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
1½ tsp paprika
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:
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
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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.
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