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My response was to long for H Post.  Wishing to share my feelings about what she said shared, I choose to put them on my favorite site; TPM.  Also, I hope she stumbles across this, that follows:

Nice post Melissa.  Your talent is obviously bigger than the venue you are best known for. 

 

Firstly; GLBT needs to stop, have some ice cream, chill a little and, think about how behavior and environment are interrelated and inseparable.  I am not gay and nobody has asked my opinion though I do have strong feelings regarding the Rick Warren kerfuffle.  My issue with Warren being given a public forum stems from my desire that the "separation between church and state" was taken at least as seriously as is the "right to bear arms", but that is for another story; another thread and; another blog.

 

Like you, I find the road I want people to travel while on their way to seeing things from my perspective to be smooth and inviting rather than filled with potholes and without basic services like signage.  For my road to be this way it is necessary for me to invest in building bridges over the impassable fast moving waters, canyons and gorges.  I'll listen to Pastor Warren, though I'll feel imposed upon by the religious presence at a governmental function while, at the same time, feeling the time of the influence of his presence is ending because all the evidence I see says this is so.  I believe this is true for the LGBT also though I envy the fact that the LGBT is probably decades ahead of my big issue in terms of absolute realization.  I choose to travel the road Obama is building though he hasn't repudiated government sponsored "Faith Based Initiatives" but rather, embraced it.

 

Secondly; would you please record another Janis Joplin tune.  "Piece of My Heart" took a notch out of mine.  You've got the chops so how about "Try" or, "Bye Bye Baby" or, "Summertime" or, "Get It While You Can".  One of them, or all of them, I promise to add them to my so far complete collection of your works.

 

Keep on keep'in on.  I think your fabulous.