Capital Commitment, Sour Apple and Despicable Threats

So, New York couldn’t pull together enough legislative votes to pass marriage equality for its citizens, despite a Democratic majority in its senate and a Democratic governor who not only agreed to sign the bill into law, but fought for it, persuaded legislative members and demanded a vote in 2009. But on December 14th, our country’s capital shined: in a vote of 11 to 2, Washington D.C. passed marriage equality for the GLBT community. This is another proud day for the country.

Now, for some less proud acts, we turn, again, to the Catholic Church, who through The Archdiocese of Washington D.C. and Catholic Charities of D.C., made one of the most repulsive, dark threats in the Church’s history (not to be confused with its actual damning acts of rape, murder and theft from days and years past), stating that they would end all aid and out-reach services to the Homeless, Poor Families and Orphans should the equal marriage bill of D.C. pass into legislation. True enough, thus far, this is only a threat, but this threat would, initially, negatively impact an estimated 68 thousand people who depend upon the support of this organization for their basic survival. What an idiotic display of power! These simpletons just can’t generate enough negative publicity for their own small-minded, fickle institution - what could such a threat really mean? This tax-exempt organization, which claims to have its foundation in the virtues of love, charity and good will, is threatening the defenseless, the hungry, the poor, the young and old and the psychically and mentally ill from the most basic and deserving necessities, which are food and shelter- all simply because it doesn’t like the fact that marriage equality will be provided for citizens of the District of Columbia. In response to the Church’s threat, I say: Go! And don’t let the door hit you in the ass. Pack up and walk away from the lives who have come to depend upon the services you have initiated through the veil of charity; please, leave, and let the District of Columbia and other non-biased, non-prejudice institutions who truly want to provide charitable services freely distribute aid to all, regardless of beliefs, sexual preference, race, age or any other number of human characteristics. And if I were Mayor of DC, I would take even further steps to be sure the Church truly understood the consequences of these ridiculous, prejudices threats.

Simply out of desire to continue my banter, I'll share my post at Towleroad: "Holy Prada Pope shoes! Since these self-righteous, self-serving imbeciles couldn’t muster enough prejudice sway from within their own to prevent a civil right from a group of people they ironically (ironic because half of them are big MOs themselves) hate, they threaten the legislative members of DC with the only card left: foregoing the assistance programs they helped establish for an entire group of defenseless people, the poor and the needy. Interesting, how history does, indeed, repeat itself – you conceited, mind-mending wizards. If this threat and the other 2000 years of chilling history don’t provide an accurate portrayal of the Catholic Church, I’m not sure what else America needs as evidence of the hateful, revengeful and oppressive nature of these sexually repressed and mentally disturbed individuals in collars and capes."

Now, is the time to demand liberty from this damning empire, America. Now, is the time for the other religious institutions and Christian sects, like the American Episcopalians, to stand up and show who they are. Which begs another question, where are they? Why aren’t they all standing up and defending these people?