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2003-10-13 About to Go On Hiatus I start that temporary job working the 1 to 9 shift tomorrow, so this will likely be my last entry until the weekend. By the time I get home, I'll have time only to watch a couple of taped shows and do some editing before heading off to bed to repeat the same process all over again. I'm really not looking forward to this - the job itself sounds easy but boring, but it's really the hours that suck. I'm definitely not a morning person, but I still prefer to work normal hours like 9 to 5. But hey. I've gotta keep reminding myself that at least I'll be making money. And it's only temporary. Two-and-a-half weeks maximum. ************* In other news, something came to my attention that pissed me off so much I could scream. You can read the article here. Basically, an ignorant bigot of a pastor wants to erect a monument celebrating the murder of a young gay man, Matthew Sheppard in a public park - the monument would basically say that Sheppard went to Hell for his 'conduct'. It's beyond horrible that anyone, and especially a leader in the community, could harbor so much hate toward anyone. But it's also horrible that it seems, from what the article claims, that no one can really do anything about it without first removing a monument with the Ten Commandments on it from the same park. Excuse me? Now, I'm not sure how I feel about having the Ten Commandments in a public park, but at least that monument doesn't spread and celebrate hate, in and of itself. This monument that the pastor wants erected does. How can nothing be done about this? He wouldn't be able to have such a monument put up if it celebrated the murder of someone in a minority group. He wouldn't be able to say that so-and-so went to Hell because he/she was black/Hispanic/Asian/whatever. Of course, there's the (stupid) argument that homosexuality is a choice but that's besides the point. The point is that such a monument basically condones the murder of another human being. How that can be legal is beyond me. I don't understand how, in our North American society, where change is inevitable, where difference is beginning to be celebrated, where varieties of cultures and customs and 'conducts' proliferate, that there can still be assholes out there who deny certain groups the rights they deserve as human beings, who may not be stopped from spreading their hate. |
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