Jesus, save me from your followers!!

I don't know...maybe it's because it's almost Easter, or maybe it's because of the recent Terri Schiavo uproar, but I am just absolutely sick and tired of so-called "Evangelical Christians" telling me how to live my life! Is it just me, or has this country become so engulfed in a sort of pseudo "new-Christian" movement that we are seriously loosing our grip on reality?

Let the woman die I say! Who wants to live like a vegetable with just a feeding tube providing sustenance? Do you? NOPE! And I bet Ms. Schiavo doesn't really want to either. But of course, her parents are unable to let her go, even after 15 years of this ordeal and her husband is viewed as "Mr. Shady" who is trying to hide something.

Ya know what? Maybe he is hiding something! And maybe yes, Ms. Schiavo's parents deserve the right to keep their daughter alive if they so want (as long as they care for her).

I don't really have a problem with either side.

What I DO have a problem with, is our United States Congress getting involved and wasting precious tax dollars and their time sticking their noses where they don't belong.

SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE! There...do I need to say it again?

What happens to Ms. Schiavo is her family's decision..let them duke it out in the courts (oh wait, they already did!) and let the judge's ruling be the deciding factor and not our Government's extreme right leanings.

That's not why our members of Congress are there. They are not there to legislate our moral choices. To each his own I say!

If Thomas Jefferson were alive today, he'd be fuming! Leave the woman alone and leave her family alone--DO NOT GET INVOLVED. It's none of the Government's business what the Schiavo's decide!

What's next? Government deciding what we can or can not eat? Government deciding who we can live with? What books we read? What stories we tell? Who we marry?

I'm sick and tired of this "neo-Conservative" movement, which portends to be "moral" and is obviously anything but.

Morality has NOTHING to do with religion, and the sooner we are able to understand that in this country, the better off we will be. Plenty of average folks were raised without religion in their lives (count me as one of them), and we still know how to behave as law abiding, yes, MORAL citizens. I don't steal, cheat or lie or kill or tell anyone else what to do with their lives or what god to pray to or anything else.

Why can't Jesus' s followers do the same?

In these few days before Easter, during this most "holy" of weeks, can't the Christian Right leave us be for just a few moments?

Can't they see that the true beauty of Christ's message was in the "turn the other cheek", the "live and let live", the "accept everyone" part of his doctrine?

Jesus's true message was that, (and he knew this cause he was an outsider himself), a person should not be persecuted (or hung on a cross), just because they are different.

Words to think about this week, while our country wastes stupid amount of time, ink and money asking the Goverment to legislate morality.

AMEN!

Crazy! Crazy! Crazy! Enjoying Spring with Poetry!

Well, it's been a crazy couple of weeks, which is why I haven't had time to post. Today is the first day of Spring, and Mother Nature seems to be in a good mood, cause we've got sunny skies and a nice cool day, but not cold.

I don't know about you, but LuvDusty is tired of the hat and coat wearing season, and is ready for some shorts and Tee action! Right? : )

There is lots I want to talk about, but don't have the time to post anything note-worthy at the moment, so I'll leave it at this: Let's enjoy Spring and make ourselves happy today!

A little madness in the Spring
Is wholesome even for the King.

-Emily Dickinson

Thank you Dusty! For all the wonderful music!
Originally uploaded by LuvDusty.

Thank you Dusty! For all the wonderful music!

Today marks the 6th anniversary of the death of our beloved Dusty Springfield, the greatest white soul singer the world has ever known!

But we know Dusty is making beautiful music up there! We miss you, Dusty!

Love,

Stefan (LuvDusty)

JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR gets 4 HELEN HAYES NOMS and other Artistic Notes!

LuvDusty is thrilled to see that the production of Jesus Christ Superstar that he choreographed for Open Circle Theatre in D.C., has just received 4 Helen Hayes Award Nominations, including one for Outstanding Resident Musical! All that hard work back in September and October of 2004 has paid off! The Award ceremony will be May 9th at the Warner Theatre, and yes LuvDusty will be there!

On more artistic notes, LuvDusty is currently choreographing what I believe will be a very fun production of The Pajama Game at Lazy Susan Dinner Theatre. The cast is very talented and the direction is once again by that Musical Theatre genius, Hans Bachmann! I love workin' with this guy, because we share similar views on the art form and how it should be presented. I always feel like our work is seemless--hopefully, the audience can't tell where his work ends and mine begins--we share a brain, so to speak. And it's a good thing!

I've also just been asked to choreograph Gypsy for Montgomery Playhouse, a 75 year old theatre company way out in Gaithersburg, Maryland. The commute will be a killer, but it'll be worth it to get to choreograph this classic of American musical theatre!

There is also a chance LuvDusty may get back on stage for the first time in almost 2 years! Ann Behrends, fantastic DC choreographer, has asked me to duet with her in a dance piece she is working on for the upcoming Joy of Motion Dance Festival on April 30 and May 1! It's an honor that Ann asked me and to get to dance with her will be a blast! More info as it comes in!

The South Leans to the Left!

Yesterday, amid a lot of fanfare, a tiny country nestled just South of Brazil and East of Argentina, called Uruguay, inaugurated the first far left wing president in the history of their government! Hooray for Uruguayans everywhere! First Brazil with Lula, and now Uruguay with Tabaré Vasquez! At least our South American cousins know what Democracy truly is. They elected leaders who truly represent their people, and not some stupid puppet of a Monkey who is bought and sold by the big oil companies and the closeted homo Nazis of the Religious Right.

Who said South Americans can't get anything right? It's amazing to watch how they move their continent to the far left, and somehow seem to be navigating the tempestuous waves of globalization without as much struggle as we seem to be here in the good ol' U.S. of A.

Maybe we should take a hint from our cousins to the South?