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.
For
our music tonight:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSUFzC6_fp8
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!
Please
buy slave's cookbook:
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.
