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Look who's here -- I didn't see you before You know, it's really interesting -- I was thinking about everybody who was gonna come tonight and I was thinking "Gosh, most of these people are gonna be, like, my friends -- my close personal friends and I was really happy 'cause it felt like I had a lot of them So, um, and I hope I have a lot more I mean, now the rest of you who aren't my close personal friends but perhaps would like to be . . . . I'm an accessible kinda gal So anyway, how many of you guys remember No on 8? (applause, then boos, hissing) One of the, uh, wonderful things brought to you by . . . the OCA Uhm, well, I had kind of a bad reaction to No on 8 . . . . . . it kind of gave me a rash . . . like a spiritual rash? You know? Did any of you experience that? I got mighty mad, frankly, but you know, they're never gonna know the kind of creative fervor that they gave to me because some great songs came out of No on 8 as far as I was concerned. And, um, a lot of it had to do with, like -- you know, don't you love what they call us? I love this -- Now, like, my mom is sitting there, and my mom says to me -- now, you have to understand my mother doesn't talk much about anything that isn't, like, couldn't be printed in a public newspaper? You know, like anything like feelings? You know -- the "F" word? We don't talk about that. So, anyway, my mother comes and kind of takes me aside one time when I was home and she goes -- "How do" -- my -- we have two boys at home -- my partner's kids and .... my kids and .... well, yeah, my kids -- OK, so, anway Oh, we just got that settled, just like that! If it's OK with you Um, and, uh -- my mother says: "So how do the boys feel about your situation?" You know, other people have relationships. Not me! I have a "situation". And a friend of mine said: "Well, at least you don't have a condition." You know, they call us these great words -- this is my favorite: "Unnatural" I love that they call us unnatural-- and I love WHO calls us unnatural-- people like Tammy Faye Bakker. You know -- is she under there? You kind of feel like you could whittle her down and there'd be nothing in there! So, anyway -- (Audience: "It's where Jimmy Hoffa's buried . . .") Oh! This is one of my hecklers, Myra -- I'd like you all to give her a round . . . (applause) Myra's been through the Carol Steinel School of Heckling. See, I've been on a campaign lately because there are a lot of great musicians and comics in our country but very few good hecklers -- you know? So I've been trying to develop a cadre of -- love that word -- cadre of hecklers and Myra's a graduate of the class of '88 and proud of it She was on the Varsity Heckling Team! Now, so, I wrote some songs, and I call them "The Hate Trilogy" and they're kind of about my experience with Right Wing Fundamentalist types Now the first one, there is already a song called this but I decided it was kind of a big topic, so probably it could accomodate two songs, you know, called the same thing but you'll recognize it -- It's called: God is Love When I was young, when I was small -- they said: God is love, and that is all. God is love -- and there are no exceptions. But later on, of course, they started makin' a few corrections. They said God is love, yes, God is love -- except there are a few things that God hates. Such as *** -- and peace-lovin' hippies. but of course they changed that later to ***, and -- Liberal Straights. Well I got older -- yes, I grew up -- and they said: God loves you, if you love Him. I thought that was fair. Yes, I could understand it but later on, of course, they began to expand it. They said God is love, yes God is love except there are a few things that God hates: Such as ***, and mutineers, and commies and pinkos and papists, and peace-lovin' hippies, 'cept later on of course they changed that to *** and mutineers and commies and pinkos and papists and --- Liberal Straights I got a little older, as we sometimes do, and they said: "God will destroy you if you don't do what He says." I said: "Well, what does He say?" And they said: "Don't worry, we'll tell you that later." And I said, "Wait a minute! What about God is Love?" and then they gave me that funny look. They said: God IS love. God IS love -- except there are a few things that God HATES! Such as *** and mutineers and commies and pinkos and papists and people that aren't like US and people who ask too many questions! and peace-lovin' hippies, but you know, later on they changed the last part -- to . . . . hmm? Liberal Straights. I went to therapy for five or six years I joined the ACLU and NARAL and even NOW I healed the damage that they did all my spiritual contusions yes, I made my break away I started drawin' my own conclusions. Would you like me to share them with you? (Audience: Yes!) I think God is love and God is love and then God is love and then God is love some more And God loves *** and mutineers and God loves commies and pinkos and papists and God loves people that aren't like them (God even loves people that are like them, although I don't understand it) and God loves peace loving hippies and God loves people that ask too many questions and I happen to have it on the very best authority that He -- or She -- just adores liberal straights.