I've been writing this page for a long time (at least as far as the WWW is concerned), and have voiced my opinions on everything from politics to parenting, Sexual preferences to software preferences. In general, I don't name specific people, unless they're in the public eye, and subject to public ridicule. For instance, I routinely lambast Charleton Heston for becoming a toadie for the gun nuts -- but did not name, or even offer an email address to the goofball who called me a moron because my opinions weren't worded the way he wanted them (even though they were essentially the same). I do this, in an attempt to protect myself from the lawsuit happy society we now live in. For instance, if I were to call Scooter P. Nesbit a racist, intolerant homophobe -- because he refers to someone by their actual genetic heritage, and uses the designation Black to refer to African-Americans, and because he thinks homosexuality is wrong, and people who are practicing homosexuals claiming to be God Fearing Christians are liars -- if I were to do that he might decide to sue me, my internet provider, and anyone else he thinks he can get money from. Dr. Laura Schlessinger routinely says that homosexual behavior damages family relationships, and is not what God intended for humanity -- and has brought down the wrath of GLAAD as a result. And of course, no one is supporting her (except me) because they don't want to be considered intolerant of 'alternative lifestyles'. First of all, why are they called GLAAD? Whenever I see one of them on TV they're either yelling vile filth at people who don't agree with them, or earnestly claiming in press conferences that it's the intolerant executives at ABC that caused my sitcom to fail, and not the fact that it stopped being funny long ago. For supposedly being only 10% of the population, they seem to have an awful lot of power over the national media. But they have a right to say that -- even though they would rather the folks who disagree with them not have the same right. There's a move in Oregon to try to keep the teaching of 'alternative lifestyles' out of public schools -- and the truth of the matter is, I hope it succeeds. And it's unfortunatley not for the best of reasons -- I disagree with homosexuality, sure -- but my thinking is if the kids can't pray in school, then then GLAAD shouldn't get the right to speak out in schools either. Tit for tat. Like I said, not good -- but at least fair.
But nobody ever said life was fair.