IS THE WORLD SICKER AND MEANER OR DO WE JUST HEAR IT ALL FASTER?

There is so much proof today that some politicians, and those who work for them, will lie and say anything to get themselves or their candidate elected. 

Ken Mehlman, former head of RNC, has come out as being gay. He is not the first to feed discrimination of gays, withhold equality by working towards it,  In the Huffington Post article by Amanda Terkel, She writes:  " He agreed to answer a reporter's questions, he said, because, now in private life, he wants to become an advocate for gay marriage and anticipated that questions would be asked about his participation in a late-September fundraiser for the American Foundation for Equal Rights (AFER), the group that supported the legal challenge to California's ballot initiative against gay marriage, Proposition 8."

 To finally come to grips at age 43 with one's homosexuality defies all that has forever been known about human sexual development and gender identity.  Having seen so many epiphanies coincide with threats of being 'outed' I must confess to my own speculations on timing and change of direction of life goals and political aims.  The article ends with this:  "Mehlman headed the RNC when the Republican Party was pushing anti-gay initiatives and increasingly speaking out against marriage equality. Former RNC Chairman Ed Gillespie and Mehlman's longtime friend called Mehlman's coming-out "significant," but added that he remains opposed to gay marriage." 

Marc Ambinder, politics editor The Atlantic, writes:    "Mehlman arrived at this conclusion about his identity fairly recently, he said in an interview. He agreed to answer a reporter's questions, he said, because, now in private life, he wants to become an advocate for gay marriage and anticipated that questions would arise about his participation in a late-September fundraiser for the American Foundation for Equal Rights (AFER), the group that supported the legal challenge to California's ballot initiative against gay marriage, Proposition 8."

Is this an example of how one's integrity and values are determined by the job and income it will bring to one?
It also makes me wonder about what the surviving partner of a gay relationship who was shut out of the hospital where his/her partner lay dying, who was subsequently shut out of all planning for burial, memorials, splitting joint assets or whatever other business Mehlman helped keep an insurmountable obstacle,

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It shocks me when I hear people say, "I didn't vote because I knew XXX was going to get in." I'm working hard at gaining mastery in guilt tripping them though I obviously have not aced the art yet. It reminds me of friends who voted for someone they didn't want to see in because they wanted to make a statement to their candidate of choice. The statement ended up being the loss of the candidate they thought was such a shoo in.

Hypocrisy is only outdone by stupidity and ignorance. Uganda is making laws to kill homosexuals on the basis of a grown-up cottage industry that has sprung up to sell courses, retreats, books or 'whatevers' to teach people how to cure themselves and others of homosexuality. A naive or sick government is buying it. What sickens me is that it is Americans who are behind it all. To read an article on Where scandal meets spirituality, click here. It boggles my mind that there are enough sick and misguided people to keep these politicians, con artists and non-scientists on the job.

Lastly, where is the rumor coming from that predicts the Republicans will win all the next elections? Does anyone really think that returning to the good old days of GW Bush will be a good campaign slogan? If the majority of the country voted Obama in on the hope of CHANGE, what makes anyone think that spells Republican in any language or delusion?