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Compiled By Jack Nichols
Advice to Jerry Falwell
You can't be too vigilant, as I think you proved when you outed the
purple Teletubby, Tinky Winky. I wondered at the time why you didn't also
investigate Snow White and her dwarf love nest. You can't tell me there
wasn't something between that floozie and Sneezy. Doc bunks a little too
close to Bashful to suit me. And who does Donald Duck think he's fooling in
his prissy little sailor hat and middy blouse with no pants?
Laura Pulfer-" Pointing fingers: Open letter to Jerry Falwell"- Cincinatti Enquirer, September 23
Taliban Punishments
Take gay men, for example. Mullahs argued for months about what to do with them. Should they be pushed from the top of a cliff? Forced to jump from a high building? or
should they be made to lie in a hole in the ground while a wall was knocked
down on them?
Mark Epstein-" Inside The Taliban Reign Of Terror"-New York Post, September 23
When Baptists are Helpful
"Without assistance from American Baptists," said CIA director, George J. Tenet, "we never would have stood a chance of getting inside the minds of religious lunatics."
Landover Baptist Church- www.landoverbaptist.org
Forget Fear
What's life without a little risk?
Sean Penn-- in the film, Up at the Villa, 2000
Loved Survivor of Gay Hero Didn't Matter?
GayToday to Orlando Sentinel Reporter:
Mr. Povtak:
Its typical of the Orlando Sentinel that you've ignored the fact that the hero-athlete on Flight 93, Mark Bingham, had a male lover, Paul Holm. Yup, he was gay. You bypassed a top notch opportunity to help stamp out anti-gay prejudices. The fact that Mark was gay has been well known since Sept. 11.
You're a reporter. Why didn't you know?
Jack Nichols, editor, GayToday
Orlando Sentinel Reporter Replies:
i knew all about him being gay, but i didn't see how it mattered. i didn't mention he was white, either. or what religious he was.
thanks for the interest
TPovtak@OrlandoSentinel.com
GayToday Talks Back to Orlando Sentinel Reporter:
You told about Burnett's wife and three daughters.
You told about Glick's wife, a high school sweetheart and
child. Give me a break.
Your "white" excuse doesn't fly.
Jack Nichols, editor, GayToday
A War without End?
Terrorism is a methodology, and a methodology cannot be vanquished. Specific terrorists can be targeted and perhaps destroyed. But it is a mistake to declare a set of means the enemy. By doing so, President Bush and his comrades have given us a war with no natural finale, with no obvious terms of victory. In his better-than-ever speech to Congress, Bush did attempt to establish a potential conclusion by saying this war, "will not end until every terrorist group of global reach has been found, stopped and defeated.'" But that is an objective difficult to accomplish and tough to certify. Moreover, the threat of terrorism cannot be conquered. For as long as the war continues -- and beyond that -- the United States will be vulnerable to terrorism; no military action is going to alter that reality.
David Corn-"Loyal Opposition-A War Without End"-
www.ThomasPaine.com
The Perils of Protest
As American flags draped across rubble and debris at the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, anti-globalization activists named a few things they now fear: a crackdown on dissent; the branding as a terrorist anyone who challenges U.S. foreign policy; world war.
Lenora Todaro--"The Perils of Protest"-The Village Voice, September 19-25
Like a Movie
And in this outpouring of anemic simile, again and again with startlingly little variation,
people resorted to the most chilling refrain: like a movie. Like "Independence Day." Like
"The Towering Inferno." Like "The Siege." Like bad science fiction. Like a Tom Clancy novel. (Clancy, talking to CNN, seemed to find the plot more unbelievable than any plot of
his own.) The magnitude of this day could not be made real except through comparison to
fiction. Nothing but the outsize scale of the imaginary was big enough to measure by.
Richard Powers-"The Simile"-New York Times Magazine, September 23
Who's Partly Responsible?
U.S. and Pakistani officials concede that the United States is partly responsible for the
conditions that bred both the Taliban and bin Laden. In the words of one senior U.S. intelligence official, the United States is about to go to war with an enemy it helped create in the 1980s.
Jack Kelley-"U.S. Takes on War-Hardened Taliban it Helped Create"-USA Today,
September 21-23
'To Thine Own Self be True'
"I ask you to uphold the values of America," President Bush said to Congress and
the nation. That will be a fair test of his policy for dealing with terrorism as the policy
unfolds: Does it uphold the values of America?
Anthony Lewis-"To Thine Own Self be True"-New York Times, September 22
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