When I get back, we'll start back with our 10 years ago series and I'll tell you the whole background story as I finally hit rock bottom, physically, and we take drastic steps to save my life -- and then a little miracle comes in the mail and more miracles happen on stage. Stay tuned. The best is yet to come!
Thank you. Oh, and here's your thought for today:
You're not creating your future. You're creating your past.
Steve (and Thurber & Steinbeck)
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Safe Travels you two!
Hasta luago,Steve.
Oh, and enjoy!
Have a great Trip! Plenty PLENTY Love
We will see you when you get home. Have a grand trip and stay safe.
Hello from Italy! Just checking in but not logging in.
Steve
I was wondering where you had gotten to. I am glad to learn you are off having fun!
Hello from Italy!
Place dropper! Get yer skinny butt back here. I miss you.
The Whacko Activist you still don't understand
I understand what you are, my friend, by what you do. I know it offends you that people like Jimmy and I think we're just as good or as worthy in our relationship as the heterosexuals you bow down to, but everyone has to live with their choices. I know you think James Dobson and Gary Bauer are men of honor, but I see them as men of violence and death.
Do what you have to do.
Randy, my friend, you worship heterosexuality, as if being gay (a label you despise despite the fact that you are same sex attracted just like every other gay person on the planet) is some kind of "fault" that needs to be corrected. Well, darling, when you go before congress (as you do) and insist that they make laws amending the constitution to make sure Jimmy and I never have the legal equality of heteros (which you do), then I have big problem with the lip service that you "love" me, but I guarantee that I went before congress to make it illegal for "exgays" to marry each other, I doubt you would consider that an act of love.
Your actions speak for you. I don't mean to offend you but you clearly make you understand that becoming god's little soldier in a campaign to destroy gay people, to deny we even exist (as your Dr. Nicolosi insists) is not an act of love.
Love is a thing you do, not a feeling you feel.
Love never has been and never will be that simple Steve. If actions alone determine love, than you are as legalistic as any conservative Christian I have ever met.
If actions do not indicate the evidence of love, then what does, Randy? Seriously. Or as the hymn goes, "Love is something you do."
Sacrifice ... unconditional. None of it there in your response.
Sacrifice IS an action. Unconditional love IS an action. I can love you unconditionally, but I won't be lobbying congress to prevent you from marrying the person you might fall in love with. That would be an act of unlove.
You told me long ago, you were only interested in "helping those with unwanted same sex attraction." When did that change? When did helping those with "unwanted" same sex attraction become "changing the constitution to make life harder for those who happily accept their same sex orientation?
You've boiled me down to an inhuman ideologue soldier. I have never seen you as a faceless enemy.
Inhuman? Now who's being a drama queen? :-) I'm merely looking at your actions and seeing what you've done with yourself. I think you're a person of great love and heart, Randy. But your goals have been twisted by Christianist political forces who are mixing politics and ministry--and destroying the conservative Christians I used to love so dearly. There was a time when conservative Christians tolerated those with differing interpretations of scripture. Now, the Bauers and Dobsons of the world are seeking to become the new Ayatollahs of Rightness.
When did you and your leaders give yourselves permission to interfere in MY life and MY rights as a citizen of this country. When did you decide I was some kind of enemy of God and the US?
Sorry to not be all that you would have me to be.
This isn't about me. It's about a person who used to be a minister who has become a politician and a warrior. If that's what you want to be, then have at it. If you can sleep at night, then peace be upon you.
Randy, for all my criticism, I also want to recognize that you do acknowledge the violence and bigotry directed at gay people, whether they identify as gay or not. You've been very vocal in opposing homophobia in the Christian community. I appreciate that and affirm that you are an honest man who feels he is doing the right thing.
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