Winter Wickedness

It is Friday morning and so far it appears that the Winter Wickedness event is going forward as planned complete with a significantly upgraded venue and amenities from previous central Ohio events. Much thanks is due to the hard work, vision, entrepreneurial risk tolerance, and business sense of the event's organizers, and volunteers.

Once again, for a weekend, a small portion of the world will become liberated territory within which the BDSM/poly community's culture will be the norm, and, briefly, we will be able to be who we are openly, without pretense.

It is interesting to note that once again Christians, historical victims of persecution and discrimination, are doing their darnedest to prevent people who choose to live lives outside of the precepts of the myth they base their lives on the right to have a self-determined existance. It is interesting to have a huge cult of folks who worship a dead corpse of a man ritually nailed to a cross after non-consensual flogging, celebrate ritually symbolically eating human flesh and drinking blood, and believe in the resurrection of the dead, proclaiming that the belief and erotic rituals of other people are too weird to be tolerated. I hope we will have an absolute freak show of evangelicals carrying on outside our event. It is kind of like having an extra zoo exhibit sideshow with no additional registration fee.

We have had an exceptional bump in our stats since we posted the previous post containing the NCSF alert about the Winter Wickedness event, urging everyone to please support the Holiday Inn for hosting us. Many thanks to those of you we know have called and written the Holiday Inn locally and corporately in support of our rights to assemble and rent public accommodations. It is clear from our statcounter analysis that some of the visits have been from folks at the very websites of those who would deny us our rights to assemble and practice our lives as we choose in private. To those visitors, we hope you found your time here with our family educational and edifying. If you have anything constructive to add to the conversation here we welcome you. We've had very stimulating conversations with Christians here before. We're pretty well studied in theology, and more importantly bible history, and enjoy the clash of ideas, especially with evangelicals who are generally even more ignorant of Christian history than mainstream Christians.

The fact is that Christianity is a specious myth. We have absolutely no problem with you choosing to base your life on it, any more than we would care if you chose to base your life on Star Trek, or Harry Potter. In fact, we support and have dedicated our lives to advocating that all people be able to live their lives exactly as they choose, so long as they do not infringe upon or harm the rights of others. And we very much want you to be able to continue your bizarre rituals and continue to delude yourselves that there is some basis to your belief system.
We support you, that is, until you begin to prescribe that others have to practice your faith or live their lives in concert with your beliefs and values, whether they believe as you do our not.

Christians you have been given a pass in this society for a long time and your history is one of continual persecution and hate crimes against others in our country. It is time to end your protected status. There is a growing movement in this country to end the tax exemption of religious institutions. I for one am going to actively join that movement after this.

There is no reason why we, as tax payers, should give your religious institutions a free pass on taxes so that you can use those resources to advocate that my family and others not be able to have our rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Get your religion off my rights.

All the best,

Tom

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined.