James Nimmo
James Nimmo is active in progressive issues and believes no one should be denied their equality because of the accident of birth and circumstances.
Articles by James Nimmo
October 20, 2009
Reasonable people who want to reduce the number and need of abortions understand that the obvious requirement is to prevent pregnancy in the first place. Sen. Lamb needs to sit down and have an adult "birds and bees" lesson with a medical professional instead of a bull session with the good ole boys.
September 18, 2009
This Joke-lahoman editorial states quite clearly that to be an out gay man, to advocate for the protection of school children, and to be a good teacher are three incompatible aspects of being human.
August 15, 2009
Ms. Fallin's event menu was not for the vegetarians. She served red meat to the red necks, boiler plate to the beer can crushers, and a cold shoulder to any possibility of a different POV.
I'm not interested in moving down the insurance food chain, I want to move up to what Congress has NOW!
July 26, 2009
Now that I've attended one of the far right's inspirational conclaves on a prominent college campus, I'm not surprised that progressive churches, health clinics, and national museums are attacked by inspired followers.
July 23, 2009
Kern and his bullying colleagues are trying to impose apartheid on this country's gay and lesbian citizens.
Gays and lesbians pay taxes, hold steady jobs, volunteer in the community, maintain families, get elected to public office, and serve in the Armed Forces. We bleed, live, and die just like everyone else.
July 12, 2009
Kern's proclamation has been shown to contain invented quotes and out-of-context references in order to sugar-coat and disguise the civil-rights violating intent of her disregard for truth and history in the pursuit of her theocratic dogma. ( http://tinyurl.com/ltxee3 )
If Mrs.Kern really is true to her religious orientation then why does she seem reluctant to provide a financial accounting to the public? Would Mrs. Kern actually lie in order to try and dissolve the First Amendment?
July 09, 2009
Well, we were told to move out, so we did; right up the escalator to the elevator to Inhofe's office. By the time five elevators had lifted us to the 12th floor AND the media was in place, including KTOK, KSBI (52), Associated Press, and OETA (sharing with FOX 25), and Nathaniel Batchelder who had brought a car full of Peace Camp Teens to participate in a peaceful exercise of the First Amendment, we had quite a collection of people.
June 23, 2009
But I do have a difference of opinion with a ranting, gnashing, and foaming parent with an elected, tax-payed position who chooses to advocate and reference with violent verbs actions against my civil rights as an equal citizen of America.
With every additional pronouncement from Sally Kern, who is always willing to talk about her discomfort with diversity, I think she's finally found the bottom of her soul, but apparently Kern's soul is infinitely deep.
June 07, 2009
By what fiat of bigoted ignorance can anyone deny me and millions of other gay and Lesbian Americans this legal right of marriage just because the gender of the two people is the same, choosing to share their bounty and their concerns for as long as they're able, be it one year or hopefully a long lifetime? How is that any different from what opposite-gendered people choose to do?
May 31, 2009
The legal strategy being used by the aforementioned groups is not working to the extent that even though there are five states, as of this writing, that allow same-gender marriage, there are over 30 states that refuse to say the "M" word, having gone through the elaborate process of amending their constitutions, but allow a piece-meal, separate-but-equal granting of some of the rights of marriage such as hospital visitation, inheritance, etc., as if they were making a mosaic of the inherent rights of tax-paying, productive gay and lesbian citizens.
April 11, 2009
If the River of Denial isn't in Africa, then it's running full flood in Oklahoma. The "fair-minded electorate" has not only voted to make Okie gay and lesbian citizens 2nd-class it will now have the opportunity to deny the right of the ballot box to otherwise qualified voters who are too financially or physically disadvantaged to acquire a government-issued photo identification card.
April 03, 2009
(OKLAHOMA CITY) As an atheist and a supporter of Americans United for Separation of Church & State I am so heartened by today's Iowa Court ruling supporting the full inclusion of gay and lesbian citizens in the social and political life of this country.
The educational deficit and the deliberate...
