Ezekiel,

However, I hope you are clear on the concept of "Jehovah's Queer Witness". That is, it has nothing to do with Jehovah's Witnesses, except that "queerifying" the title has both a humorous and political punch. Some people really think I created that title because I, myself, am a JW as well as gay. That just ain't the case. I created the title because I find it very clever.

Yes, definitely that is what I imagined.

I've thought about why Massachussetts has the honor of being the first state to sanctify gay marriage. Of course, it has to be the fact that someone so DEDICATED to gay rights lives in that area:

You!

Well, confidentally I think that I do have a "behind-the-scenes" influence, for which I am not sure of the net effects, but do tend to believe that there is an impact. It is an effect on the chemistry that would not be provable, even with investigation. Things that I say tend to reverbate more than most anyone would believe. I would never say this publicly, since I think that in these matters we all need to put egos aside. It isn't about us, it is about the human rights struggle. It is almost impossible to assess the effects of what we individually do (but it is important that we do them, to quote).

Based on my spritiual visions about you and me and some (as yet unknown) others have a great destiny as leaders of gay liberation. Your spirit is certainly strong enough to radiate an enormous amount of will and benevolence, as to begin influencing the spiritual energy over large regions, simply by your presence.

If such is the case, I'd have to conclude that California will be the second state. Why?

Because I live there.

No doubt. Destiny can be a mixed bag. JFK and MLK had destinies, and so did Malcolm X and Che Guevara. Destiny gets you coming and going, regardless your of basic approach. I hope to survive freely, long enough to make it a source of speculation someday as to how and why that was possible. I try not to be egotistical in imagining that there will be public discussion of my life, someday, which is another thing that I would not say publicly. I don't need attention, in fact it might be embarassing, but far too much has happened for it not to gain broader public attention, someday, which will hopefully be mostly after I'm gone and can't be bothered by it.

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Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2004 21:58:50 -0800
From: Zeke Krahlin
To: East Coast Gay Activist
Subject: Re: My pic in S.F. Examiner - go see!

Quoting East Coast Gay Activist:

No doubt. Destiny can be a mixed bag. JFK and MLK had destinies, and so did Malcolm X and Che Guevara. Destiny gets you coming and going, regardless your of basic approach.

There are happy destinies too...one CAN have one's cake, and eat it, too. Buddhism has an excellent handle on this attitude: rise above the duality. The JFK/MLK type sagas are but ONE genre of destiny's fulfillment. This western tragedy has been way overdone. Non-western traditions have a better understanding on the goodness of life, that need not require tragic endings to learn a lesson, or achieve some good. Sometimes, playing the scenario of "good vs. evil" is a poor way to go. One can also EASILY perceive evil is a temporary component of evolution...to be vastly tempered once we graduate from grade school.

I try not to be egotistical in imagining that there will be public discussion of my life, someday, which is another thing that I would not say publicly. I don't need attention, in fact it might be embarassing,

But you are smart enough to realize that your type of ideas are likely to fire up the reader's spirit, and have a visible impact on our culture. 'Cause you're also smart enough to know the type of writing required to inspire people...the kind that yearns to take off on its own, and it does (w/o you're being able to do a thing about it).

I often imagine myself famous...but believe now, this was not my imagination, but my visionary capacity to see some of the future.

You will be amused to know that I walked out on tonight's Democratic Party Meetup. In a nutshell: some there hollered me down, when I tried to bring up the gay issue. My goal was to incorporate an aggressive, pro-gay platform within the Democratic Party. I scratched the surfaces of these "liberal" heteros, and found almost overwhelming hatred against me, for my gay stance.

This shows me that the Dems will likely turn on queers, and participate in the Holocaust II. Or this party will split between the pro-gay faction and the anti-gay faction. My platform is thus:

"I realize anti-gay marriage is the trump card to wipe out all the rights of sexual minorities. And I don't think any other (non-queer) minority or political group can make any progress at this point, without wholeheartedly defending and incorporating LGBTQ issues...even above and beyond any other civil right, for some years to come. Defending and liberating QueerFolk is the key to liberating everyone else. This is my conviction, by which I strongly stand."

