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Street Walkin'
by Sukie de la Croix
2003-11-12

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You may remember I recently wrote about big-time loser Monsignor Edmund Whalen throwing two gay men out of the St. Benedict's church choir in New York just because they were gay …

… Well, earwig-O again!! … this time at the First Presbyterian Church of Downers Grove. The Chicago Tribune reports that, after coming out to church officials as gay, the church's music director, Todd Diehl, was forced to resign.

'It is at least the second dismissal of a gay church employee in Illinois this year,' reports the Tribune. 'Bill Stein, a choir director at Holy Family Catholic Church in Rockford, was fired after he refused to renounce his partner of 10 years.'

When are these bigoted ill-informed sheets of toilet paper going to realize that if you take gays out of music, all you're left with is Guns & Roses and Michael Bolton?

Even the words to 'America the Beautiful' were written by a lesbian … Katharine Lee Bates … .

Grow up!!

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Australia's Sunday Herald Sun reports that 'the world's first talking gay dolls are set to come out of the toy box in Australia in time for Christmas.

'Openly gay Elton the Biker and his plastic partner, Marshall, have racked up 300,000 sales in the U.S. and Europe since their release 11 months ago despite an outcry from family and church groups.'

Christians don't like the dolls for obvious reasons, and some lefty PC gay groups accuse the manufacturers of using stereotypes. Get over it, both of you. Who cares what you think anyway?

I think they should 'extend' the selection of stereotypical gay dolls to include: The sad pathetic 60-year-old drunk-off-her-ass queen sitting in a bar with a hint of Max Factor and a vague memory of sex; the 300-lb chain-smoking lesbian who heaves herself off a bar stool to throw darts; the brain-dead twinkie in the bathroom snorting up cocaine with his brain-dead friends; the leather guy with a M.A.F.I.A. T-shirt and a limp wrist who bitches about his manicurist; the delusional 26-year-old bulldyke in ugly shoes and men's pants who thinks it doesn't matter what you look like, it's what's inside that counts; the drag queen with a face like a deep dish pizza who actually thinks she looks like a woman; and the unelected leader of a gay political organization who thinks they 'speak on behalf of the community,' when, in reality, most gay people don't even know, or care, who they are.

Any of the above dolls, I would definitely buy, because those are the people I meet in this community.

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A headline in the Plain Dealer reads 'Gun club aims to arm gays for defense against bashers.' I think that's a great idea. The article reads ' … one regular range-shooter, a cop who was off duty at the time, in front of a gay club in Columbus. He pulled his gun, pointed it in the air and said, 'You picked on the wrong fairy.''

That off-duty cop is my hero. Those words could have come right out of my mouth … readers out there who know me, are now thinking … 'That's exactly what Sukie would have said.'

I totally support gay people carrying guns for protection.

It should be legal, even encouraged, for gay people to shoot homophobes … and people with '80s hairstyles … and anyone who thinks the Human League were a good band. ---------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------


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