"Sam Alito On Brokeback Mountain"

[kpete]

Sam Alito On Brokeback Mountain

What do the bitter neocon nominee and the amazing Oscar-bound film have in common?

- By Mark Morford, SF Gate Columnist
Friday, January 20, 2006

.... Of course Alito is not about to be appointed to deflect "Brokeback"'s message per se, but rather, he is being installed in general reaction to, in attack on, in preparation for what "Brokeback" and its ilk represent. Which is, of course, the aforementioned awakening, the shift, the movement toward something new and different and open. Do you see?

This is the ever-present push-pull of the culture. This is how we stumble toward the light, gasping and bleeding and with painful rope burns on our wrists. After all, there is no progress forward -- intellectual, spiritual, sexual or otherwise -- without a concomitant blood-curdling scream from the power brokers and the religiously terrified to hold it all back. Change brings fear. Sexuality brings confusion. For every person who has his rigid homophobic ideology shattered by "Brokeback"'s emotional hammer, there is a confused neocon who redoubles his efforts to replant it.


But it doesn't matter. No matter the heat and bile of the resistance, no matter how brutish or sanctimonious the stranglehold of our leadership, no matter how many complaints about nipples or wailings about intelligent design or accusations of a "gay agenda," no matter how many uptight neocon judges they appoint, progress still manages to find the cracks, to slip through the holes, to seek the sun. Consciousness expands anyway. The river flows on. The awakening continues. It is always the way.

And the Bushes and the Cheneys and the Rumsfelds, the Gonzalezes and the James Dobsons and the Sam Alitos of the world, they can only stand at the base of that mountain of new awareness and pass their laws and beat their chests and scream their resistance as the mystics and the masters just smile that ageless, knowing smile and walk away.

read the whole story at:
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2006/01/20/notes012006.DTL&type=printable

[graywarrior]

1. I'm headed out to see Brokeback in a few.

[mom cat]

2. It is damned good.

[graywarrior]

5. Should I bring a box of kleenex?

[Strathos]

7. bring two

it's a tear jerker

[graywarrior]

8. ruh roh

I hate it when people catch me crying.

[rodeodance]

3. Mark Morford does great work.

[rodeodance]

4. You can email him here

[email protected]

[f-bush]

6. I went to see just because the fundies bitched about it so much!

[bigwillq]

9. What did you think of it??

:shrug:

[f-bush]

10. not bad...

beautiful settings. I belong to a Reconciling Ministry Congregation in Tacoma. We are an open and affirming congregation who seeks gay folks to come and worship with us and be a part of our congregation. It does my heart good to see such a positive response to the film by so many and I must admit that my darker loves to see the fundies have fits about the flick.