Would You Hit It ... Which Hemsworth Would You Hit?

Our newest contestants, brothers in hotness. So, you can only have one ... Which Hemsworth do you choose?

Liam, up top there, or Chris?

Remember, just one ....

I Didn't Say It ...

Andy Cohen, Bravo TV bigwig, on the gossip that he’s engaged to NHL star and LGBT ally Sean Avery.

"Dude, Sean Avery is straight. Do you understand that? So a gay guy and a straight guy should be able to be friends without you asking me if we're engaged, right? Very, very straight. Listen, I'd be happy if Sean and I were bangin ... but it's not [happening]."

I’d be happy to be banging Sean.

Just sayin’.

Joe Biden, on LGBT rights and his marriage equality stance:

“A lot of people criticized me for speaking out, not long ago, about gay marriage. I could not remain silent any more. It's time we stopped talking. It’s the civil rights of our day. It’s the issue of our day … That’s why the president eliminated DOMA, Don't Ask, Dont' Tell. That's why he came out against this notion that marriage can somehow be recognized in one state and denied in another. And when it comes to the rights of — you know the president's phrase, and I'll paraphrase this slightly — that everybody in America should have the dignity to choose who they love and marry who they choose. He believes that but not just because it's a human right because it's about treating everyone with dignity."

Word.

And once again, thanks Joe.

John Nienstedt, Minneapolis Archbishop, on the Devil and The Gays:

"Today, many evil forces have set their sights on the dissolution of marriage and the debasing of family life. Sodomy, Sodomy, abortion, contraception, pornography, the redefinition of marriage, and the denial of objective truth are just some of the forces threatening the stability of our civilization. The source of these machinations is none other than the Father of Lies. Satan knows all too well the value that the family contributes to the fabric of a good solid society, as well as the future of God's work on earth."

Funny, he doesn't blame Satan for Catholic priests f**king little boys and girls.

Elton John, on Lady Gaga, Lindsay Lohan, Miley Cyrus and Michael Jackson:

 “I’d like to be able to talk to [Lady Gaga] right now, but I can’t get through to her. And there are times when you have to listen. When your persona begins to take over your music and becomes more important, you enter a dangerous place. Once you have people around you who don’t question you, you’re in a dangerous place.

…

“[Lindsay Lohan] was someone with a successful career and her parents completely f—ed her up. The dad was in jail and the mum was doing coke with her. Great!” 

…

I see a meltdown waiting to happen … And [Miley’s] so young! But she’s got two records in the top 20, so who is going to stop her?

…

“I was in my dressing room in Las Vegas when they announced that Michael Jackson was playing 50 dates at the O2. I turned to my agent and said: ‘He won’t do a single one of those.’ I could tell you he was going to die. He’d been doing drugs for so long, he’d been a mess for so long – and I’ve known Michael since he was 12 or 13 – that it was never going to happen. Everyone was saying it was going to be great and I was saying: ‘Hello? Are you looking at the real thing here?’” 

Elton does love to dish; I’ll give him that. And he’s right about Gaga; it’s less important what she sings and more important what she wears. As for Lohan, maybe—if rumors are true—she’s keeping her distance from her parents and that would be good. Miley? She’s making record companies a lot of money so they’ll continue to let her do and say and wear, or not wear, whatever she wants as long as the cash registers ring. As for Michael, I think we all knew that concert tour would never happen, even if we didn’t know it was because he was going to die.

Gwyneth Paltrow, on turning 41 and how, because her husband Chris Martin threw her so many parties last year, she’ll celebrate this year:

"This year it's Chick-fil-A. That's it."

Wow. 

Paltrow, who portrays herself as some sort of Vegan Goddess, and inspirer of regular people, will eat Chick-fil-A?

No wonder The Gays are done with her.

Tim Gunn, on never coming out to his parents:

"It was a very different time. It was a very different era. And I had a lot of fears about being gay, about what that actually meant. And I had already presented my family with a lot of disappointments and I didn't feel that I wanted to present them with yet this. It's very funny, though. My mother died two years ago. And I think she eventually figured out my sexuality, but we never talked about it. And my father was gone long before. We never once talked about it.”

It certainly was a different time, and Gunn’s parents were from a time before that.

Still, I feel sad he couldn’t be his whole self to his parents.