March 26, 2009
Racism lends itself so easily to other discriminatory "-isms" and "-phobias"
February 22, 2009
GOPers clearly want their vindictive political cake and eat it, too.
The GOPer opposition strategy is obviously to obstruct, obfuscate and obliterate as best they can any legislative or administrative bill the GOPers don't like or can't take credit for. The GOP is definitely on a trajectory that will send them out of our solar system.
February 21, 2009
Imagine if the Oklahoma branch of the GOPer party had...acted like intelligent humans and told toxic Oklahoma Rep. Sally Kern to remove herself from the party until she could conduct herself in a civil manner. Kern is also famous for deriding the equality of America's GLBT citizens, using much of the same vocabulary as Buttars.
February 15, 2009
No other previous prayer had been subjected to a vote of approval from the House membership. It wasn't the prayer itself that the GOPers objected to, though when one is trying to describe the behavior of Oklahoma GOPers, legislators in particular, one must assume they wake up every day in a bad temper.
For example, Mrs. Sally Kern, GOPer representative from HD 84, always has her knickers in a twist. So much so that I'm surprised she hasn't died of toxic twist syndrome. Here is a short history of Toxic Sally: http://tinyurl.com/yr63qo .
It was the diversity Jones alluded to that was found objectionable.
January 01, 2009
(OKLAHOMA CITY) I'm hoping you had a safe (in more ways than one) calendar New Year's celebration and are ready to commit to a political and social New Year of acquiring the legal recognition of our GLBT equality which is already ours as a right of citizenship.
This morning I watched the "The Tim...
December 27, 2008
The Kern Krew is a sad collection of some very sick puppies who relish the pain of others in order to exorcise the demons that inhabit their own little bit of skull space.
They've never matured to an adult level of acceptance of sexual or religious privacy. Kern's Krew is a collection of Peeping Toms, looking for what arouses them, be it sacred or secular.
December 15, 2008
Two states have understood the rights of gays and lesbians to have civil marriage, Massachusetts and Connecticut, with a handful of states having various marriage-like rights available but not the real thing. Close, but no cigar!
And so, thanks to our enemies, our own equality prospects been brought to the forefront and our equality will be won.
December 05, 2008
Among some of the blockbuster revelations in the article are Steve Kern's remarks, husband of infamous YouTube Queen and gun slinger Rep.Sally Kern (http://tinyurl.com/yr63qo), that have been transcribed from a phone call wherein he uses derogatory language about gay men, thinking he's talking to one of his brothers-in-Christ. Steve Kern says gay men should be forced by law to go to "education programs".
November 12, 2008
Is Oklahoma going to be the sanctuary for the Bu$h Junta-in-exile? Is Oklahoma going to be a time machine living the years of 2000-2008 over and over in a video loop?
November 08, 2008
Our self-appointed equality leaders who counsel shyness and acceptance of a later time should get out of our way. The time is long past for coyness and politeness.
Dr. M. L. King said it best in his "Letter from Birmingham Jail", April 16, 1963 with this paragraph:
We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. Frankly, I have yet to engage in a direct-action campaign that was "well timed" in the view of those who have not suffered unduly from the disease of segregation. For years now I have heard the word "Wait!"...
November 01, 2008
Why, in 20 words or less, am I forced to follow the religious tenets of people who believe wine can be turned into blood, an Arab rode a horse into "heaven", and a migrating tribe of nomads walked a path through the Red Sea while I and my partner are denied civil liberties such as those enjoyed by these cult believers who have no questions asked as to what they do with their genitals.
October 23, 2008
Does one choose to be a freaking gay GOPer or is it genetic?
October 18, 2008
A Tragedy Waiting for an Ending
October 10, 2008
To commemorate National Coming Out Day on Saturday, October 11, 2008, I am exercising my gay genetic heritage and declaring Rep. Sally Kern of Oklahoma an honorary gay/lesbian person in recognition of the fine work she has done to keep our community's issues in the forefront of media attention, both here in Oklahoma and nationwide.
October 02, 2008
Only an overwhelming number of Obama/Biden marked and accurately counted ballots can prevent the McCain/Palin combination from stealing another election in the USA.
