Tonight's
recipe was named to honor an important federal Judge whose 1964
opinion was an important step in the fight for LGBT rights. Read
about it for interesting dinner conversations.
Here
is a simple yet very juicy recipe for roasting chicken breasts. A
touch of sweet, a touch of heat. It should be a big hit from your
kitchen.
Ingredients
4
TBS brown sugar, packed
1
tsp Old Bay seasoning
1
tsp salt
¼
tsp black pepper, to taste
½
tsp garlic powder
½
tsp onion powder
4
large chicken breasts (7oz each)
4
TBS butter
½
tsp Better Than Bullion roasted garlic
Directions:
Preheat
oven to 425°F
Most
recipes will have you pound out the white meat, here we prefer to
slice the beasts side-wise like opening a hot dog bun. Leaving each
piece about ¾ inch thick and still very juicy.
Make
sure your fillets are all the same thickness to ensure even cooking.
Combine
sugar, paprika, Old Bay, powders, salt and pepper in a large bowl.
Press each piece into the mixture on both sides to coat well. Let sit
while oven pre-heats.
Melt
the butter in microwave and add the better than bullion and mix well.
This
is a good time to start the green vegetables, either green beans or
broccoli. In a large bowl microwave the frozen vegetables for only
1:40 on HIGH. Sprinkle with salt, garlic powder, and a pinch of
sugar. Add some olive oil and mix well. Pour out on a foil lined
baking sheet.
Line
a baking pan with aluminum foil. Add the chicken and pat on any
remaining powder mix Drizzle the chicken with the melted garlic
butter.
Bake
chicken along side of the vegetables in preheated oven for 25
minutes,
or until internal temperature is 165°F
using
a meat thermometer.
Remove
the green vegetable. Turn oven to broil and let cook for 2
– 3 minutes
until golden and crisp.
Remove
pan from oven, transfer chicken to serving plates and let rest for 5
minutes
before serving.
To
serve, drizzle pan juices over the chicken and garnish with freshly
chopped parsley.
Fix
some brown rice as a side with the green vegetable.
For
our music tonight from 1964:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7f9hsFrKUY
Little Old Lady From Pasadena
So
happy to be serving my Master Indy.
socialslave
To
satisfy and restore.
To
nourish, support and maintain.
To
gratify, spoil, comfort and please,
to
nurture, assist, and sustain
…..I
cook!
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Born
in Lenoir, North Carolina, J.
Braxton Craven received
a Bachelor of Laws from Harvard Law School in 1942. He was in a
private practice of law until 1956. Governor Luther Hodges appointed
him a special judge of the North Carolina Superior Court, where he
served from 1956 to 1961.
Craven was nominated by
President John F. Kennedy
on July 24, 1961, to the United States District Court for the Western
District of North Carolina. He served as Chief Judge from 1962 to
1966.
Craven was latter
nominated by President Lyndon B. Johnson to the United States Court
of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit where he served until his death in
1977.
It was during his tenure
as Chief Judge of the Western District of North Carolina that he
struck a blow for LGBT rights that set in motion a slow change in
attitudes.
Have you never heard of
it? Well here is how it played out five years before the Stonewall
Uprising.
January
8, 1962, Max
Perkins and Robert
McCorkle were
arrested in Charlotte, North Carolina, on the charge that they “did
unlawfully, willfully, maliciously and feloniously commit the
abominable and detestable crime against nature with each other.”
This is the North Carolina statute that they were arrested under in
1962, a 429-year-old law carried over from England, which was only
slightly changed in 1869 to remove the death penalty.
Robert
McCorkle pleaded no contest and received the minimum sentence under
the archaic law of 5
to 7 years in prison.
Perkins, however pleaded innocent. The jury found Perkins guilty, and
the same judge who sentenced McCorkle earlier to 5 to 7 years
sentenced Perkins to 20
to 30 years in
prison.
Perkins
appealed and the case went to Federal Court, and on October 5, 1964,
Federal Judge J.
Braxton Craven ruled
that Perkins was wrongly convicted.
This
was nearly unprecedented at the time!
Maxine
Doyle Perkins, who
was referred to in the court and media as a “homosexual,” a
“transvestite,” a “female impersonator,” and a man (“Max”)
who dressed like a woman, was arrested and convicted for engaging in
oral sex with Robert
McCorkle in
Charlotte.
Judge
Craven found that if the statute outlawing the “detestable crime”
was a new one, it would be unconstitutionally vague. Craven also
found that the specific crime being outlawed was “buggery”;
Perkins’s “detestable crime” was fellatio. He also found that
Perkins’s excessive punishment, when compared to McCorkle’s, was
obviously imposed because “his 'not guilty' plea inconvenienced
the court and that he was punished for it.”
Judge
Craven ordered Perkins released before concluding in his official
opinion:
“Is
it not time to redraft a criminal statute first enacted in 1533? And
if so, cannot the criminal law draftsmen be helped by those best
informed on the subject — medical doctors — in attempting to
classify offenders? Is there any public purpose served by a possible
sixty year maximum or even five year minimum imprisonment of the
occasional or one-time homosexual without treatment, and if so, what
is it? Are homosexuals twice as dangerous to society as
second-degree murderers — as indicated by the maximum punishment
for each offense? Is there a good reason why a person convicted of a
single homosexual act with another adult may be imprisoned six times
as long as an abortionist, thirty times as long as one who takes
indecent liberties with children, thirty times as long as the drunk
driver — even though serious personal injury and property damage
results — twice as long as an armed bank robber, three times as
long as a train robber, ten times as along as one who feloniously
breaks and enters a store, and 730 times as long as the public
drunk?
These
questions, and others like them, need to be answered.”
In
the end Robert Perkins received a new trial and was found not guilty.
The
ruling in favor of Perkins, however, was not exactly a shining
example of gender or sexual enlightenment. After noting that “putting
Perkins into the North Carolina prison system is a little like
throwing Brer Rabbit into the briarpatch” since the “prison
environment…provides an outlet for the gratification of
sexually-deviate desires,”
Over
the next few decades more North Carolinians were arrested, charged,
convicted, and imprisoned for consensual crimes against nature
(same-sex and cross-sex). Although there were a significant number of
court challenges, the state’s law remained valid until 2003, when
the Supreme Court overturned sodomy laws in Lawrence
v. Texas.
This
one event was part of what was becoming a slow change in public
opinion and legal rights. In our history of fighting for LGBT rights,
most of our victories were in the courtroom not the ballot box.
We
should remember that at this time you could still be arrested for
looking the wrong way in the rest room. You could be beaten to death
and the murders set free with cheering, after entering a “homosexual
panic” defense. It has been a long dark journey. Let us not forget
those who played a part along the way.