Robert Redford, coming out for marriage equality at an event in Utah:

"I'm here for the same reason you are – equal rights for all. Like you, I believe there's no place in our world for discrimination. None. I think it is un-American. If we change discriminatory laws in Utah, it sets a benchmark for people in other states; it allows people to see what can be done."

The march goes on … and Redford has stepped up.

John Hawkins, former South Carolina State Senator who led the charge in our state to amend the constitution to ban same-sex marriage, on now coming out for marriage equality:
"I was wrong about pursing the marriage amendment. I wish I hadn't been so strident against it....I'm really hoping that people are going to walk away from this with a little bit of healing...It would be great if everyone who stood against us in the Senate said, 'We were wrong; In fact, you really do deserve equal rights.'"

While it would have been nice to have him change his stance while still a senator, it's refreshing to see yet another politician realize that now it is the for full marriage equality.

Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, the Democratic congressman from Flroida, on teh GOP and the Tea party: 
"The civil war that has been raging within the Republican Party is over. And now that the House has voted to shut down the government unless Obamacare is defunded, it's official: The Tea Party has won — the far right is calling the shots."

Say goodbye to any form of bipartisanship when it comes to the 'baggers. The party that doesn't listen is running the show over there.

Happy Birthday Mom

*this is a repost from 2009.

Today is my Mother's birthday. She would have been 76 if...........I remember many things about my Mom.

The Mom who baked things for school.
The Mom who made the best Clam Chowder on rainy winter days.
The Mom who painted.
The Mom who laughed.
The Mom who loved you no matter what.
The Mom who, as soon as Carlos and I moved in together, would introduce him as her son-in-law.
The Mom who was married to my Dad for over 50 years.
The Mom who was a Nurse.
The Mom who loved to travel.
The Mom who taught me to love books.

I love my Mom.
I miss my Mom.

Random Musings

So, in another pathetic, and yet sadly not a last ditch, effort to stop Obamacare the GOP has said it will shut down the government if they don’t get their way.

I say, Shut it down, vote the motherfuckers out. Tell the GOP that they are not there to process their racist agenda against the president they are there to work for us. And they haven’t done One.Single.Thing. since Obama took office because all they wanna do is stop him.

That’s the GOP. Vote.Them.Out.

Maybe marriage equality will come to New Jersey after all.

It seems that two Republicans, Holly Schepisi and Declan O’Scanlon, and two Democrats, Wayne DeAngelo and Gabriela Mosquera, have announced that they will vote to override Governor Chris Christie's 2012 veto of the marriage equality bill.

And O’Scanlon believes there might be more:

“The narrative that the governor strong-arms Republicans in the Legislature is false. I think you’ll see some other folks vote for it, but I don’t know exactly how many at this point. We’re some time away from that vote actually happening."

Hopefully the New Jersey GOP will not take a page from the Washington GOP and they’ll actually do something.

If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it half a billion times — no exaggeration — Grampa John McCain needs to retire already, head back to Arizona, park his wrinkled ass on the front porch and bark at the neighbor kids to get off his lawn.

Seriously, with everything happening in this country, and around the world, John McCain was most pissy about the night the LA Dodgers bested the Arizona Diamondbacks they celebrated by diving into the stadium pool. And this got McCain’s knickers — and you just know he’s wearin’ knickers — in a twist. He instantly Tweeted out:

Now, some politicos let their staffs do the Tweeting for them, but not Gramps McCain. This was all him and apparently it was the most pressing issue of the day for him.

The most unfortunate outcome is that the Dodgers players appeared to keep a more level head than the senior senator from Arizona, except on Twitter, though, where Dodger Brian Wilson Tweeted his response:

Suh-nap. Of course, McCain didn’t respond that day because they were serving applesauce in the Senate cafeteria and then it was time for his nap.

Dexter finished up it series run last Sunday night. I'm ambivalent about the ending — as happens every time a favorite series ends — feeling both glad and sad. He may have been a serial killer, but he was one of the good guys.

We also watched the finale of Devious Maids AKA Desperate Housewives If the Housewives Were Maids. Lifetime promised an OMG ending; seriously, they said I'd go OMG at the ending when all I said was Really? That's it? And the last episode of Broadchurch on BBCAmerica; I love a good British copper show and this one didn’t disappoint.

