Another One Bites the Dust....

Well folks, it's happened yet again. Just today, Ken Mehlman (I'm a Mehl Man myself if you look at my last name), President Bush's campaign manager and the former chairman of the Republican National Committee, outed himself and revealed to the world that, yes... he's gay.

It seems ironic that the 43 year old man who fought so hard to keep gay marriage from EVER becoming a reality in this country was going home to a man in his bed at night. And that's just it. 43. The man is 43. Now, I'm not an expert on the subject of coming out, but it seems to me that if I had to keep a secret for 43 years I'd probably go crazy. I can barely keep one for 43 days. Although, really, the question of why he chose to come out after all of his anti-gay accomplishments in Washington is not the biggest question on my mind. Because we all really want the answer to the biggest question of all: How many pink elephants are still in the closet?

Now as we all know, the whole Prop 8 debate is like Anne Heche with its 'I'm out.. I'm in... No I'm out... No I'm back in.." flip-flopping. Just a week after being turned down, it was ordered to be put on hold until December, when new arguments will be heard. So at least until Christmas, there will be no Ho-Ho-Homo weddings.

Today's speech by Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial seems to be stirring up things even more. Beck chose to stand on the same step and even on the same DAY (47th anniversary of the I Have a Dream speech) as MLK did on that fateful day. Although no one seems to know what his speech was meant to accomplish other than "Restoring Honor", and although Beck claims he had no idea he was doing it on the anniversary date, he did say he chose the site of his rally to reflect on the legacy of King, "the man who stood down on those stairs and gave his life for everyone's right to have a dream." (Everyone except the gays of course.)

47 years ago today, African Americans had to ride in the back of the bus to get to that speech. That speech marked a day where a minority of the population said "Enough is enough." And 47 years later, the line "we hold these truths to be self-evident, that ALL men are created equal" has never been more false.

Now I know that my blog usually has a very sarcastic, anti-gay zing to it, but today I'm passing that up, out of sheer frustration and disgust. I don't have the rights of other Americans. I have to get married in a different country and live in a third country other than the U.S. to be with the one I love. And Britney Spears can have an 11 hour marriage in Vegas and Larry King can get 8 divorces. So today, just think about that speech. Watch the video of it I'm posting below. And be grateful for your freedoms and rights. Cause I don't have them. And because I fell in love with who I fell in love with, I may never get them at all.

Oh and Mr. Beck? Go &^*&% yourself.

Watch the speech Here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUP_ISA030c