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THE THOUGHTS AND OPINIONS OF A BUDDHIST AMONG BAPTISTS
• Reverend Father Antonio Hernández, O.M.D., A.B.F.
Founder of the Independent Order of American Buddhist Fathers

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WE ARE FAMILY - SOME MORE SO THAN OTHERS • Rev. Dr. Antonio Hernández It was all over the news on the 21st of last month: the fellow who wrote the disco hit "We Are Family", was defending a new children's video version of his song. The fellow's name escapes me, which I regret because I admire him. The video, to debut on the Disney channel among a few others, celebrates diversity by employing the most popular kids' cartoon characters, including Spongebob Squarepants (one of my personal favorites of all time, thank you very much).

This great and prominent man had to defend the new work, because conservatives everywhere are hurling homophobic accusations, at what appears to be a charming children's video. The American neo-Nazi group that claims to be the defender of family (a group so hideous that I will never publish its real name) is bulwarking the silly ban on the still-unseen video. This group, founded/lead by a "former homosexual who is now married and has children"*, claims that the video is promoting a homosexual lifestyle.
*[according to ABC's "Good Morning America" broadcast, 21 January 2005]
For God's sake, why didn't this man just start by quitting smoking or something!

The composer of "We Are Family" is a supporter of a diversity-celebrating website. I happen to know its location: www.wearefamilyfoundation.org. The innocent, educational and progressive website, which was also featured on the news, joins the new kids' video in the pillory, on the charge of gay shenanigans. It would be nice to have a conservative's list of where all the gay ribaldry is allegedly occurring; then we could all make book on what they will try to ban next. I think it's easy enough to guess now, though.

Several things pop into my memory when I think about this fresh and alarming news. Black segregation and its justification. Senator Joe McCarthy the clam-digger. J. Edgar Hoover referring to the pictures drawn by Robert Kennedy's children as "obscene". The Salem witch hunts. The Holocaust. Believe me, I'm not running dry, just boiling angry. I WANT IT ALL TO END NOW.

We often put words into the mouths of babes. We often project evil thoughts from our heads into theirs. My grandmother used to say that such people are the true perpetrators of evil at its most pure. Certainly we must deal with pedophiles and rapists, murderers and worse. When I was a law enforcement officer, I escorted child-rapers and killers to and from jail. Having stood next to some of the ugliest monsters on earth, I can't be sure if I want to laugh or cry about all this homophobic nonsense.

Reverend... oh, I'm sorry... President Bush isn't helping. With his perpetual bible-thumping, prayers, scriptural bully pulpit and Methodist-style Southern Christian filibustering of the nation, he's always sniffing around for a way to steal more American rights. The Inaugural, which I watched until I could no longer stand the nausea, is an affront to the world. That's funny; perhaps I'm deliriously angry; but it somehow seems funny that 'the right' wants to take away all our rights. We should be calling them the "wrong wing", not the "right wing". Perhaps I'm running a temperature. I certainly feel I need a doctor. I just hope I won't end in Dr. Mengele's office.
Really, we must ask ourselves why pure-as-the-driven-snow groups and citizens have such filthy minds. Where in a children's music video could there possibly exist an endorsement of HOMOSEXUAL behavior? Or any sexual behavior, for that matter? Are these people salving guilty consciences, or what? First it's the lavender Teletubbie character that was "accused" of being gay. It wasn't enough to accuse Holmes and Watson; it didn't slake the bloodlust when people began talking trash about Batman and Robin. They even said nasty things about the Lone Ranger and Tonto. Now we must suffer this!

I'm just waiting for these ersatz-Christian skinheads to accuse snow cones of being THE gay phallic symbol. That will occur just before they introduce a swastika flag of their very own. It's right around the corner. They've already got their propagandist brain-washing chant: "Hate the sin, love the sinner." They might was well say "final solution".

Long ago I took several oaths- very long ago, but they still drive my existence. I swore to protect and defend the Constitution, to fight for my country, to oppose injustice, and there are other oaths I cannot discuss here. What I am seeing in these boneheaded latter-day Crusaders is precisely the crap I am sworn to fight.
So, with that spirit burning in my heart, I will conclude with a message to all the sanctimonious assholes out there: Prepare yourselves!

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