Now for some new shows:

Loved The Blacklist. James Spader is oily. That's all. Hated Mom. I should have known it would suck when I saw it was created by Chuck '2.5 Men' Lorre. Cheese from start to finish.

I liked Trophy Wife because at least the premiere had some irreverent humor. I loathed Lucky 7 which is about a bunch of stereotypes — though thankfully not one gay stereotype in the bunch — who with the Lottery. Yawnery.

Revolution is back. Loved it. Law & Order: SVU; I'm a huuuge fan. Modern Family — let’s just say Cam and Mitchell changing the tire was sweet ... in case you haven't yet seen it. Nashville? Hunks. Yes.

What are you watching?

Okay, for a long time now I have refused to donate used goods to the Salvation Army or drop any loose change into one of their holiday buckets because of their anti-gay stance, but this is just over the line.

While the Salvation Army has expressed their, um, distaste for the LGBT community in the past, citing their Christian beliefs — because it is impossible to be Christian and gay, you know — but recently Major Andrew Craibe, a Salvation Army Media Relations Director, went on public radio to discuss a call by LGBT parents for a boycott them for their anti-gay policies and beliefs. He said that LGBTQ parents should be put to death as the bible instructs and when radio host Serena Ryan continued the questioning it went like this:

Ryan: According to the Salvation Army, gay parents deserve death. How do you respond to that, as part of your doctrine?”

Craibe: Well, that’s a part of our belief system.”

Ryan: So they should die.”

Craibe: You know, we have an alignment to the Scriptures, but that’s our belief.

So, um, yeah, think about that the next time you have old clothes to donate or the next time one of their obnoxious bell-ringers is outside the grocery store asking for money.

Let ‘em know how you feel about their stance that gay parents deserve to be murdered.

I don't like Elton John saying he'll go to Russia because The Gays want to hear him. I think he likes the attention he's getting, he has a new album to promote, and he likes the dough.

It';s like when he sang at one of Rush Limbaugh's weddings and said maybe it might change Limbaugh's mind about marriage equality; all it turned out to be was  payday for Elton.

Take a note from a real gay man, Cher, and Just say No!

Good news, bad news.

The Berkeley City Council is set to vote on a proposal to close their domestic partner registry, now that same-sex marriage is allowed in California.

Gay District 2 Councilman Darryl Moore has placed a resolution on the council's October 1 agenda that would direct the city manager to close the registry October 11, twenty-two years after the registry was first launched:

"I am happy to say that the City of Berkeley's domestic partnership registry is obsolete. With the adoption of marriage equality in the state of California, we no longer need it, and on the 22nd anniversary of the registry being established, we are now able to officially close it in celebration of Marriage Equality Day."

Moore is also proposing that the October 11 celebration be marked by marriages conducted at Berkeley City Hall from 6 to 8 p.m.

It’s sad that the people who worked there might be out of a job, but it’s nice to see this relic of the olden times when inequality existed in California be shut down.

Kasey Caron Can't Be Homecoming King Because She Was Assigned Male Gender At Birth

Why it seemed like only a minute ago that I posted about Cassidy Lynn Campbell becoming perhaps the first transgender homecoming queen in US history out there in California—see that post HERE. I loved that story, seeing it for what it was, a huge shift, in at least one spot, in the attitudes toward transgender people. Of course, on the other side of the country, in Pennsylvania to be exact, the attitudes haven’t shifted.

The Richland School Board, in western Pennsylvania has ruled that Kasey Caron — born female, though he now identifies as male — cannot run for homecoming king, and they put his name on the ballot as homecoming queen.

School Board attorney Timothy Leventry says Pennsylvania law — an outdated law that needs to change — requires a person born female to have a physician certify a sex change operation and have their birth certificate legally changed to be considered male. As a result, the Richland board refused to recognize Kasey as a boy — even though his family, friends, classmates and teachers refer to Kasey as 'him.' A young man, in the eyes of everyone, but the school board, a third party, declares that he isn’t male, but female.

Kasey was born with polycystic ovary syndrome, a condition that leads to a hormone imbalance where the ovaries make more male hormones than normal; he has been subjected to the question ‘Are you a boy or a girl?’ all of his life, but all through his high school years he has identified as male. Even his teachers and classmates see him as male. 

Earlier this year, a guidance counselor suggested he enter his name for homecoming king, and Kasey felt certain the school would accept his gender identity, but on the day the student body was scheduled to vote for the homecoming court, administrators told Caron that they were required to list him, him, on the female ballot, because he is legally identified as female on his driver's license.

