JohnBisceglia's Comments (310)

“We also need more LGBTQ Black, Asian, and Latinos to COME OUT. Most of us can make a long list of "out" Whites, but the lists get quite a bit shorter for most other races.”

“"Catholic Church Threatens To Starve The Homeless To Prove a Point"”

“"Review our complicity" - wow....tha­t says it all. If we wanna STOP being dumped on all of the time, we need to crawl out from under the toliet seat, stand up COLLECTIVELY, and find our dignity as taxpaying, contributing members of society.”

“Clueless and Selfish =

The people who ALREADY have these basic rights and have NO IDEA of the suffering that occurs when rights are absent, and who think the LGBTQ community is being selfish and impatient for demanding the very same rights they expect and enjoy.

You are expecting us to shoulder the burdens every American is dealing with now, PLUS unimaginable financial and emotional suffering. Let's watch YOUR father die, and YOUR mother be denied her husband's 30-year pension, and watch her become homeless soon afterward, if she wasn't already tossed out of the house for being a legal stranger. For starters.

Take today, as we learn that Rhode Island's GOP Governor, Don Carcieri, vetoed a bill allowing funeral decisions for domestic partners. EVIL.”

“YES - equal rights = equal taxes. I've also seen "activists" look shocked when tax revolt is suggested - many forget that to be an "activist" you have to actually DO something and not just think it.

Here's a great artical to withdraw consent from the state if you are tired of supporting the U.S. (and perhaps lack the resources to move to another country).

How to withdraw consent from the state
http://www.wendymcelroy.com/print.php?item.2767.7”

“Joan and Mary are 2 souls. SOUL = SOUL. All souls are equal. Two souls deserve marriage rights.

If religious institutions are allowed to OUT-purchase our chance to "win" an equal right, then those are HATE institutions. Perhaps one day burning down a HATE institution will be seen as self-defense instead of an "act of hate". Remember - it is NOT a "fair fight" - we are given FEW OTHER OPTIONS to protect our family in 2009 except attack those who are attacking us.

I also think paying one penny for the rights and protections other Americans expect as their birthright is a sickness. It smells like victimhood, akin to paying off the bully who says he'll beat you up if you don't donate your lunch money. If every LGBTQ in America, along with allies, all told the state and federal government that their taxes will be withheld until ALL AMERICANS have their constitutional right to equal protection, perhaps this secondary sickness of allowing votes on our family's safety and security would end for good.”

“I've given up on gay organizations AND any other type of (feigned) "fighting" I've seen out there. If we just lined up the children in America who are hurt by LGBTQ legal discrimination (and reacted more like mothers), we'd be fighting with MUCH more than clever signs and phone calls.

I agree 1,000% with Mixner's line - "How can we have any dignity, honor or pride in ourselves if we validate this continued process of ballot box terrorism?" - so I take my fight directly to the FEDS, since THEY allow religious institutions to intrude upon my life in US law.

No equal protection?
No taxes paid.

And this fight WILL end in my own death if they try to imprison me. But don't waste your time criticizing me for being "stupid-sh­ort-sighte­d-insane-w­asting-my-­life-not-h­elping-the­-movement"­, etc. I sincerely do NOT care what you think; I need to stand up for myself in a country where no one else will. I just know I will live my life WITHOUT bending over to a government that relentlessly abuses us psychologically, emotioanlly, and financially.

You do what YOU need to do. Find YOUR dignity.”

“Either government STOPS allowing votes on constituti­onally-gua­ranteed rights, or Queers will need to continue to publicly acknowledge those institutions and individuals who are hurting our families - each and every time. Shame them publicly. Let them know that despite the fact that they are ALLOWED TO bring emotional suffering to our families and steal our pensions at the ballot box, that doesn't mean that they SHOULD do it. IT IS EVIL - IT IS WRONG.

What?...yo­u don't think this is PERSONAL?

Ask these folks how PERSONAL it was to be denied rights;
http://gaytaxprotest.blogspot.com/2009/02/cruel-suffering-due-to-marriage.html

Ask their children.”

“YES - I've been screaming this for years.

And we need GENDER-LESS LAW, where, for example - the response and punishment for violently raping a straight man is EQUAL TO the response and punishment for raping women, gay men, and FTM or MTF transgender persons. The gay press is well-aware of how rapes of gay men and MTF transgender persons are often dismissed by police, since "we wanted it anyway". Or an intersex person may marry a straight man, or a FTM transgender person may marry a bisexual man. I know of couples like these. EQUAL SOULS.

And women already know how invasive the male hands of government are.....or the pay inequity of the business world.

No Taxation Without Equality (FOR MAINE)
http://gaytaxprotest.blogspot.com/2008/08/civil-disobedience.html

"Let them march all they want, as long as they continue to pay their taxes."
- Alexander Haig, U.S. Sec. of State, June 12, 1982”

“The LGBTQ community owes America NOTHING until equal.

NOTHING.

Those who truly believe that until America INCLUDED us, we will EXCLUDE our income taxes, may stop paying their taxes and prepare themselves for any confrontations from the government. Those who are afraid of rocking their own boat may do it "legally"; a how to by David Gross, a war-tax resister, is below:

How To Resist the Federal Income Tax Through the “Don’t Owe Nothin’” Method
http://sniggle.net/Experiment/index.php?entry=howto”

“(FIX) - "It's beyond immoral, and enough to inspire some of us to stop paying taxes and bear arms to protect our family from church and governmental abuse."”

