December 13, 2007
by Volt and Electra Penn
As if a giant red 'A' tattooed on someone's chest weren't enough, early Americans wrapped themselves in the sack cloth of Puritanism. Ever since those quaint colonial days 'we the people' have steadily drifted toward indiscriminate discrimination. If it's not about skin color, religion, wealth or class jealousy, it's about going down on your own kind. Gays and lesbians can plaster hundreds of happy smiling rainbows on their auto bumpers - but what it'll get them is a dirty look or 'the middle finger' flip-off by a Toby Keith knockoff in a Ford F-150 pickup.
Americans have forever been brainwashed by Bible thumping iconoclastic preachers and politicians spewing hateful invectives against same sex partners and condemning them for loving another human. In this country if a daughter is 'that way' she may be out of the closet, but she mostly stays out of your mind, too.
Got a queer son? He's nothing but a dark shadow cast low on the family's moral fence line and verboten in polite patio conversation. Every Sunday we hear the sanctimonious pitchmen lecture about 'loving the sinner, but hating the sin', which translates into, "Of course your gay son is acceptable to sing in our choir, madam, but we all know he's headed straight for hell. Did you say he's diseased or deceased?"
Pat Boone, Pat Robertson, and if I'm not mistaken, Pat Buchanan, all have said there'll be a hellish reward for men who court other men and women who have children with other women. That sort of 4th Century dogma continually feeds small minded Americans, the ones who thrive on the thought that queers are doomed to an after-life in the furnace with the likes of Jerry Falwell, Lee Atwater and eventually, of course, George W. Bush.
But take heart my friends. There are a few free thinkers in this society that reject that sort of infantile nonsense. According to the esteemed publisher of Hustler, Chic and Barely Legal Magazine, queers won't go to hell - neither will you or I - and neither did Madalyn Murray O'Hair. I know this because when Larry Flynt, America's first crippled shock-jock, responded to my question 'Did God Damn Madalyn?' he wrote, "When you're dead, you're dead." At the bottom of his letter the initials 'rrw' had been typed beside Flynt's big 'LF', but the closing signature was a tortured scribble that told me Mr. Flynt had definitely signed himself.
Anybody wondering why I petitioned Larry Flynt on a moral issue, I would have to ask right back, "Why not Larry Flynt?" For more than 30 years he has been riding the sharp edge of this country's conscience. Who besides Flynt is better qualified to lead the charge against bigotry, prejudice and hypocrisy, especially of the rich, powerful and famous? Who, when asked to explain his philosophical view about a moral life, would reword the Golden Rule - in other words a person can do, read or say anything, 'as long as nobody gets hurt'. Of course it helps to make a buck in the process, too.
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Hats off to Larry. His million dollar offering to anyone presenting information on the whore-mongering, circle-jerking politicos running things is an act worthy of a Presidential Medal of Freedom. If Larry has any fight left, he should get really serious and make the reward for deep-throat so enormous it can't be refused. Guaranteed security would be needed to protect any with information leading to the arrest and conviction of politicians who commit the worst dastardly deeds cloaked in the purple cloth of empire expansion.
Who are these politicians hired to protect our constitutional rights, yet seemed hell-bend on denying the same freedoms to the queer? They are the worst kind of vermin that seemingly breed in government dark places, such as Rep. Bob Livingston and Senator David Vitter. They are among those who have legislated morality, then had no thought of love, respect or devotion during tawdry sexual liaisons with the under age girl or boy-next-door. These are infamous Washington frauds squirreling away dirty little secrets between the lily white sheets of a Bible.
In our country we have condoned conservative politicos and those who preach one set of 'ideals' for you and me - while living by quite different standards themselves. In this nation of self-proclaimed sheep we are led not by upstanding shepherds who look out for all our interests, but by a bunch of charlatan flock abusers. Why else would they vote against hate crime bills? Why else would they refuse to alleviate suffering of those less fortunate? And why in God's name do they hold on to a Bible when they lie, cheat and tap 3 times on the bathroom stall next door?
Who's the sicko here? Not steely-nerved Flynt in his search for the truth, justice and the Constitutional way. Maybe it's Trench-mouth Trents on Capitol Hill who aren't just spanking the monkey, but beating the shit out of it.
Folks, if nothing else, we should give Larry Flynt a standing ovation for his pursuit of the plain truth. He's the only one brave enough to expose those who are pissing all over the foundation of we call holy. Even though he's been through enough misery, he's still mad as hell and won't take anything less than the freedoms guaranteed in the Constitution of the United States of America - for all Americans. Flynt may be the only one in Washington D.C. brave enough to halt the squirter's convention that's been squatting underneath our capitol's dome.
Let's call upon all that we deem sacred that Larry Flynt lives long enough to benefit from stem cell therapy and walk again.
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Have Penn they'll listen. Volt Penn writes speeches for Progressive Populists and reasoned arguments for those on the left of center. He has also written speeches for anybody who has read his work. You can reach Volt Penn through his artist friend, b.b.kemp, at bbkemp@bbkemp.com
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