Kasey’s name was on the female ballot, but students voted him onto the homecoming court and then, calling Caron’s a 'unique situation' school administrators said he could go to the homecoming parade with a date of his choice, rather than automatically pairing him with another male student running for homecoming king.  

How big of them … okay, it was something, something small, but something.

Kasey, who plans to clinically transition once he turns 18, is disappointed that the school board didn't immediately rule on the request, but he remains hopeful.

“I thought they were going to have a change of heart. I am still hoping for one.”

Kathy Caron has said she will continue to support Kasey:

"I love my son, and my son is the most awesome. I couldn't ask for anything better."

My son; that says it all.

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Architecture Wednesday: Mandeville Canyon

Mandeville Canyon is located in Brentwood, California and brings to mind the old Pueblo homes of the Southwest, and even the cliff houses built by Native Americans in Arizona and New Mexico.

The rust-colored walls instantly give this home a warm effect, and its open plan and plentiful windows allow nature to join the interior, to capture the light and play with it. A horse ranch, too, it's a livable romantic blend of contemporary and Southwestern architectural sensibilities, originally created for two artists, husband and wife; one an architect turned director, another, a writer and sommelier. 

Architecture, movies and wine; three of my favorite things!

And the couple wanted a home to capture two of their favorite places: a restoration in Italy and a loft in New York City. He wanted contemporary, she longed for romantic, so the plan called for open, cleanly outlined spaces that flowed one into another. Thick, clay colored walls with many deep portals create sculptures of light in constant variation. In addition, the pool meets the edge of the house at a large expanse of glass, producing a dazzling effect indoors and out. 

Peaceful and beautiful, in the midst of Los Angeles.

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Being Gay Is A Choice, Just Like Carrying A Gun Into Starbucks

I saw this at Maybe its Just me--and if you aren't reading that blog then, why aren't you reading that blog--and I needed a good rant. 

Listen to this asshat who, as an ALLEGED law school graduate should try to get hired on by the NRA. His argument is as stupid, as lame, as moronic, as homophobic, as outdated, as any put forth by the National Rifle Association.

Listen:


Let me explain this to you, you gun-toting, uneducated fool.

Being gay is an innate part of me; I was, and I hate that i sound like I'm quoting Gaga, born this way. And for you to suggest that being born gay is the same as someone who chooses, CHOOSES, to carry a weapon into a coffee shop is the height of stupidity.

You chose to carry a gun and think, wrongly, that the 2nd Amendment allows you to toe it around like Berkin bag of honor wherever you go. It doesn't; it's a choice.

Being gay is not a choice; being black is not a  choice. There is no such thing as gayness, like there is no such thing as blackness. But, being pro-gun, and stupid, even if you went to law school, and having access to a YouTube account to share your stupidity, is a choice.

Who needs a gun with a latte? Seriously.

I guess the person why says, with an ALLEGED straight face, that his gun is part of his lifestyle, i think it's more part of your death style, because, remember this, anyone who carries a gun intends to use it.

Yes, they do. Think about it; you don't carry a gun for show, like a fancy phone or a new watch; you carry a phone to make and receive calls and annoy people on trains; you carry  a watch to tell time; you carry a gun to shoot someone if the situation arises, and I, for one, would like to be able to have a cup of coffee without someone like this fool parading his lifestyle choice in front of me in line.

The Coach Comes Out

I’ve always said that being in the closet about anything — and that means lying about any aspect of your life — is a terrible thing with which to live. Those closeted, in denial, people tend to make decisions based on their lies, their closets, and live to regret them. Like the gay man, or woman, who marries, heterosexually speaking, because they think it’s expected, it’s what they should do, it’ll keep their secret safe. It doesn’t always work out like that and Micah Porter is a shining example.

Porter lived the textbook life; good student, great athlete; he had a wife, two children, a job he loved; he was a four-time Colorado state champion head coach for cross-country and track & field, and had won awards for excellence in teaching, including being named Teacher of the Year. He was also a closeted gay man, suffering depression as a result of his secret. He sought counseling to figure out what was wrong and medicated himself to deal with his decisions.

"I knew why I was depressed. I knew it was because of my sexuality. I felt incredibly guilty for continuing to have the feelings while being married. I felt like a fraud."

