The audacity of so many right-wing religious fanatics to assume their view of things trumps all others is unbelievable. The gloves are off. No more “nice guy” and “live and let live” attitude from me with these people… at least not until I receive the same courtesy from them.

I have a clear, blunt message for anyone who thinks they will assume the right to interfere in my legal personal and private affairs.

Stay away from me. Although I am a profoundly non-violent individual, I would have no hesitation doing you grievous bodily harm should you ignore my warnings.

Prurient: Too interested in the details of another person’s sexual behavior.
Repressed sexual deviants, religious fanatics and self-righteous hypocrites are often morbidly obsessed and inordinately interested in matters of sex.

In my experience, extreme examples of this type consider sex more evil than murder.

Monkey hormones.

That’s why dominant males have always resented the idea that other males have sex. If rich white people have extramarital sex, then that’s ok; but if poor or colourefd people do it, it’s abominable.

It’s straight-out primate behaviour that they feel this way.

Ah, well, if women do end up with no form of legal contraception then I guess we’ll have to have Haliburton build more special prisons to house the criminal ones who dare to choose.

Rebecca Solnit, in her recent book “Hope in the Dark”, a series of short pieces about cultural turning points and political activism, says that people have a tendency to pack up and go home once a certain objective has been reached, for instance, allowing women the control over their own bodies.

You can never pack up and go home. Each victory has to be vigorously defended.

Why would anyone wish to see unintended and unwanted children born? Are these children to be the punishment for people who dared to have sex for pleasure?

There have been all kinds of methods for birth control and abortion ever since women found out they did not have to bear children they did not want. It was almost invariably women who had this knowledge and passed it on to other women. They were later on branded as witches or accused of consorting with evil spirits.

Time to go back to the battlefield, I guess.

The Southern Baptist Convention has apparently decideed to put woman back where they belong, barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen while their husbands engage in incest, adultery, racism, and alcoholism.  They join the Roman Church which has always held women to be sinful vessels of Satan.  Let them do this.  When abortion, contraception, and freedom are forbidden American women will rise up and vote these Fascisti out.

Having been raised a Fundmentalist Christian as a child, I have dealt with the adsurdities of “Biblical” attitudes toward sex all my life ... first because I only knew what I knew as a child, and then as I grew older because I became aware of the contradictions between those attitudes and basic biology. I resolved the contradictions by moving away from childhood religious beliefs.

Now at the end of that journey, I have written a 3-act play that deals with it, HUNTING THE ROAD KILL MOOSE. It has had favorable workshop readings in Hoboken and Montclair, New Jersey, and I am currently planning an extended dramatic presentaion workshop for it off-off-Broadway in the Village.

In the meantime I have made the play available for non-commercial education and discussion purposes on The Blog Lattice ( http://www.bloglattice.org ) at:

http://www.bloglattice.org/Hunting_the_Road_Kill_Moose-Act_I.html

Acts II & III are accessible through the header on Act I (and reciprocally in their headers).

Does a long life and too much leisure breed authoritative obsessions.  One would think so to see people, who in other times would have been grubbing 12-18 hour work days and falling in their beds exhausted, now intruding into their neighbors lives under the pretext of “knowing what is best,” of imposing their beliefs on society to fill the vacancy of their own lives.
At one time it was thought that education would allow the gap between the general mass of humanity and those fortunate enough to be born or exposed to higher education to be narrowed.  For a short while this seemed to be taking place. 
Now, however, the wider public seems so divorced from science and logical thinking that it is returning to “magical thought.”  I believe what I want and what I want is, or if it is not, against all reality I will make it so by the force of my beliefs and force them on others to re-enforce my beliefs.
Doubt, the groundstone of all logic is totally absent from the project so, like children in the dark, clinging to certitudes is the only way not to face fear.
Minding one’s own business, once a virtue, is now completely out of style.