Actionable Advice

First goal

Remove all child molesters from positions of moral authority.

If you are pro LGBTQ rights, I think the SINGLE most important thing you can work on is putting child molester priests (preachers, Rabbis, etc) in prison for their crimes.

That's a previously published unsupported Opinion. Here's an attempt to support or explain that opinion.

I don't know how well I say it, but I have a piece called Trauma and being LGBTQ and it's probably not the only place I try to say that I believe that:

1. 2000 percent of humanity has BAGGAGE about sexual and gender stuff.

2. Simply BEING LGBTQ tends to trigger everyone you meet about their issues and then they take it out on you.

Christianity trends extremely homophobic and the entire PLANET knows the Catholic Church has a POLICY of moving child molester priests and sweeping it under the rug. Priests are supposed to be moral authorities teaching us how to live right and generally speaking, modeling appropriate behavior is the single most powerful way to teach other people how to live right.

That "Do as I say, not as I do." schtick generally does poorly, before you get into "Oh, and child RAPE and covering it up is one of THE most socially, emotionally, psychologically and spiritually poisonous things in the known universe."

As ONE idea: If you were assaulted, you may be able to file a police report or otherwise advocate for meaningful change. Your goal should be a zero tolerance policy for child molesters being PAID to serve as moral authorities teaching people how to live right.

(IF they invent a genuine CURE for pedophilia, get back to me with policies for what then. In the meantime: If you molest kids, you don't belong in such a job. Full stop.)

Second Goal

An adequate supply of decent housing for small households.

I have an ENTIRE website dedicated to fleshing out ideas on HOW to do that. It's called Project SRO.

I've thought a lot about this and done a lot of research and this blog began because the LGBTQ crowd is at crazy high risk of homelessness and part of that is absolutely prejudice and not wanting those people around here.

A larger part is probably an intersection of:

1. Housing is generally too expensive and homelessness is on the rise.

2. Heteronormative culture pressures people to get married and move into a home designed for a nuclear family and we mostly don't provide meaningful other housing options.

3. The LGBTQ crowd probably has challenges making enough money and that compounds the problem.

If we solved the housing issue such that anyone can potentially work part-time in a service industry job and scrape by, this most likely becomes vastly less of an issue for the LGBTQ crowd.