And he didn’t like that feeling, of not being his true self; he was almost forty and he’d lived a life that wasn’t the one he wanted, that wasn’t the one he’d hoped for; a life that wasn’t really his. And even though he’d always dated women, and even though he married a woman and fathered two children, Micah Porter knew he wasn’t being honest about himself. And in 2009, he told his wife that he had an idea about why he was depressed, where it was coming from, and why.

"I'm gay."

Her reaction was really the typical one; silence, followed by disbelief and concern, anger and hurt. She had spent years married to this man and now, suddenly, he was telling her he was gay. It took time, but she began to understand that Micah was, at last, being truthful, and over the course of several months, the couple talked to their children about their father’s sexual orientation, separated and finally divorced.

"It was hard to see her in pain because of that. In many ways, the guilt I'd been harboring for years for being gay was replaced by the guilt of hurting her."

And everything changed; Micah Porter was a single dad, living in an apartment and struggling to make ends meet. But for the first time in his life, Porter was himself, and now he felt that same need to tell other people. And, even though he was a highly respected track and field coach, and an excellent teacher, Porter wondered what life, and his work, might be like if he told his employer, his co-workers, and if he could, or even should, tell his students, and his team that he was gay.

He’d gotten a mixed response from the administration when came out as gay to them in 2010. While there was never a doubt that he could keep his job, continue teaching and coaching, he was actually advised not to go into the boys’ locker room anymore; if he needed something from the locker room, he should have an assistant coach take care of it.

Now, the administration said their ‘advice’ had nothing to do with any concern about Porter’s behavior, but rather from the potential for false accusations that might be leveled at him; it was feared that a parent or student might use Porter's sexual orientation against him by falsely accusing him of improprieties in the locker room. It was decided that Micah Porter would stay away from the locker room, and that, because of that new rule, he would have to change from his teacher clothes to his coaching uniform in a school bathroom.

"Every day I have to go into a bathroom to change. It's a reminder that I'm a second-class citizen in a school I've given so much to."

It was also suggested that he keep the news of his sexual orientation to himself; to basically stay in the closet that had, for years, fed his depression. Although some co-workers knew he was gay, especially after the divorce, no one thought he should tell his students; they did not want his team to know.

"We have a general rule that our teachers and coaches don't discuss their personal lives with their students or athletes. The kids don't want to hear about your personal life, and neither do the parents. They just want you to coach or teach their child. … I support Micah 150%. I always have and I always will. I don't have a bad word to say about the guy. He's a great coach, he's a great teacher."—Jerry McWhorter, the school athletic director

And yet, as happens when you try to keep a secret, the news that maybe Coach Porter was gay began to come out. See, Micah Porter, now free to live his life the way he wanted, began dating another man, Brandan Rader, whom he had met when Radar gave a speech at another school encouraging LGBT students to accept their sexual orientation.

Micah Porter asked Rader to lunch, and they have been together since. And, as couples are apt to do, they went about their lives together; they walked around town together, shopped together, dined together; with the coach, the recently divorced coach, being seen out and about in the company of the same man for a couple of years, people began to talk. And the talk trickled down to the student body; in fact, Micah’s daughter, now a freshman at the University of Denver, was asked by a runner if her dad was gay; the basketball coach was asked by his team about if Porter was gay.

"When people ask, I tell them. My closest friends at school know, and I tell them they can tell whomever they want. It's a major part of who I am as a person, but it's not the defining part. I'm a coach, I'm a teacher, I'm a dad, I'm Brandan's partner. I happen to be gay, but it's not something I need to put on a billboard."

And yet, because of the advice from the administration, Porter hadn’t said a word about it to his team, and he believed that maybe coming out to them wasn’t a good idea, even though he wanted to be open out his sexual orientation.

When a private high school tried to recruit him to be their new cross-country coach, Porter wondered that, if he took the job, they could fire him for being gay. He spoke to a lawyer who said he should tell the leaders at this Christian school that he was gay, hoping it would prevent problems down the road. His plan worked; he never heard from the school again.

And so, last week, against the advice of the school the administration, and the athletic director, Micah Porter decided to come out. He’d wanted to take a proactive role in making the school a more welcoming place for LGBT students and since almost the entire staff knows he’s gay, and with counselors asking him to talk to students struggling with coming out, the time was right.

