The Binary Circumstance

Not only is the U.S. curtailing our most basic human rights at home, they’re working with other countries to make sure you can never get out, not even temporarily, if you’ve ever run afoul of the law.

Combine this with the trend toward allowing the government to accuse individuals of a crime and then deny them the most basic right of habeas corpus and soon everyone will be enslaved.

All they’ll have to do is declare you a terrorist threat and you will disappear, never to be heard from again.

When Picasso died, I read in a magazine that he had made 4,000 masterpieces in his lifetime, and I thought, my God, I could do that in a day. - Andy Warhol

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Rev. Lonnie W. Latham, a Baptist minister who has spoken out against gay sex, is being tried for soliciting sex from an undercover police officer.

Now you know how much I love these kinds of stories, but this one has an extra-special, delightful twist.

The lawyer for a former Baptist church leader who had spoken out against homosexuality said Thursday the minister has a constitutional right to solicit sex from an undercover policeman.

The Rev. Lonnie W. Latham had supported a resolution calling on gays and lesbians to reject their ’sinful, destructive lifestyle’ before his Jan. 3, 2006, arrest outside the Habana Inn in Oklahoma City.

Authorities say he asked the undercover policeman to come up to his hotel for oral sex.

His attorney, Mack Martin, filed a motion to have the misdemeanor lewdness charge thrown out, saying the Supreme Court ruled in the 2003 decision Lawrence v. Texas that it was not illegal for consenting adults to engage in private homosexual acts.

‘Now, my client’s being prosecuted basically for having offered to engage in such an act, which basically makes it a crime to ask someone to do something that’s legal,’ Martin said.

Who does he have to thank for the fact that sex between consenting adults, including homosexuals, is legal? Not the Baptists, I can assure you.

He can thank the homosexuals he’s been waging war against!

In the Catholic Church, today is the day the priest takes ashes and puts them on the forehead of a believer in the shape of a cross and says:

Remember, man, that you are dust and into dust you shall return.

For many years, it’s the only ritual that has made any sense to me. Unlike most of the other teachings of the church, it is rooted in science.

Instead of drawing a cross, they should draw a circle.

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