"Milk" does a body good.

Saw "Milk" recently starring Sean Penn - the story of Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man elected to a public office in California in 1976 as a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. He was murdered, along with San Fran mayor George Moscone, in 1978 by another board supervisor, Dan White, who had just resigned. White was tried, did time and was paroled in 1984. He committed suicide in 1988. Good for Dan.

I have one criticism - Diego Luna, who played Milk's lover, Jack Lira, was horrible - particularly in his opening scene with Penn. I mean, that scene was so terrible that I couldn't get it out of my mind for the rest of the film and anything that Luna did afterwards was meaningless to me. Plus, his character didn't really add anything to the plot. I would've just written him out of the story.

Other than that, I enjoyed the movie thoroughly. If you're one who believes that gays'(?) have less rights than you or I do simply because of their sexual preference, perhaps this movie will make you think differently. No, I'm not saying that because I'm a moderate with many liberal stances (such as gay rights). Or that I have gay friends in the theater. Or that I'm a heterosexual living in California and my brain's been warped by liberal California viewpoints.

I say this because a gay person IS A PERSON, due the same rights as you and I. Theoretically, you can not cherry pick what rights a gay man (or woman) is allowed to have because they're gay (unfortunately, the government doesn't agree). And please don't preach to me those

religious tried-and-true-and-tired arguments from the Old Testament. I've heard them and they're nothing but crutches for the frightened and ignorant.

In case you're blinded by your own zealousness for what you think God deems appropriate behavior by men and woman on Earth, remember this: Jesus kept company with whores, thieves and lepers. He said, "love one another as I have loved you".

How about loving just a little more come 2009, huh?

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California's Prop 8 Initiative: Misleading Ad Campaign is Obsolutely Unacceptable!

Proposition 8 is an initiative measure on the 2008 California General Election ballot titled Eliminates Right of Same-Sex Couples to Marry. If passed, the proposition would "change the California Constitution to eliminate the right of same-sex couples to marry in California." Here's a condensed version of the title and summary:

ELIMINATES RIGHT OF SAME-SEX COUPLES TO MARRY. INITIATIVE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT. Changes the California Constitution to eliminate the right of same-sex couples to marry in California. Provides that only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California. Fiscal Impact: Over next few years, potential revenue loss, mainly sales taxes, totaling in the several tens of millions of dollars, to state and local governments. In the long run, likely little fiscal impact on state and local governments.

Forget about whether you're for or against this imitative (I'm against it by the way). My immediate concern is with the advertising campaign IN FAVOR of Prop 8. While watching football yesterday, I saw an ad discussing the "errors" of teaching same-sex unions in our schools and I sent a text to my Republican cousin, Scott, saying I'm voting against it. Watch the ad here.

The basic Prop 8 initiative that will be on the ballot has NOTHING to do with the issue of teaching traditional or same-sex marriages. As you read above, it's about whether or not California will recognize same-sex unions as legal marriages. The fact that proponents of Prop 8 are running advertisements shifting the focus to teaching our children in the school system is a misrepresentation of the basic initiative; it's disgraceful. It's misleading. It should be illegal. Why don't Prop 8 proponents start running ads that say your property values will go down once a gay couple moves in next door? Or that this will encourage gay couples to adopt more children, thus, poisoning the minds of more young children?

I don't like to be lied to. I'm disgusted. I need to bitch at someone.

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