2006 - ALICIA BANKSELOQUENT FURY BENN SETFREY'S "DON'T SHOOT! I'M COMING OUT: HOW TO 'MAN-UP' & SET HETEROSEXUALS 'STRAIGHT'" I have absolutely no use for religion. Every religion and religious text were created by sexist, racist, human men. I regard churches as infectious public bath houses. They are places that evil dirty people run to weekly to wash off the stains of their sinful deeds. I live a clean life daily. So, I spare myself that repulsive ritual as often as humanly possible. However, my mother is and always has been my very best friend. So, occasionally, I attend church with her as ritual. I respect that she is religious. She is a true Christian who, like Jesus, loves me as the lesbian that she knows I was born to be. She does not allow any pastor or book to convince her that God wants her to hate me because I love women. She does not use her Bible as a primer for hatred like so many droves of her pseudo-christian peers. My mom and I are both very busy educators. All of our moments together are precious and rare. I share moments in her church under intense physical, spiritual, and emotional duress. Yet, I cherish even these tense moments with my mom nonetheless. The God I serve does not belong to any singular congregation or any stupid pastor. She lives in no single edifice. She is a universal spirit. And, She is enraged at the sexist racist fools who blaspheme against her everywhere everyday... So, She comforts my soul as I sit in bogus blaspheming churches with Mom. I always sit quietly and wait for sinful preachers to gaybash and encourage their flock to hate and abuse hom*osexuals. I rarely ever wait in vain. I refuse to tithe. I put only Mom's money in the collection plate. Then, I pay for breakfast after "service". This is the dance we do as we pretend that each sinful sermon does not burn a permanent scar upon my lesbian soul. Recently, a popular Little Rock pastor preached about the horrid condition of our world. He briefly listed"things that should cause all real Christians to grieve". Weeks later, I am still reeling, shocked, and appalled as I recall his pathetic list of worldly ills. ItDID NOTinclude: George W. Bush and his bloody ruthless ilk, the repulsive war for oil in Iraq, the petrifying global economy, the New World Order, poverty, the soaring cost of gas, the bio-war of AIDS, illiteracy, nonexistent living wages, the burgeoning crisis in education, elitism, etc.... This mindless pastor's listDIDinclude: crime, drugs, and"little boys who want to be little girls and little girls who want to be little boys". Someone, PLEASE, email me NOW (ambwww@yahoo.com) and explain this rabid hatred and ignorance! Please tell me: When was the last time you saw a socially lost and sexually confused child sell crack to or gun down a neighbor?! I am a native of Chicago, Illinois. I am currently a very proud resident of Little Rock, Arkansas. Recently, the Arkansas Supreme Court upset droves of hom*o-hating, gaybashing, Arkansan morons by ruling that hom*osexuals will be allowed to legally adopt children in our state. Immediately thereafter, local talk radio became a hate fest! Educated people know that hom*osexuals are naturally born into every living species. Intelligent people know that heterosexual parents give birth to hom*osexual children daily. Our gay lives prove that sexuality is not contagious, as we were not infected by the heterosexuality of our parents. Sexuality is never a choice. Only living a lie is a choice. The world is filled with heterosexual pedophiles, serial killers, rapists, and murderers whose parents are also heterosexuals. Yet, ever notice how these pathologies are never blamed upon heterosexual parenting? Only hom*osexual parents are presumed toxic and sexually contagious until proven innocent. Most gay parents are invisible via closets. Morons are blinded by hatred and fear. That blindness makes them illiterate and illogical. They never offer any alternatives to the social apartheid they wish upon hom*osexuals. Just where do they suggest that all of these orphans go as they deny hom*osexuals adoption rights? Are they rushing to adopt a single child as they gaybash? Are they even taking care of their own illiterate and illegitimate children? Are they paying child support? What book of the Bible instructs Christians to betray and abuse orphans and hate hom*osexuals so? I thank God for Benn Setfrey and all of the real Christians who combat such holy morons. You must read"Don't Shoot! I'm Coming Out : How to "Man-Up" & Set Heterosexuals 'Straight'."I will use this book as therapy after future emotional trauma endured inside churches. There is so very little sanity in any public forum about hom*osexuality. Buy-bull thumpers use their bibles as weapons. Now, you may use Benn's book to return rapid fire! This book is ideal to combat all the shameless religious lies about hom*osexuals. Most parents have difficulty discussing any sexuality with their children. They feel tense, awkward, ashamed, exposed, hypocritical...as they engage in these delicate sexual conversations. And, as most parents are heterosexual, these tensions are magnified when parents discuss hom*osexuality with gay children. Let Benn's book make it easier. This book reads like a social primer. It counsels and empowers like a surrogate parent. Benn's is a maverick voice that mentors to young gay brothers seeking sanity about being real men who happen to be hom*osexual. His wisdom is the key to being healthy, happy, and masculine in a hateful heterosexual world. Benn's voice is candid and comical, passionate and powerful, witty and wise. As all human relationships are the same irrespective of sexuality, this book is filled with universally great advice. Benn covers every topic from hygiene to career paths. He epitomizes the best of his advice as an educator, entrepreneur, and happily monogamous spousal partner of a fellow