North Carolina bans Same-Sex Marriage ~ Amendment 1

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We have yet another state that amended its constitution to discriminate against a community that doesn’t live up to their narrow-minded beliefs. Who are you to force your sense of morality on the rest of society when you bleed sin by your hatred? How dare you vote to downgrade someone to a second class citizen? Gay marriage doesn’t affect your heterosexual marriage. It doesn’t devalue your relationship. It doesn’t take away your protections under the law. So, why are you hell bent on destroying families that doesn’t fit your limited definition of a family?

And before you tell me what you think the bible says, let me tell you this………

I wholeheartedly believe in God. God is all around us and in all the beauty and greatness we see. I also believe that God is love. I further believe that when two consenting people find love in one another, they have a duty to be truthful with their love and share it with the world. Love makes us a better person. Love makes us a better people. Love makes us a better society. Love makes us a better world. Love is the most profound, precious, and fleeting gifts we are ever so fortunate to receive. So, I will never accept that God disapproves of love shared between two people of the same gender, because I believe wherever there is love, there is where you will find God.

Janet Jackson’s New NutriSystem Commercial

Janet Jackson shows us how NutriSystem worked for her. I’m tempted to say pass the plate! While I’m happy she seems to finally be happy with her size, she needs to know there hasn’t ever been a moment when she wasn’t beautiful. I love you Jan.

Leave Michael Alone

When will these vultures stop? They tore Michael apart in life and now in death. I didn’t think anyone could stoop any lower until I learned the bed Michael Jackson died in will be up for auction. Are we fresh out of human decency? Michael was a human being with a heart, soul, mind, and spirit. Yet, people used and abused him as if he were an object. Radios are used less than Michael was in life. Michael took his last breath alone, scared, with the weight of the world on his shoulders, and in unspeakable pain. He felt abandoned in life and he was abandoned at the moment of death. How much suffering must one man endure? Michael’s death proved there are limits to suffering. Michael’s death proved it does matter how you treat people.

Entertainers are people, nothing more or less, just people. They cry salty tears just as we do. Painful words hurt them just as they hurt us. They are not immune to your hatred, insensitivity, cruelty, lies, and speculations, because they live in some perceived fantasy world. Nothing about the world they live in is a fantasy. However, the rest of you can’t see it, because you choose to close your eyes to the misery of others. You choose not to look beyond your existence. The world is bigger than what you see in front of you. You don’t have to walk in the shoes of the person next to you to know their suffering is as real as yours.

I remember saying as a kid, sticks and stone will break my bones, but words never hurt. It was absurd then as it is absurd today. Broken bones heal or can be fused together; I can’t say the same for the damage words leave behind. The sting of a bitter tongue can be greater than the force of a thousand swords. Viciousness slices through the core of our souls and most will forever wear the scars; not even death will hide them.

Michael is free from the brutality of your tongues. Never again will he shed a tear of pain. While Michael is free of your ignorance, his family is not. He has three beautiful children, a loving mother, caring father, devoted sisters, supportive brothers, and a list of caring relatives. They are all affected by the filth you spew. Why must they hear or read your unkind words simply, because you have the right to say them? With right comes responsibility. You are responsible for the misery your words inflict upon others. Michael’s family is forever changed by his loss. And just so you know, time doesn’t make death any easier. I’m never more than a blink away from the heartache of losing the people I dearly cherish. What sometimes get me through the day is listening to family & friends share loving memories of my dad and grandma. Entertainment families are no different. Hearing how Michael made a person smile makes another moment of peace for them attainable. On the other hand, listening to one of you fame-seeking parasites bash Michael, rips through them like a knife to the heart.

What is it about this family or entertainers in general make you think they aren’t deserving of love, kindness, and respect? What is it about this family or entertainers in general make you think they are immune to your hate? What makes you think the camera and the internet is your platform to hurt others? Have you not learned that words hurt? Have you not learned that words destroy people? Have you not learned that words kill? You have the right to feel whatever you feel and to think whatever you think; but you don’t have the right to weaponize your tongue against others.

Update: As of 11/15/2011, Michael’s death bed has been removed from the auction.

Eyes of Fire

Miss Jackson can’t be stopped!

Janet Jackson is Getting Back “Up Close and Personal” With U

My love, Janet Jackson, is resuming her Up Close and Personal Tour this summer. I saw her in Los Angeles and Las Vegas. You can read about my experience on a previous post titled “I was Up Close and Personal”. If you haven’t seen her yet, you are missing out on a truly incredible experience. However, you are in luck, because she is getting back on the road, rocking those jeans and giving it to you “All Nite”. Below is a sample of what’s to come: (NOTE: Just in case the ears of fate are listening, I would love to attend all of her concerts on the 2nd leg. Better yet, I’d be honored to go on tour with her. There has to be some job I can do; documenter for her website, cook, something:)

This sneak peek doesn’t do her justice, so get your butt out to see her perform live. A second video can be found on my youtube page http://www.youtube.com/anhouroflove

Tour Dates *tickets can be purchased at www.janetjackson.com/tour*

June 19, 2011 Copenhagen, DK Falkoner Theatre

June 24, 2011 Berlin, DE Tempodrom at Ostbahnhof

June 26, 2011 Paris, FR Olympia

June 27, 2011 Paris, FR Olympia

June 30, 2011 London, GB Royal Albert Hall

July 2, 2011 London, GB Royal Albert Hall

July 3, 2011 London, GB Royal Albert Hall

July 5, 2011 Dublin, IE Grand Canal Theater

August 1, 2011 Montreal, Quebec, CA Bell Centre

August 3, 2011 Hamilton, Ontario, CA Hamilton Place Theatre

August 4, 2011 Bethal, NY Bethal Woods Center for the Arts

August 6, 2011 Holmdel, NJ PNC Bank Arts Center

August 8, 2011 Upper Darby, PA Tower Theatre

August 9, 2011 Portsmouth, VA nTELOS Wireless

August 11, 2011 Cinncinnati, OH PNC Pavilion

August 12, 2011 Cleveland, OH Jacobs Pavilion at Nautica

August 14, 2011 Milwaukee, WI Milwaukee Theatre

August 16, 2011 Detroit, MI Fox Theatre

August 17, 2011 Indianapolis, IN Indiana State Fair

August 19, 2011 Minneapolis, MN Orpheum Theatre

August 21, 2011 Des Moines, IA Iowa State Fair

August 22, 2011 Kansas City, MO Starlight Theatre

August 26, 2011 Vancouver, British Columbia, CA Queen Elizabeth Theater

August 29, 2011 Seattle, WA McCaw Hall

August 30, 2011 Portland, OR Keller Auditorium

September 1, 2011 Los Angeles, CA Greek Theatre

October 18, 2011 Perth, AU Burswood Dome

October 22, 2011 Adelaide, AU Adelaide Festival Theatre

October 26, 2011 Melbourne, AU Arts Centre State Theater

October 27, 2011 Melbourne, AU Arts Centre State Theater

November 2, 2011 Gold Coast, AU Gold Coast Convention Centre

November 5, 2011 Sydney, AU Opera House Concert Hall

November 6, 2011 Sydney, AU Opera House Concert Hall

Eye for an Eye

When will they learn that an eye for an eye leaves everyone blind?

A Moment of Peace

Everywhere I look there’s violence, rape, torture, murder, earthquakes, tsunamis, illnesses, disease, hunger, greed, misfortune, envy, jealousy, hatred, ignorance, intolerance, and death. I can’t escape it. Just for once, I want to read a newspaper or watch the news without a single report of disaster. Is asking for peace truly asking too much even if it’s just for moment?