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Category Archives: Alaska politics
Prevo's devil masks
Jerry Prevo’s 1985 “devil costume debacle” illustrates that it’s not only against homosexuals that Prevo is willing to throw up red herrings, deceptions, and outright lies. Continue reading
Prevo's red herrings
There’s no doubt that the Anchorage Baptist Temple’s Jerry Prevo has followed Jesus’ instruction to the fishermen Simon Peter and Andrew to become a fisher of men. But evidence suggests he also excels as a fisher of red herrings, especially when it comes to his opposition to equal rights for lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, and transfolk.
Sermon (a poem)
“I take as my text the Book of Job — / for are we not like him, innocent, / suffering, crying out for justice? / are we not like him, each of us / surrounded by these righteous, / these pious friends who so love us, / who console us with false accusations, who comfort us with lies?”
Equality Works fundraiser
Usually Friday nights for me are home nights. After all, that’s the night “Battlestar Galactica” is on! Except that… “Battlestar Galactica” is over [sigh]. But [brightening up] at least I have the DVDs! Okay, well, that’s the night “Dollhouse” is … Continue reading
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Tagged Alaska politics, Anchorage, Anchorage ordinance 2009-64, Equality Works, lgbtq
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Listening to Eddie
Yesterday, in between finding myself in front of a TV camera at lunchtime & watching the results in the evening, I listened in on Eddie Burke’s talk radio show on KBYR 700-AM. I’d heard Mr. Burke would be devoting his … Continue reading
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Tagged ACLU, Anchorage, Anchorage Assembly, Anchorage ordinance 2009-64, Eddie Burke, Jeff Mittman, Jim Minnery, lgbtq
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Channel 11 interview, part 2 (the full story)
Once upon a time I was a probationary employee of the Book Cache at Sears Mall. And then they discovered I was… [gasp]… a lesbian!
Posted in Alaska politics, Ordinance
Tagged Anchorage, Anchorage ordinance 2009-64, Identity Reports, lgbtq, Melz history, One in 10
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Channel 11 interview, part 1 (the video)
It was a surprise to me: around 10:30 or so this morning I got a call at work, on my direct line, from someone identifying himself as a reporter. I’m not entirely unused to getting calls from reporters — faculty … Continue reading
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Tagged Alaska politics, Anchorage, Anchorage ordinance 2009-64, KTVA Channel 11 News, lgbtq, politics
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The noise begins
The Anchorage Daily News has a story by Megan Holland on the proposed equal rights ordinance: “Assembly to consider gay rights ordinance — Discrimination ban: Proposal would also cover veterans; Rev. Prevo plans fight” No big surprise that Jerry Prevo … Continue reading
Against discrimination in Anchorage
Anchorage Assemblymember Patrick Flynn posted on his blog this morning on Sunday that an ordinance to bar discrimination based upon sexual orientation or veteran’s status in the Municipality of Anchorage would be introduced at tonight’s Anchorage Assembly meeting. Per Mr. … Continue reading
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Tagged Anchorage, Anchorage Assembly, Anchorage ordinance 2009-64, lgbtq, Patrick Flynn, politics, Wayne Anthony Ross (WAR)
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Same-sex marriage: A personal history
Good news from Maine Wednesday: its legislature passed, & its governor signed, a law making it legal for same-sex couples to marry. This makes Maine the 5th state in the U.S., after Massachusetts, Connecticut, Vermont, & Iowa, to grant the … Continue reading