This must not be another close vote, this must be the largest Democratic majority vote in history.
September 15, 2008
Why do gay GOPers aid and abet in the suppression of their own lives? Why do gay GOPers devalue their own lives even as they seem to know the value of money and material possessions so well?
September 06, 2008
The GOP has no compunction about trashing the Democratic Party when it furthers GOP falsehoods. Yet I've not heard of any bill promoted by the GOP to limit the use of the American flag on retail items that are invariably trashed without a second thought.
September 03, 2008
What is the message sent to American high school students when a jock knocks up the governor's daughter? He now stands on an international stage, the world watching, and can have the biggest locker room brag in the history of high school Monday mornings.
August 23, 2008
(OKLAHOMA CITY) In a story from the Washington Post by Kathleen Parker (http://tinyurl.com/4nmvyt)about how our founding American principal of separation of church and state is failing, we read that Rick Warren of Saddleback Church, where presidential candidates are vetted as to what their pillow t...
August 07, 2008
Last Tuesday GOP Rep. and Youtube queen Sally Kern revealed her latest conversation with her god and she's been named a cultural warrior for Judeo-Christian values.
But historical reality has never stood in the way of true deceiver-believers such as snake oil salesmen, bible-bangers, and homo-haters: Kerns's true holy trinity.
July 29, 2008
When was the last time an openly gay/lesbian opened fire on a collection of bible fundies hot with the fire of righteousness for the cause of religious purity? When did you last hear an openly gay/lesbian legislator use their personal privilege on the floor of their state legislature or Congress to lobby for the passage of a bill that would limit any demographic group's aspect of their protection of the law as outlined in the Bill of Rights?
The 2nd Amendment doesn't trump the First Amendment!
July 28, 2008
When was the last time an openly gay/lesbian opened fire on a collection of bible fundies hot with the fire of righteousness for the cause of religious purity? When did you last hear an openly gay/lesbian legislator use their personal privilege on the floor of their state legislature or Congress to lobby for the passage of a bill that would limit any demographic group's aspect of their protection of the law as outlined in the Bill of Rights?
July 23, 2008
Who Needs California Same-Gender Marriage When You Live in Oklahoma?
July 15, 2008
So because Limbaugh listeners, who may or may not be able to read and need to have their opinions recited to them by rote and don't understand satire or camp, are magazines supposed to dumb down their content to the level of the average Limbaugh automaton?
July 10, 2008
The glass homophobic ceilings built by the backwardly religious or the double-speaking politicians and candidates of any party won't break unless they're pushed.
It's up to us and our allies to apply that pressure until the ceiling becomes a kaleidoscope.
May 28, 2008
It's so tribal and bestial at the same time. Think going to the Prom with your opposite-gendered parent!!
May 17, 2008
If the past is prologue, I think we can expect some more Humphreys hauntings at the expense of the Oklahoma City taxpayers. It's been shown that the Constitution, its Bill of Rights, and especially the First Amendment--if applied in time--can counter the poisonous vapors that waft from Humphreys.
April 16, 2008
...this same First Amendment does NOT give either side permission to encode their religious viewpoints into CIVIL law. I feel this is where we miss the boat in establishing our LGBT birthright to equal treatment under judicial law, and not the ten laws of Deuteronomy.
March 30, 2008
Rep. Sally Kern Slaps P-FLAG's Other Cheek
Kern Insists P-FLAG is Lying and Dissembling
Too Close to Home?
(OKLAHOMA CITY) After Rep. Sally Kern met with three community leaders, one of whom is the president of the Oklahoma City P-FLAG chapter, in her Oklahoma City capital office on Thurs...
March 25, 2008
Her "discussion" in the form of a monologue centered on, what else, her bible's version of what is or is not sinful and the usual steam-tray of cafeteria-style pick-and-choose bible verses.
March 09, 2008
sallykern@okhouse.gov
Mrs. Kern:
I've just listened to the 20-minute interview you had with OKC's channel 9 in regard to the public speech you made sometime after the first of the year deriding and demeaning Oklahoma's gay/lesbian taxpaying citizens.
