Irony 2, Right Wing Nil

I have been corresponding with one of my former classmates. The one whose christian music career I was wondering about. He's still very christian. He was a traveling praise and worship leader for five years, now he's an engineer/producer in Nashville, in the christian music biz.

He and I always had a very jovial relationship. We constantly teased each other, but we could be very serious and have long heart-to-hearts as well. He joked in his first email to me, saying that my first boyfriend (who was a friend of his) would be at the reunion. I laughed long and hard on that one. You see, this first highschool boyfriend of mine LJBF'd me. That's "Let's Just Be Friends" for those at home. Upon pressing him further, he told me that he felt led to dump me because my body was too great a temptation and distraction for him. My looks began leading him astray from his walk with the lord. I don't need to go into the self-loathing and shame that I felt about what he said. I was deeply hurt and spent a lot of time in prayer trying to figure out why god gave me an hourglass figure only to have boys dump me because of it.

So, you can imagine my surprise when my former friend tells me that my ex-boyfriend denounced his faith completely about six years ago and wants nothing to do with his christian friends, or the town where we grew up! I suddenly find myself scouring the internet trying to find any trace of him. Oddly enough, I emailed him around 1996 or 1997 after I had left the faith. He was very brief with me and essentially asked me not to email him again. I didn't come out to him, then. Now I wish I had. Not that I would have wanted to get together with him, because I wouldn't have. Rather, I would have been interested in learning about his process of losing faith. I would have liked for that door to remain open.

And in other ironic news... Has anyone been listening or watching the Republican National Convention? Well the GOP has purchased boatloads of tickets to broadway shows to entertain its delegates. Yes, you read that right. Broadway, which is quite possibly queer America's holy grail, is alive and well during the Republican National Convention. Broadway, which I would conservatively estimate has at least a 20 percent margine of queer folk in it's employ, is strutting it's stuff in front of right-wing buffoons. I don't fault Broadway... A gig is a gig and everyone's got to eat. But how blind and federal-marriage-ammendment-stupid can these delegates be? Apparently not that dumb. Convention organizers made sure that only appropriate shows would be supported. How do you spell denial? I spell it R-N-C.