The League of Ordinary Gentlemen » Uganda http://www.ordinary-gentlemen.com Fri, 30 Jul 2010 18:50:18 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Dear Uganda, http://www.ordinary-gentlemen.com/2009/12/dear-uganda/ http://www.ordinary-gentlemen.com/2009/12/dear-uganda/#comments Wed, 09 Dec 2009 04:46:39 +0000 Will http://www.ordinary-gentlemen.com/?p=11662 Please listen to Jason Kuznicki.

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]]> http://www.ordinary-gentlemen.com/2009/12/dear-uganda/feed/ 7 I Take It All Back http://www.ordinary-gentlemen.com/2009/12/i-take-it-all-back-2/ http://www.ordinary-gentlemen.com/2009/12/i-take-it-all-back-2/#comments Tue, 01 Dec 2009 23:51:54 +0000 Scott H. Payne http://www.ordinary-gentlemen.com/?p=11470

It is true that one can argue for the delay of certain decisions with a certain well intentioned glibness. It’s not that you oppose the particular initiative or need for the decision, but rather that there is so much to do, so many decisions to make, isn’t it important to tackle each of them head on, one-by-one?

It is, I suppose, until one sees the run-off impacts of pushing the need to repeal Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell or the Defense of Marriage Act off to another day, or not having a President who believes in equal rights under the law speak loudly and clearly of the need to support marriage equality, or inviting Rick Warren to participate in the inauguration of that President in the harsh and unforgiving light of purely putative and explicitly discriminatory legislation elsewhere.

Though there is not a one-to-one relationship between one’s actions (or lack thereof) and the existence of such legislation, one wonders what degree of moral authority one possesses in order to address such issues having embraced the fierce urgency of whenever.

It is a humbling and, in some senses, chilling realization of tacit and unintended complicity.

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