Message from srae

[Anonymous]

S. Rae

I have long been a fan the Beats and of Alan Watts, eastern philosopher, and also Allen Ginsberg, poet and Buddhist. In 1996, I was at the University of Arkansas studying writing. Ginsberg was guest lecturer for 2 days at Hot Springs, Ark , a famous 40s retreat, where he conducted a chant / meditation workshop which I participated in. He was somewhat frail in body but his soul and spirit were a force to be reckoned with, as was always true of his life.

If he were alive he might have just married his gay partner in celebration of their LOVE--our Constitution's promise of freedom for ALL. That's why Proposition 8 is so disturbing. A rainbow-colored me shouts NO to prop 8. The ads have been disturbing in their close-mindedness and in their ultra-conservatism. Sunday's Times had an ad quoting Leviticus about homosexual love as an abomination--a sin.

But it failed to quote 2 Commandments: "Do not covet your neighbor's wife.
Do not commit adultery."

Jesus had the simple answer: "You who are without sin cast the first stone."

Later, Ginsberg gave a 2 hour reading /chanting of his poetry.

All from memory. Bless the Ginsberg's of the world.

Howl on.