Forgotten Beatitudes

Finally, I’m ahead of the fashion curve!

So, apparently, Melissa “America’s Wealthiest Second Class Citizen” Etheridge has decided to lose her damn mind and piss off a whole lotta queens from coast to coast.  From her post on The Huffington Post:

“He explained in very thoughtful words that as a Christian he believed in equal rights for everyone. He believed every loving relationship should have equal protection. He struggled with proposition 8 because he didn’t want to see marriage redefined as anything other than between a man and a woman. He said he regretted his choice of words in his video message to his congregation about proposition 8 when he mentioned pedophiles and those who commit incest. He said that in no way, is that how he thought about gays. He invited me to his church, I invited him to my home to meet my wife and kids. He told me of his wife’s struggle with breast cancer just a year before mine.”

Uh-oh, Missy, while most of us know that “queen” is just a honorary title, there are some trifling little bits of baggage out there who ain’t happy with your message of Hope, Change and Embracing Diversity.

I’ll leave it as an exercise for the reader to find which blog I might be tempted to use as an example.  I simply can’t bring myself to link to this one.

It is amazing to me how quickly we’ll eat our own for the transgression of stepping one inch outside of the prescribed party line.  Just last year everyone was cooing over Missy and her rather indulgent handling of a presidential debate.  Then, mere weeks ago, they were cheering her own as she vowed to pick up her millions and go home, depriving an already cash-strapped California of what little bit of taxes they might have gotten out of her to begin with.

Not sure what happened to that pledge, mind you.

However, she has sinned and so she’s gone from being a leader to irrelevant almost overnight.  I’d say we’re an inherently  fickle people, but I really just want to believe it’s all the Tina.

While I heartily approve of Missy’s stance on this issue and hope more leaders will speak up and say, “People, choose your damn battles,” I do have to chuckle at this crass bit of self-serving justification:

“On the day of the conference I received a call from Pastor Rick, and before I could say anything, he told me what a fan he was. He had most of my albums from the very first one. What? This didn’t sound like a gay hater…”

Yes, Missy, you’re bringing change, one royalty check at a time…