"Ultimately, I need to take charge of the decision. That's been a change in personality for me since I came out. I'm not going to let others decide how I should embrace who I am as a person. I let that happen for too long in my life."

Porter called his team together before practice and told them he had some news. He let them know that an article about him would be coming out — the source for this post, in OutSports — and that the article discussed him being gay.

He was received by silence. A few seconds later, one of the team leaders stood up, shook his hand, told him it didn't matter; then he asked about practice. The rest of the team laced up their shoes and followed suit.

"It was a positive moment for me and for them as young men and for us as a young team. After all that worry, it was a non-issue for them."

And despite his concerns, Jerry McWhorter hasn’t had one complaint from the team, or any parents, about Micah Porter being gay.

"I wake up every day excited about life and my job and my relationship with Brandan. We bought a house together. We're building a life together. There are parts of my life I hope to repair, but I take better care of myself, I have so much more confidence than I ever have in my life. For the first time in a long time, I've had people tell me I look happy. For the first time in a long time, I am."

As I said, coming out of the closet isn’t just telling those around us that we’re gay; it’s also telling ourselves, and realizing that we’re okay, and that we deserve happiness, just like anyone else.

The Pope: My Two Cents

So, I waited a bit while the world rejoiced, or complained, or shrugged, after Pope Francis made his ALLEGEDLY pro-LGBT statements; he wants The church to be less focused on one issue, like abortion, or The Gays, and be more focused on, well, everything else, I guess. I mean, some folks played it like he was the second coming of Liza or Bette, or for those younger gays, Britney and Gaga with his, um, I kinda like The Gays speech. But I waited, because, even though he is the Catholic Church and the leader of The Church, I didn’t think The Church would suddenly embrace his little remarks, and they didn’t fail me.

Let’s be clear: the Catholic Church, no matter what the Pope says, is still anti-LGBT; they are still anti-marriage equality; they are still anti-contraception; they are still anti-condom, even if the use of condoms can halt the spread of HIV. So, nothing’s changed. But then why are so many rejoicing? His little ‘Can’t we all get along’ speech was not earth shattering, because it was meaningless.  

The next day, right after telling his minions to be less one issue oriented, he reiterated the Church’s stance against abortion. It was like he meant, let’s be less focused on one issue … today; tomorrow we’ll go back to being backwards.

Here’s what he said about The Gays:

“A person once asked me, in a provocative manner, if I approved of homosexuality. I replied with another question: ‘Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?’ We must always consider the person.”

Which, loosely translated, means, love the sinner, hate the sin, also known as the same spiel they’ve been selling for years.

Now, is it nice that the Pope mentioned us without also using the words ‘damned to the fiery pits of hell’? Yeah, that was nice, but anyone who thinks that the Catholic Church has suddenly become a rainbow flag waving, feather boa wearing, Gay Pride marching ally to this community is sadly mistaken.

The Pope is just covering his bases; with membership in the Catholic Church, in all churches, dwindling faster than Congress’ approval ratings, he’s apt to say whatever he can to make the Church seem forgiving and accepting and open. They aren’t; not yet and not by a long shot. And if you need any more proof, how about this:

In Melbourne, Australia, dissident priest Greg Reynolds has been both defrocked and excommunicated because he has come out in support of female priests and The Gays. And this excommunication order did not come from the Melbourne Archdiocese, but rather it came directly from the Vatican.

The excommunication document — written in Latin and giving no reason for the excommunication — was dated May 31, meaning it comes under the authority of Pope Francis; the same Pope who wants the Church to be less ‘rule-obsessed’ about The Gays.

Father Reynolds, who had resigned his priesthood in 2011m and then founded the Inclusive Catholics, had expected to be defrocked, but not excommunicated, but says it makes no difference to his ministry:

“In times past excommunication was a huge thing, but today the hierarchy have lost such trust and respect. … I've come to this position because I've followed my conscience on women's ordination and gay marriage.''

So, let’s keep it real; Father Reynolds is, or was, what the Catholic Church could become if they ever decided to live with the rest of us in this century, but the Pope is still a mouthpiece, spewing nonsense about the church being less binding when it comes to its rules on such subjects like gays, same-sex marriage, and abortion and contraception. The same Pope who cut off a priest who stood up for women and The Gays.

Nothing’s changed. It’s all a smokescreen; a white smokescreen.