Thanksgiving Day

OVER at UMRBlog recently, there was a discussion about "communion and the fallibility of man." By coincidence, my favorite gay conservative blogger, Andrew Sullivan, has something to say on a topic of somewhat similar nature, "Cafeteria Theocracy In America." A quotation:

... One critical thing Jesus taught was that controlling the world is not just impossible but inherently sinful. Our task as Christians is to control no one but ourselves and to love all. Our main weapon must always be example, not control.

Moreover, Christianists cannot both assert a fundamental right to economic and personal freedom and yet also oppose that freedom when it means that women can choose if and when to have children, when it means that gay couples can choose to form build strong and admirable relationships and have children, when it means that straight couples can buy and use contraception, etc. The Christianists are engaging in cafeteria theocracy here. Which is why their obsession with gays and avoidance of so much else does indeed bespeak a form of prejudice against a group of people they barely know or understand but nonetheless scapegoat for much broader social ills.

From the old photos file:


Son Rob, stage crew assistant carpenter, with Joan Collins, actress, on the road with "Legends" in 2006.