--Victory Fund link: http://...
February 10, 2008
Susan Eisenhower reminds us of her grandfather's famous phrase "military-industrial complex".
I would like to remind her and you that the original phrase was "military-industrial-Congressional complex".
February 02, 2008
There's nothing wrong with being gay but there is something wrong with using your Senate vote to deprive honest men and women their equality under the law even as they work to contribute to a decent American society.
January 20, 2008
The instance of Huckabee's rallying mantras is a perfect example that he, suffused with the self-reflecting love of his self-constructed Jay-sus, is not immune, rather he uses it knowingly to inflame his redneck followers to greater heights of cooperation in their own submission to the destructive force of religion.
The use of sexual penetration by antagonists used to inculcate their ideas of power and superiority is the basest level of human society.
December 22, 2007
Births of Babies in Unlikely Places --
Or the Grinch Who Impeded
Gay/Lesbian Equality
During this winter solstice time in America some of you will consider again the birth of babies in unlikely places, such as a particular middle-eastern stable during the Roman era approximately 2,000 years...
December 07, 2007
Readers,
I listened today, December 6, to the recording of JFK making his famous speech about the question of his religious faith. His being the first Roman Catholic presidential candidate had become a "millstone" around his campaign's neck.
I also listened to Mitt Romney make his seemi...
November 13, 2007
There were no gay men in America in the eighteenth century or Brokeback Mountain -- the prequel
I'm sure most of you heard about the speech that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, president of the Islamic Republic of Iran, made a few weeks ago when he said there were no homosexuals in Iran. It wou...
October 28, 2007
Peace from Christian or Islam? Give me Freethought!
(OKLAHOMA CITY) In regard to the "Islaming" of Oklahoma and the dust-up over competing religious superstitions I have to say that Islam is no more a religion of peace than Christianity is.
A semi-government Oklahoma Commission composed main...
October 19, 2007
I watched the Lauer/NBC interview earlier this month with Larry Craig earnestly peddling his innocence. The senior GOPer senator from Idaho has a peculiar intensity of speaking and a staring of the eyes that seems a bit zombie-like. But that's another article.
What occurred to me while watching...
October 09, 2007
SEVEN THOUSAND Lashes and
Twenty Blows to the Head
(OKLAHOMA CITY) As we approach the ninth anniversary of the death of Matthew Shepard (October 12, 1998) it's neither sentimental nor maudlin but realistic to reflect on two festering sores that have finally broken open this past month in the...
September 24, 2007
(OKLAHOMA CITY) Who would have thought that the successful union of a spermatozoa and an ovum would be a tax-paying citizen's certification of citizenship.
The highest court of the state of Maryland has recently joined New York and Washington state in ruling that because same-gendered people can'...
September 17, 2007
America, the light of the free market world supported by corporate welfare, citadel of freedom where freedom is locked up right now, exemplar of excessive consumption and not of the the tubercular kind--Let's have some truth and it will set you free.
Normal people of the USA don't want their mi...
September 10, 2007
Not being one who has ever solicited anonymous, or even well-known, sexual liaisons in public settings, I wasn't aware of the Larry Craig foot-tapping dance which seems so imitative of certain insects that tap on leaves and stems to communicate either territorial limits or a need for mating. Thanks...
September 05, 2007
(OKLAHOMA CITY) Gov. Howard Dean, chair of the Democratic National Committee, recently exhorted attendees at the 2007 Islamic Society of North America Convention to run for office: "Stand up and say who you are and be proud of it," he told a packed house, according to the Chicago Sun-Times newspape...
August 24, 2007
Be Gay, Just for a Day
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Who's the Real Victim
of Aggresive Religion?
Readers,
Below is posted an editorial by Geoffrey R. Stone, a law professor from Chicago University, which explains in reasonable layman terms how the proposed Matthew Shepard Act does not infringe on t...
August 17, 2007
Would Straight Adults Settle for the Treatment we LGBT Citizens Receive?
