Thursday, November 30, 2017

Lawrence V Texas Celebration Pork Chops


Here is a simple recipe of pork cooked with apples & onions to mark the eat of the growing season. Let it light up your holiday table with its “yummy-ness” Start things off with a simple vegetable salad!


Pork chops can be overlooked during the holidays. This makes a welcome break from turkey! Granny Smith apples, some onion and brown sugar make this a treat. Simply add a green vegetable and they will be saying “What a Meal”. Be sure to read a short article on LGBT history following the recipe.



A Simple Vegetable Salad
This makes a nice side dish. Not too sweet and a dressing that is mostly non-fat!

Ingredients:

10 oz package frozen broccoli and cauliflower
5 oz container non fat yogurt, (I used lemon flavored)
3 Tbs mayonnaise
½ cup sugar
½ tsp salt
3 strips bacon
1 cup shredded Cheddar cheese
½ cup dried cranberries

Directions:
Zap the frozen vegetable mix in microwave for ONLY 2 minutes and let cool


Cut the bacon into thirds and fry it up crisp. Drain on paper towels



In a medium bowl Mix the yogurt with the mayonnaise, stir in the sugar. Sprinkle with salt.

Place the vegetables in a large bowl. Add the cheese and cranberries, then stir well.
Pour the dressing over and again mix well. Garnish with crumbled bacon.

Cover and place in refrigerator to blend flavors for at least an hour.

WOW!

Celebration Pork Chops




Ingredients:
  • ¼ cup all-purpose flour
  • 4 pork chops, about 1-inch thick
  • ¼ cup (stick) butter
  • 1 small onion, chopped
  • ¼ tsp. salt +
  • 2 large granny smith apples, peeled, cored, and chopped
  • 1 Tbs. cornstarch
  • 1 Tsp. ground cinnamon
  • 1 cup apple juice
  • 1 Tbs brown sugar
Directions:
Do your cutting: slice the onion.


Peel, core and slice the apples. 
 

In a shallow dish, completely coat pork chops with flour. 



In a large skillet, melt butter over medium-high heat; add pork chops and cook, uncovered, about 5 minutes on each side, until browned.



Add onion, salt, and apples; cover and cook an additional 10 minutes, turning chops once.



In a small pan, combine remaining ingredients, heat just until it is mixed
Add to skillet and cover.



Reduce heat to medium and continue cooking 3 to 4 minutes, or until sauce begins to thicken. Serve chops topped with sauce.
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Lawrence v. Texas

Master suggested that when slave writes about LGBT history the stress should be on the victories and things we got right. Especially as the end of the year approaches, let's look back on the good stuff!

In 1960 every state in America had anti-sodomy laws on their books. Legal punishments for sodomy often included heavy fines, life prison sentences, or both, with some states, beginning with Illinois in 1827, denying other rights, such as suffrage, to anyone convicted of the crime of sodomy. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, several states imposed various eugenics laws against anyone deemed to be a "sexual pervert". In some cases the courts ordered “treatments”. As late as 1970, Connecticut denied a driver's license to a man for being an "admitted homosexual". Most judges were largely unsympathetic to the due process claims raised.

But one of the biggest steps toward gay equality, the end of America’s sodomy laws, was the legal case: Lawrence v. Texas. It is considered the most significant gay rights breakthrough of our time. The proceedings took five years to go through the court system.




It began in 1998, not even 20 years ago. A 911 operator received a false report about “a black male going crazy with a gun” at John Lawrence’s home in a Houston suburb. Harris County sheriff’s deputies responded with guns drawn. They entered Lawrence’s unlocked apartment. There, they purportedly found Lawrence and Tyron Garner engaging in consensual sex.

Nobody knows what they actually saw.
One deputy wrote in his report that he saw Garner, on the bed,on all fours”, on the receiving end of anal sex with Lawrence, and that both were completely naked.

Another said that he saw them on the floor, and that Garner wasn’t naked. He wasn’t sure whether he saw them having anal sex or oral sex, (How do you confuse the two?) “The black guy was giving him head or they was doing each other from behind. I don’t remember.”



Lawrence and Garner were arrested, held in jail overnight, and charged with violating the Texas Homosexual Conduct law. This prohibited engaging “in deviant sexual intercourse with another individual of the same sex.”

They both denied having sex that night. They sought help from Lambda Legal Defense. The lawyers advised the defendants to plead no contest, neither admitting guilt nor protesting innocence.

And so on November 20, 1998, Lawrence and Garner were convicted of the Class C misdemeanor were fined $200 each. They had to register as sex offenders.

And with that, the landmark case of Lawrence v. Texas began to make its way through the court system. As expected, the plaintiffs lost at each stage, with the courts relying on the 1986 Supreme court ruling - Bowers v. Hardwick. That ruling had found sodomy laws were acceptable and to be upheld.
Arguments were finally heard in 2003. LGBT history hung in the balance. Supreme Court Justices are wary of overturning any ruling, especially one that recent. However in June, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the Texas anti-sodomy law in a 6-3 ruling, along with similar laws in twelve other states.

Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote the majority opinion. He stated:
    Liberty protects the person from unwarranted government intrusions into a dwelling or other private places. In our tradition the State is not omnipresent in the home. And there are other spheres of our lives and existence, outside the home, where the State should not be a dominant presence. Freedom extends beyond spatial bounds. Liberty presumes an autonomy of self that includes freedom of thought, belief, expression, and certain intimate conduct. The instant case involves liberty of the person both in its spatial and more transcendent dimensions.

Remember those words my brothers and sisters. This is our right to freedom!

The Court held that homosexuals had a protected liberty interest to engage in private, sexual activity and that moral disapproval did not provide a legitimate justification for Texas’s law criminalizing sodomy.

Kennedy wrote:
The petitioners [Lawrence and Garner] are entitled to respect for their private lives. The State cannot demean their existence or control their destiny by making their private sexual conduct a crime.”

The Court also held that the intimate, adult consensual conduct at issue here was part of the liberty protected by the substantive component of the Fourteenth Amendment’s due process protections. Kennedy said that the Constitution protects “personal decisions relating to marriage, procreation, contraception, family relationships, [and] child rearing” and that homosexuals “may seek autonomy for these purposes.” Holding that “the Texas statute furthers no legitimate state interest which can justify its intrusion into the personal and private life of the individual”, the court struck down the anti-sodomy law as unconstitutional.

The ruling attracted much public attention, and set the stage for further re-considerations of standing law, including the landmark case of Obergefell v. Hodges which recognized same-sex marriage as a fundamental right.


 So today as we prepare to celebrate the holidays with the families of our choice, with who we love, lets remember what has been accomplished.

And in true holiday story fashion, let us gather in love and focus on what we can achieve! Help our community in every way we can. As Charles Dickens wrote: “nothing happens without assistance”.

A special thanks to Will Kohler, who writes: Back2Stonewall.com, and to Lambda Legal Defense, for gathering all this technical information for our enlightenment.


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