I would like to be the next Governor of Colorado. Seriously, I really would like to help people out and the only way I could see doing that is getting into one of the highest offices in my own home state. Now, given the fact that I am an atheist Unitarian Universalist male-to-female transsexual, I could probably fit my constituency into a Toyota Prius and running Libertarian would help a few people get out of the back seat. But I could run for governor if I was really wanting to or was the legal age to. Now, does that mean I will win? Probably not, but it would be fun to try to run for governor and see what the opposition could possibly come up with to say against me. That is of course, considering that this blog won’t even ruin my chances of running for office, which it probably will. Continue reading ‘Will I Ever Be Governor, or Will This Blog Ruin It?’
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I haven’t been to my UU church, First Unitarian Society of Denver in weeks. Furthermore, I have not even made an effort to try to go to any of the other UU churches in the Denver metro area (First Universalist, Jefferson Unitarian Church, Open Circle, UU Boulder, et cetra). However, I still identify as a Unitarian Universalist, with all of it’s religious liberalism and freedom to be who I am. I still tell people that even though I am an atheist, I do go to a Unitarian Universalist church and explain why it is that I even go to a house of worship at all, if there is nothing for me to worship. And I make sure to witness and advocate for our uncommon denomination by telling people the good news about our faith (uuvangelism), so why is it that I haven’t gone to church in weeks? Continue reading ‘Haven’t gone to church in weeks, what the hell?’
You know, as I just purchased my new lesbian necklace from Heaven Sent Me, I thought that it would be a nice idea to see about getting a UU chalice necklace as well. I took to the web and found zilch in the way of affordable chalice necklaces and jewelry. I searched eBay and I found absolutely nothing that I would find attractive. I searched Google and I found posts about the UUA’s logo. And that, my friends, is where we are going to start our post today. The discovery of the time when the UUA decided to change their logo to the fuglychalice. Continue reading ‘Thoughts about the UUA’s Chalice Logo’
Sometimes, I wonder what authority I really had to tell people that it was important to forgive the attacker. I mean, it is true that the attacker committed a horribly heinous crime and he got what he deserved, but some people need a little bit more time to grieve. And I believe that the appropriate approach to deal with when I deal with this tragedy or tragedies like this from now on is to meet people where they are at in their pain. I borrow this saying from Arthur Jeon and his book, City Dharma. Basically, the story that he tells in his book to illustrate this concept is one where he is waiting in line at the bank and he sees an old man who is angry as hell, for what reason no one really knows. Arthur tries to offer to help him, with an agenda in mind (to relieve this person’s suffering) and approaches him with this agenda and offers to help him. What happens is that old man tries to splash hot coffee into his face and Arthur immediately backs down. The bank manager comes onto the scene and offers to help him with his problem, meeting him where he is at in the moment. She does have an agenda in mind, but she tries to meet him at the moment. Continue reading ‘Meeting People Where They Are’
Today, I had written posts about the beauty of the gay community and how a young woman was robbed of her constitutional right to freedom from religion by a prejudiced Kentucky civil servant. Now, I am writing about a topic which is even closer to the heart, a very bloody realization of the effects of religious intolerance in this country. Today, I received an e-mail from the Church of the Younger Fellowship about how there was a gunman who attacked people who were worshiping at the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church located in Knoxville, Tennessee. A person, for whatever motivations, who made the conscious decision to take the life of people who were just worshiping at this particular church. This has been blogged about all throughout the UU blogosphere. The attacker was the ex-husband of a parishioner at the church and attacked the members of the church of their religious freedom and diversity. Despite the miles between Knoxville and Denver, just hearing about this attack shocked me to the very core just reading about it. Continue reading ‘My Response to the Attacks at the Tennessee Valley UU Church’