James Kirchick, assistant to the editor-in-chief of The New Republic as written an article urging the Democratic presidential candidates to shut up about gay marriage. You can read it for yourself at:
http://www.tnr.c...
July 29, 2007
I before E except after C.
L before G except Before B?
How to Spell Equality
(Oklahoma City) A few days ago I was in an email exchange with some gay guys and the thread was about the spelling of our orientational moniker/acronym commonly used as a short hand to describe us in the media....
July 13, 2007
I'm a big fan of the Internet and think it's one of the most momentous advances in human communication since our hairy, howling, hominid ancestors developed spoken language.
Then, with Gutenberg and the invention of movable type, it became possible for large numbers of people to communicate over...
June 30, 2007
The New Yorker magazine of June 25 has an op/ed by Jeffrey Toobin written before this week's raff of 5-4 SCOTUS decisions that with one exception--a stay on a death penalty execution in Texas--describes like a reading from a crystal ball the decisions that go against the progressive movement I think...
June 20, 2007
OGLPC's Tyson Award for 2007 -- Bob Lemon -- "Gay people aren't broken and don't need fixing"
(OKLAHOMA CITY) Mr. Bob Lemon, a staunch Oklahoma Democrat and devoted supporter of LGBT equality, was named the recipient of the 2007 Margaret Tyson Award given annually by the Oklahoma Gay and Lesb...
June 08, 2007
Jim Roth -- A Pioneer for Oklahoma's Centennial
Oklahoma celebrates its centennial this year and one would think that with 93% of the state's history having occurred in the 20th Century there wouldn't be much in the way of frontier left to discover in the 21st.
However, Oklahoma is full of ...
May 24, 2007
The Oklahoma Democratic Party recently concluded its 2007 state-wide Convention in Oklahoma City. After electing new state officers, the delegates passed a set of resolutions that advance by a generation the attitudes and perspectives of what it means to be a LGBT taxpaying citizen in Oklahoma.
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May 11, 2007
Representative Dan Boren (CD 2, D-OKla) voted against the Mathew Sheppard Anti-Hate Crimes Bill (HB1592) that includes gay American citizens as a protected minority. The Bush White House has announced it would veto the bill should it pass the Senate as it already has passed the House in spite of 14...
April 29, 2007
I'm concerned about the takeover of my country by the Alice-in-Wonderland anti-Democratic nature of the religious far right.
It's my contention that fundie religious observance and stridency are a brake on natural human progress and diversity.
As we've seen with the latest Supreme Court decisi...
April 19, 2007
Riddle: How Are Pregnant Citizens like Gay Citizens?
Answer: Both groups deserve their privacy!
Readers: Some of you may wonder why a gay activist would post a story on the latest US Supreme Court (SCOTUS) decision (Stenberg v. Carhart) that allows invading the bodily privacy of a pre...
April 18, 2007
The Irreverent Fred Phelps has been protesting for years at services for people dead from HIV-AIDS, presumed gay by Phelps, and at public meetings of governing bodies of municipalities, schools, libraries, or wherever Rev. Phelps thinks people are getting soft on gay equality and could use a stiffen...
April 14, 2007
Commissioner Brent Rinehart's a Piece of
...Toast, (his future, that is)
(Oklahoma City) Oklahoma County Commissioner Brent Rinehart from District 2, a practicing public homophobe, was formally arraigned earlier this month for serious Oklahoma campaign law violations (ten by my count) ranging f...
March 21, 2007
Catholic Priest Child Abuse Convictions and Bankruptcies Have a Silver Lining for Gay People of the World
The Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Peter Pace (also a practicing Roman Catholic) is in the news for stating unequivocally that gay people are immoral.
On a tour of his homela...
March 19, 2007
We've been warned! Religious fundies are going to now use the tactic of lobbying all 50 state legislatures to demand that Congress pass an anti-gay constitutional amendment outlawing same-gender marriage. (http://okstonewall.org/forums/index.php?topic=1663.0)
Ever notice that the history of hom...