03/10/2010

Hello Bear men of West Virginia. Are you tired of fraudulent ministers from Hope Chapel, which with one hand fervently oppose homosexual rights with a picket sign, but are reaching with the other underneath a truck stop bathroom stall to give an undercover cop a hand job?

Are you tired of hearing about politicians, politicians like Roy Ashburn, who vote against gay rights one minute, and who after a couple drinks of Jack and Coke pick up a male hooker or go to a gay bar and get a D.U.I. the next minute?

Are you also tired of athletes or armed forces members who identify as straight, while funding anti-gay councils and groups like the Family Policy Council or Exodus International, but have sex with men on the side without disclosing this to their female sexual partner(s)?

I know I am!

When I was closeted up until the age of 21, the people I feared telling the most was my father and my brother; I thought that they would be ashamed of me, loose respect for me, or even hate me and never want to speak to me again. Thank God that I did tell my parents at an early age, because if there is one thing I have learned in life, people hate when you lie to them. I’m glad that it isn’t even an issue anymore with my family and everything is fine, but there was a tim I used to think that it was the biggest issue of all.

So in thinking back to how I felt at this time period, and thinking about if I continued down the road of my life not being comfortable with who I was - lying to everyone about being gay, pretending I liked girls, and not letting another man into my life - I see that I could have easily became a Roy Ashburn, Ron Elmore, or somebody similar who thought my sexual orientation was a huge deal (and that if anyone found out it would be the end of the world). I would be sneaking out to truck stops, hitting on my straight guy friends when I was intoxicated or even worse.

I digress… my point is that I sometimes forget how hard it was to come out of the closet, but I now know that I had to grow a set of fury balls, bite the bullet, and tell my parents; that was me! I choose to tell my parents. I choose to tell my family, my friends and my coworkers (if they ask) for my peace of mind, because I was starting to feel like a monster (and I didn’t like feeling that way). So Bear men of West Virginia, I know how easy it can be to tighten that sphincter, suck those furballs back up into your stomach, and simply hide who you are… and I know what you become if you do that for your entire lifetime… you become one of the sad fucks I just referred to in the first three paragraphs.

An example of one of these people, in my opinion, is mega mercenary Erik Prince, the founder of the gun for hire company Blackwater Worldwide. Blackwater Worldwide recently changed its name to Xe (pronounced like the letter "Z") as part of a rebranding effort aimed at helping the company distance itself from negative incidents, such as a September 2007 shooting in Nisoor Square in Baghdad, Iraq that killed at least a dozen civilians.

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Additionally, Erik Prince is a major funding source for the Alliance Defense Fund and his father was a co-founder of the Family Research Council and Family Policy Council. Prince also serves as vice president of the Edgar and Elsa Prince Foundation, which has given at least $670,000 to the Family Research Council and $531,000 to Focus on the Family over the years.

Bear men, did you know that two lawmakers in our state, Carrie Webster (House Judiciary Chairwoman) and Barbara Fleischauer (Monongalia County Delegate) say they were being targeted by a telemarketing campaign paid for by the Family Policy Council of West Virginia that was designed to intimidate them for their position on anti-gay marriage legislation in West Virginia?

I read something similar to this on one of the various newsfeeds that I follow, and so I started to do a little research into who is Erik Prince, and what exactly is the Family Policy Council. You can find a lot of news concerning Prince’s company and its involvement in several international controversies, including being accused of selling arms to a terrorist organization by the US Government, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the European Union.

Also you will easily find information about a law suit filed by a widow and young sons of an Iraqi man, allegedly killed by a drunken employee of Blackwater Worldwide; the Xe mercenary attempted to cover up the killing by bribing an Iraqi official and destroying document, but the lawsuit alleges that a drunken Blackwater Worldwide mercenary, Andrew Moonen, shot the man for no reason after becoming lost after a Christmas Eve party in Baghdad.

Though information about the law suits isn’t clear at this point, what is clear is that Erik Prince is not above supporting homophobic agendas or condoning and enabling thuggish behaviors. It also seems Prince is not above trying to cover his tracks, so one has to wonder just how much of Mr. Prince’s blood money has been “strategically allied” with The Family Policy Council of West Virginia efforts?

I’m sorry to be such a bearer of negativism and conspiracy Bear men of West Virginia, but this is something that I thought needed to be brought to your attention (if it wasn’t there already). Companies, groups and councils like the Family Research Council, Blackwater Worldwide, Exodus International, the Family Policy Council and more are ran by individuals whos hatred can only be attributed to self-loathing.

Maybe what people like Roy Ashburn and Erick Prince need is just a big ol’ West Virginian muscle Bear to tie them to a tree, yank down there pants, and pound them until they shoot glitter. Maybe if that happened they would be happy… or at least they would be less closeted. Either way Bear men of West Virginia, it is good to know your enemies...

Until next time, woof, Woof, WOOF!!!

-Tiny-Bear ^_^