As the
White House bathed in rainbow light last week, I was prodded to ruminate about
upcoming Fourth of July events. Disney similarly enveloped its signature
buildings in gay colors and it got me to thinking. I’m sure the Golden Gate
Bridge in San Francisco will be illuminated in pastels this weekend, but I’d like to see Mount Rushmore flooded
by the rainbow colors for the Fourth of July celebration.
They’d
look great on Washington, et. al. I can practically hear Teddy Roosevelt
“Bully, bullying!” as the purple and pink hues caress his visage!
Now we
know why he said, “speak softly and
carry a big stick.” Wink, wink.
Well,
after all, he was a Rough Rider,
right? Ooohhh!
(If
there was an LGBTG Mount Rushmore, who’d be on it? Harry Hay, Caitlynn Jenner,
Ellen DeGeneres and Anthony Kennedy?).
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Every post that has ever appeared on this site has been written exclusively by yours truly. (I apologize for that!). Until today.
I recently came across a years-old, op-ed page post from a small town, upper-midwestern-state newspaper that really impressed me. The message is simple, straight-forward and logical. In honor of who we were and what we formerly believed (that made us a uniquely great nation), I now post it here, with permission, this 4th of July, the year of our Lord 2015:
There
are certain truths which are true no matter how much the world may question or
deny them. In the economic realm, for instance, you cannot legislate the poor
into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of it. You cannot multiply wealth
by dividing it. Governments cannot give to people what they do not first take
away from people. And that which one man receives without working for, another
man must work for without receiving. And nothing can kill the initiative of a
people quicker than for half to get the idea they need not work because the
other half will feed them, and for the other half to get the idea it does no
good to work since someone else receives the rewards.
From the Edgerton,
Minnesota Enterprise
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