“Yeah to HPA!

Can you imagine the day when the number of straight allies outnumbers the population of the (out) LGBTQ community? Only then wil this fight truly transform from a "gay rights" issue to a "human rights" issue.

I cannot believe America allows some families to vote to BRING HARM AND SUFFERING to other families. It's beyond immoral, and enough to inspire some of us to stop paying taxes and bear arms to protect their our from church and governmental abuse. YES - that is what some people do when they've REACHED THEIR ABSOLUTE LIMIT - I'm so there.

Until America stops demonizing and using psychological terrorism against us (here are your rights, nope, just kidding, taking them away now) - we owe America NOTHING.”

“How many people here celebrated Columbus Day, versus felt sick about the "celebration"? I had the exact same reaction about "original sin".”

“"Constitution" - not constitutional, but we might as well add the Bill of Rights to the list of T.P. substitutes, since for gays it is about as useful in the U.S.A.”

“"While many gays and lesbians indulge in "intellectual debate" over when we should fight for a word, others of us have suffered horribly because we need the legal rights and protection­s."

Precisely - Heterosexuals would instantly stop paying taxes if they were in our shoes for one week - It would be LAUGHABLE to them to "wait" and endure the suffering we endure daily while other people decide if the constitutional is more than a toliet-paper substitute.”

“Good Grief - We need to have more religions created by WOMEN, with accompanying religious texts written by them.

Maybe then all of this "I'm so terrified of another guy's weenie" crap would end in religion, the scared straight men would shut up and stop trying to demonize the gay men whom they often use as a free escort service during their later married years, and sanity would prevail.”

“"I AM OPPOSED TO PROVIDING TAXPAYER BENEFITS TO ANYONE BASED ON MARITAL STATUS." -

LOL. Funny how tax-payers are already paying for gay divorce and they don't even know it.”

“"P.S. for all of those people who use children as a weapon here" -

LOL. I hear ya. I use the example of children as an argument FOR marriage equality.

There are SO many children in gay-led families and there are a multitude of blended families who love and raise children (some are society's abandoned/unwanted children) - marriage inequality hurts these families in countless ways. When inequality separates a mother and her child or keeps a daughter from seeing her mother in the hospital, that is evil harm due to the legal hatred of our families. Our children.

I also wonder how all of these anti-gay amendments (as in PROP 8) have affected children's development. Did ANYONE consider children's psychological well-being as these youngsters saw signs FOR or AGAINST their Mommy? Against their own family? Signs everywhere that were YES or NO - your family wins or loses - again, we're talking about how SAFE children feel in the world. It is child abuse.

I thought it was criminal to wage psychological warfare on tax-paying citizens by giving them LONG-OVERDUE civil rights - and then allowing society to vote them away. Revolting. Worth a revolution, at least in thought, if not in action.”

“LOL - not all gays will allow imprisonment for refusing to be abused my the Federal Government. They may TRY to put us in jail, and some may submit, but others will FIGHT because we are AS MAD AS HELL AND NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE. "Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death"”

“You'd be surprised how many gays in America have stopped paying taxes and have been smart enough to move their money around and away from the IRS, not so much to bring change as much to right a wrong imposed on them (apartheid). I was a tax-resister until disabled; now I just advocate a complete tax revolt. I also advocate arming oneself if needed when and if the FEDS try to tax you without your constitutional rights; what a truly AMERICAN idea for this 4th of July.

Go here for info: http://www.gaytaxprotest.blogspot.com”

“Uh, Heterosexu­ally-Ident­ified men will CONTINUE to marry women, and yes some of them WILL CONTINUE to secretly seek sex with men while married. SINCE TIME IMMEMORIAL.

I seriously doubt Heterosexuals will stop "plooking" each other no matter what (a nod to Frank Zappa).”

“We ALL suffer is right. I haven't been able to work since 2004 due to the mess that regularly happens when long-term relationships end without a legal framework to protect BOTH parties. Gee, could it be that SOME gays are as selfish and vengeful as our straight counterparts? (duh)

I've relied on welfare since 2006 - quite a chunk of change for 3 years. Now I am on SSI for disability, which is good for me (more money given), but bad for tax-payers (who will foot the bill, and will continue to pay for ALL repercussions of discrimination).

1983-2004 = Contributing member for society (very active in music education, church, school, volunteer, and a tax-payer)

2006-present - Unable to be active in society; 100% dependent on your tax dollars.

YOU DO THE MATH, AMERICA.”

“Would we permit 2 different people go into a store, pay the same tax rates and prices, yet allow ONE person to leave with much, MUCH less?

Gee, I wonder if CA state's lack of tax revenue had anything to do with PROP 8?”

“Dear ANTI-Equality folks.

Thank you for paying our taxes this year.

We'd be glad to pay them next year IF we have what you have - Federal Equality.”

“David's article points out the absurdity of what we've allowed "law" to become. Personally? F*ck the "law". They may have to drag my corpse away, but I will die knowing that I did NOT submit to a government that demonizes and legally HATES my family.

I did notice tax revenues are way down in CA - perhaps I'm not the only gay person saying F*CK YOU to the I.R.S.?”