatrics.  They broke off when the American Academy supported gay parental rights.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFMjYNh63rg&feature=player_embedded

The American Family Association is another organization which will be listed as a hate group, again for “their propagation of known falsehoods – claims about LGBT people that have been thoroughly discredited by scientific authorities

(Community Matters) Andrew Sullivan posts very important information about general Arab opinion of a nuclear armed Iran – very different perspective than what we’re hearing from the region’s dictators in the leaked cables.  Gives pause and perspective to US involvement in a war on Iran or strike on its arsenal, ie., would we further cement an anti-American sentiment among the Middle East population?

on the other hand, Iran . . . .

(Community Matters) At a usually insightful and respected source, Open Secret’s summer intern misses the boat, though I can see this being spoon fed to her by those calling for boycotts – sorta an intern’s initiation to not blindly follow even “prominent sources.”

Some of the error is obviously intentional since everyone knows donations are down in nonpresidential election years, the rest at best simply naive.  She notes the call for a boycott of LGBT dollars to the DNC but fails to note we had a record breaking, nonpresidential, year (general & LGBT $).  Excluding these monies from the denominator is silly – worse if just to make a story. Lots of other LGBT political organizations which should be included (including Republican).  We may not be single-minded (applause & rejoicing here) but we’re every bit as engaged and exercising even more political might than ever before – hey, win some lose some, at least it’s no longer one step forward, three back

12/05 update: based on a lack of clarity and consistency in measurement of dollars raised by the LGBT Leadership Council, I’m revising my statement from our best year to one of our best years.