black gay man. I am proud to have very much in common with Benn. We are both afrocentric and passionate educators, intellectual activists, anti-pseudo-christian crusaders (Benn calls our enemies "hypochristians"), and vocal production talents. We both have academic and professional roots in Chicago. I am a femme who loves femmes and Benn is a macho man who loves macho men. We are both living with monogamous hom*osexual soulmates whom we adore. Most importantly, we both KNOW that gaybashers win as long as gays like us are invisible!!! Read"Don't Shoot! I'm Coming Out : How to "Man-Up" & Set Heterosexuals 'Straight' "today to find the courage to be visible! This book details how most masculine gay men are invisible as they hide within cowardly closets or behind female "beards" as DL brothers. Benn details how clandestine lives lend consent to hatred and shame. He champions masculine hom*osexual role models who have the courage to be visible as they mentor and inspire young gay brothers. "Don't Shoot! I'm Coming Out : How to "Man-Up" & Set Heterosexuals 'Straight'is biographical and analytical. It is personal and political. It is raw and real. I am proud to be Benn's sister warrior. I am even prouder to urge you to read his book today. Give this book to a young gay man you love today. It will help him love himself. Benn and I love our hom*osexuals selves unconditionally. That love allows us to defy all haters. That defiance guides and protects us as we destroy the evil and ignorance that black churches and their ilk spew. Here are a few excerpts from this classic book: This book is dedicated to young men who are battling with their sexual orientation...and prefer the title "king" instead of queen. It's time we make the transition from invisible to invincible. I'm not willing to live an invisible life any longer. I'm writing this book for Nell Carter, who felt forced to keep her [lesbian] companion a secret... I became attracted to the same sex before I truly knew what sex was. It's who you have feelings or emotions for that determine your sexual orientation, not the act itself. I have even considered suicide as a teen on more than one occasion. If being hom*osexual is a lifestyle choice, then why are grandparents, uncles, aunts, siblings, and other family members so quick to label boys gay before they even reach puberty? Being gay is not a lifestyle choice...Living gay is. Gay men don't want to bare any resemblance to any of the males who tormented them as children. Getting in touch with your masculine side is a process. You are a man by gender and genetics..."Man-Up"! Nobody wants to be gaybashed because they are walking next to you. You do not have to be effeminate to be gay. I don't kick it with anybody who thinks they will sit around and call me "girl" or "bitch". Gay men who can pass for straight often do. ...find a male role model. Men, stop gossiping, it makes you look sweet. I have...been more of a father to my niece and nine nephews than some of their own fathers...I didn't turn any of them gay. ...your circles probably already know [you are gay], and every mother knows. ...don't let your dreams get deferred because you're afraid of being "found out". God knows you're gay. GAY=GodAcceptsYou Religion and fear are not the answer. Spirituality is. God did not write the Bible. I am one of those gay sons the church has banished. I didn't leave the church. The church left me. The church just doesn't love me...The choir stand is where the welcome (to gays) starts and ends. Don't let Bible thumpers and ministers who sin on a regular basis push you out of the Kingdom of Heaven. Everyone has to find the God inside and create their own inner peace. The church is a business just like IBM and Chase...I don't want to be around all those holy sinners sitting up in church when He comes...I refuse to be played like a pawn in church. It was hom*ophobic Black people who put George Bush in office in 2001! The same hypochristians who have been divorced three or four times, cheated on and beat their spouses, want to keep me from marrying my partner... Everyone should find a spiritual counselor...he or she may not be found in a church. hom*osexuality is not a sin or a shame. Slow walk negative people from your life. Some men living on the down low are not even bisexual. They are gay! ...alcohol abuse is not sexy. ...there's racism under the gay rainbow. I think teaching is the New Birth Control. My sexual desires did not impair my performance in the workplace. Secrets can age you, make you ill, and even kill you. I don't want my life to be a lie of omission. I don't want people to think I'm ashamed of who I am. I want the sinners on this planet to focus on their sins... I refuse to live in my own shadow... The same love and affection we crave as children is just as essential in adulthood. You need to possess each quality you are looking for in someone else. Never get involved with a habitual liar. You should never compromise your dignity for the sake of a man. Treat everyone you meet like they are HIV positive. Cohabitation doesn't mean you lose your right to privacy. A man is only as trustworthy as his options. Many men have a natural desire to have anonymous sex. ...you can't stop a man from cheating. I fail to understand how some hom*osexuals believe two men living together is a sin and a shame so they opt for "casual sex with random partners"... If he is not your friend, he can never become your family. ...an affair of the heart is more powerful than a sexual affair. Make sure your man enjoys traveling...if for no other reason, go just for the hotel sex. ...hom*osexuals are everywhere on every continent and in every profession, including the NFL, NBA, and MLB. Change gon' come. We are you. We have always been here and "we ain't going nowhere!" FOR MORE INFO ON BENN SETFREY, SEE:
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