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Member since: July 20, 2011
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I greatly appreciate Mr Hamilton's "On the Cuspidor of a New Year". When Oklahoma's US Senator Jim Inhofe decided to insult Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender military personnel last month, he must have thought "what a great CHRISTmas gift for my constituents". I am sure some Tulsans were pleased he picked on the gays. Perhaps he did it in honor of Jesus birthday. Holidays are supposed to be about loving your neighbor, caring for the suffering among us, and doing random acts of kindness like paying off a stranger's layaway at Kmart. So Mr Hamilton focuses on the obvious result of Senator Inhofe's remarks. Everybody got hurt by his thoughtless words. No one was left out of the friction as community leaders scrambled to see what side they should pick and talk radio fueled the fire of bitterness and a city was divided. But the holidays are over and what came of Senator Inhofe's well placed grench attempt to still the joy of the holidays? Thank you Mr Hamilton for pointing out the value of diversity and inclusion, because the gays of Tulsa went on about their "agenda" (Inhofe's words not mine). The very week he insulted the gay community they raised thousands for needy Tulsans, served meals to the hungry, collected pet food for destitute pet owners, stocked a community food pantry, purchased presents for those on fixed incomes, and the next week they attended their houses of worship as multiple faith traditions were observed. The Dennis R. Neill Equality Center was opened every day in December and even hosted a New Years Eve Party for those in recovery from alcohol and drug abuse. The help line took calls from the isolated, abused, battered, and suicidal. All of this was done during the holidays. All of this is done everyday at the Dennis R Neill Equality Center. And all of this will be done in 2012 as the members of Oklahomans for Equality will continue to fulfill their mission to seek equal rights for all marginalized people and serve the citizens of Tulsa. Toby Jenkins Executive Director Oklahomans for Equality.
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I am so pleased to hear that $1.12 of my oppressive tax burden is being used to fund OETA. I love documentaries, old movies, Antique Road Show, news shows like Frontline, and watching Barney with my Granddaughter. Arnold Hamilton's feature "FORBIDDEN FANTASY" has just informed me that Representative Sally Kern and the other Oklahoma Christian Taliban Representatives want to cut Oklahoma State funding to OETA because it is pro-liberal and anti-conservative. My Oklahoma Mother was a good southern Christian woman, so I can not put in print what I am really thinking. She took me to Church to learn the scriptures and school to learn science and depended on public television to entertain me and inform me about those who were culturally different than our family, and how a BILL makes it to Congress,and what a conjunction did when you sandwiched it in a train. She also made us watch the Watergate hearings that dreadful summer and said "KEEP AN EYE on your elected officials." So Statehouse find some other funds to cut and leave OETA alone. Hopefully some kid in rural Oklahoma is being educated, informed, and entertained by OETA and will grow up to replace Sally Kern and her kind. Thanks Arnold for exposing yet another "how to make Oklahoma look dumb" scheme.
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Thank you Holly for featuring this story related to discrimination, censorship, and freedom of speech and expression. We are so grateful for the Philbrook Museum bringing Richard Meyer to Tulsa.
Toby Jenkins
Oklahomans for Equality
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