But the group couldn't handle it, treated me like a little child, rolled their eyes, screamed at me, and were overall rude and homophobic...including Owen, the Gay Democratic Leader of S.F. Young Dems! So I walked out, telling them when they come to their senses, they'll contact me. The Dems need strong-willed leadership such as what I can offer...but I'll be damned, if I breathe new life into the Party without a solid show of pro-gay support on their part. They need us, we don't need them. Queers will find a way through this horrid muck, I'm sure of that!

It's as if they're all born-again Xians who've infiltrated the Dems, here in S.F. No surprise here. I planted the seed of dissent, before walking out. The sooner we have an ultra-pro-gay Democratic Party, the sooner we'll have a better world. Much, much better.

And gayer.

Bush will likely pass the anti-gay marriage amendment around Thanksgiving. This will read as a green light for homophobes everywhere, to cast us from our homes, our jobs, our towns, and so on. Dubya will declare sexual minorities an imminent danger to Amerikan Hetero Fambly Valyooz. Thus begins the Holocaust II, with gays the primary target.

The sane part of the world will see the US an immediate threat to this planet's survival...knowing that once a dictator starts bashing gays, it's not long before he begins blowing up bombs around the world. So these sane nations (which may include China, Russia, Brazil, and Cuba) will group together quickly, and become vastly more powerful than the US. They will dismantle our government, that the USA will be no more; this grand experiment gone awry, and become too hazardous to allow to strive further.

With that, new nations shall be carved out of the former USA...including Athenia, world's first gay nation (with me for their first President).

What may then happen, is the restoration of Amerika piece by piece...with Athenia remaining a nation unto itself...a beacon for sexual minorities to follow if they seek refuge.

I now witness my visions of dictatorship and civil war/holocaust unfold. Which affirms their truth, and the resulting success of sexual minorities, shown in the visions that follow.

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Vote for Zeke in two double-oh eight,
Or right-wing goons will seal your fate!
gay-bible.org/index.html#prez

But you're either extremely forgetful or extremely insensitive to suggest that not being able to get legally married is the same as facing guns, attack dogs, lynch mobs and jail cells;

Strange...gay people are still facing guns, attack dogs, lynch mobs, and jail cells. And just as blacks had to deal with Jim Crow laws, we have to deal with atrocities like Colorado's Amendment 2 which sought to make it legal to discriminate against gay people and make it illegal for gay people to do anything about it.

One of the new Republican Senators recently elected feels that doctors who perform abortions should be given the death penalty. What do you think he's going to try and do to the legal status of gay people?

that homophobia is fundamentally the same as racism in its antecedents and practices;

In many cases, it is. It stems from a feeling of superiority over the inferior, envisioning gay people as something less than human, coupled with a biblical mandate to feel that way. Sounds an awful lot like some of the etiology of racism.

and that the attempt to legislate recognition of same-sex marriage is linked to some life-or-death struggle in the way that overturning Jim Crow laws was linked to the basic right of African Americans not to be spit on, beaten, jailed, or murdered.

So Loving v. Virginia has no connection to Jim Crow laws?

No poor queer eats because of a marriage law;

Actually, they do. There are poor gay people who would receive the significant monetary benefits of marriage and thus be able to eat.

no (uncoupled) queer gets better medical care because of a marriage law;

Actually, they do. Not everybody lives in a state that has laws requiring insurance policies to cover domestic partners.

no queer teenager stops getting fag-baited because of a marriage law.

Of course not. But then again, black people didn't stop getting lynched because of Loving v. Virginia. Should it not have been fought for? And are you seriously saying that miscegenation laws had nothing to do with racism?

Focus your political efforts there if you want, but let's try to avoid being *too* grand about what's really at stake.

On the contrary, you need to start realizing that it is grander than you think.