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The spokesman also pointed out that Parker has never pushed or highlighted any kind of gay agenda during her time in government and during her campaign.

“She’s an all business kind of gal,” he said.

I made the mistake of looking at this Google Alert, and a story about the pastor Joel Osteen  who was asked to pray at the inauguarion for Houston’s first openly (and partnered) lesbian, Annise Parker. There was a different quote used as an except, and that was part of what got me into the article:

If Parker begins pushing a homosexual agenda, Iloff said Lakewood Church and Pastor Osteen are likely to distance themselves from her…

When I read that, I chuckled and thought- when will straights realize that gays and lesbians are just like everyone else, and our goal, in whatever job we take is to do our job, not push an agenda. But then I started reading the story, and wanted to puke. It is crap like this that makes me want to call straights (at least these types of straight people) breeders. How would they feel if everything about their lives were overlooked except for one small part of their sexuality?

But this is from christianpost.com, so I don’t know what I was expecting.

More interesting to me however, is the quote at the top of my blog post. It displays everything that is wrong with the status quo and the conservative movement, as well as the way the religious play a role in that.

• It implies that to push a gay agenda (whatever the heck that might mean for a mayor) would be acting in a way counter to business. That GLBTQ rights and equality isn’t serious or important.  He describes her as “all business” so what does that mean exactly?
• It places women, in their place of being “gals.”  Or maybe “gals” is a regional thing that I don’t understand since I’m not from Texas.

I think I’d describe her as a classy, and smart politician.

She also briefly addressed the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community saying, “I feel your excitement and your joy, your apprehension and your longing for acceptance. I will gladly carry you forward. But today is simply one step toward a tomorrow of greater justice,”

The opposition to GLBTQ rights isn’t really an opposition based on real issues, but rather, it is a desire and effort to maintain the status quo. Keep business as usual. Every movement to bring about justice has been a movement to break the status quo, and with steps like Parker’s election, we keep taking baby steps forward towards breaking that status quo down.

via Joel Osteen Prays for Houston’s First Openly Gay Mayor | Christianpost.com.