food glorious food

Is it worth the waiting for?
If we live 'til eighty four
All we ever get is gru...el!
Ev'ry day we say our prayer --
Will they change the bill of fare?
Still we get the same old gru...el!
There is not a cust, not a crumb can we find,
Can we beg, can we borrow, or catch,
But there's nothing to stop us from getting a thrill
When we all close our eyes and imag...ine

Food, glorious food!
Hot sausage and mustard!
While we're in the mood --
Cold jelly and custard!
Peas, pudding and saveloys!
What next is the question?
Rich gentlemen have it, boys --
In-di-gestion! (by Lionel Bart)

This song is sung in the play "Oliver", by all of the misfortunate and lower class boys. It is sung as the boys imagine the world if they too had all of the goodies their rich keepers enjoyed. It is sung as a means for the boys to vent their frustration about a world in which they are less then and at the mercy of those in power. It is sung to say we deserve all that you have.

The Senate took on the people's business, for once, and some Senators where brave enough, bold enough, and big enough to have voted with a conscience in doing what was right for all of America.

Repealing DATD is what is right for all of America because it makes a statement that equal in this country is never correct when it is equal but separate. Repealing DATD is what is right for America because it now permits those who wish to be open and honest about themselves to speak their mind and heart. Repealing DADT is what is right for America because it states we won't tolerate you hating me, bullying me, denying me based on prejudice instead of truth.

Senator John McCain tried to stop the momentum of fair and just throughout the process of repeal. He sited passage and verse from books of hate, bias and homophobia. He tarnished his tenure as a member of the troops, and rusted his own valor and bravery when he was a POW. He forgot how he fought the tyranny and torture of a nation whose mission was to stop democracy and equal justice for all. He became a hateful man who needed to scapegoat others to keep his own ego alive. Those in this nation who will now ring their hands and wonder if the devil has taken over America will rally in support of his and the many other Republicans who voted no on equality and will be the sad shell of what truly being human is all about.

And now the accolades profusely pour from the mouths of the LGBT community, thanking those BRAVE members of the Senate for doing what...for doing the right thing! We now have made hero's of the Senators who voted for equal rights who voted for the meaning of the Constitution, who fought bigotry and bias. And now that they have given this one tidbit of correct conscience to right a wrong, I just wonder if these same hero's feel their duty of honor is over and will relapse into the dark world of denial.

Today they did not pass the Dream Act, they did not pass a bill to aid the First Responders, they reluctantly gave the unemployed a meager sum money to live while allowing the rich to drown in extra cash. And what about DOMA?

Food glorious food, something we all need to survive, something that seems so fair to share, something that makes us all equal because all of us want to survive. But as in the play "Oliver", food does not come too easy for those who happen to be in the minority, for those who for some reason or other were left out of the handling the controls. The Gays and Lesbians finally got their one morsel of food, and can sit at the table as equals. Yeah, but so what! It is not something we as Gays earned, it should have been something we as Gays received as equals to those so pious and pompous who denied it.

Food glorious food, I want to eat as much as anyone else and not wait my turn until they are done gorging. I as a Gay man, a Jew, a middle class American, a son or daughter of an illegal, a Muslim, a person of color.

As an American I expect nothing more then equal and will not tolerate separate but equal! Food glorious food the first course is served why not begin the real banquet!