Monday morning musings on MLK Day
Jan. 19th, 2009 08:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lauraanne_gilmanLast night, while introducing M. to Jeff Dunham, we came up with the name for his next special: "Cause it's Wrong, but Funny."
On a less amusing note, apparently there are people out in the blogosphere are screaming censorship because a prayer was cut from the broadcast of the We Are One celebration by HBO.
I have three thoughts on that
1. "censorship" applies ONLY to government actions. A commercial decision to edit a broadcast is not censorship. Please, already, learn your damned vocabulary before you use it.
2. The prayer was given before the celebration officially started, and included in the broadcast was the Gay Men's Choir, with full camera views and all, so it's less discrimination against gays and more discrimination against religion, ne?
3. As a follow-up the #2 thought, those claiming the removal of a gay bishop's prayer being discriminatory etc might want to stop and think about those of us who feel discriminated against every time a priest, a bishop, a minister, etc - no matter what their gender preference -- is invited to give a prayer over something. Yeah, we (non-Christians) are a minority. Does that mean we should be ignored or discounted?
(I was going to ask about the atheists and agnostics, but that would be writing the Other, and that's another blogfest I'm not getting into because I just wrote an entire series about hatred and discrimination and fear, and how we're ALL The Other to someone else. IMO and IMB*, Learning the Other is more productive to literature and society than fetishizing or fearing it. Your mileage possibly varies.)
and now, I have a book to finish revising. Yes.
*in my books
On a less amusing note, apparently there are people out in the blogosphere are screaming censorship because a prayer was cut from the broadcast of the We Are One celebration by HBO.
I have three thoughts on that
1. "censorship" applies ONLY to government actions. A commercial decision to edit a broadcast is not censorship. Please, already, learn your damned vocabulary before you use it.
2. The prayer was given before the celebration officially started, and included in the broadcast was the Gay Men's Choir, with full camera views and all, so it's less discrimination against gays and more discrimination against religion, ne?
3. As a follow-up the #2 thought, those claiming the removal of a gay bishop's prayer being discriminatory etc might want to stop and think about those of us who feel discriminated against every time a priest, a bishop, a minister, etc - no matter what their gender preference -- is invited to give a prayer over something. Yeah, we (non-Christians) are a minority. Does that mean we should be ignored or discounted?
(I was going to ask about the atheists and agnostics, but that would be writing the Other, and that's another blogfest I'm not getting into because I just wrote an entire series about hatred and discrimination and fear, and how we're ALL The Other to someone else. IMO and IMB*, Learning the Other is more productive to literature and society than fetishizing or fearing it. Your mileage possibly varies.)
and now, I have a book to finish revising. Yes.
*in my books
