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Will they know

Posted on January 30, 2018 by Callen Harty

When they dig up these bones what will they find on the skeleton of my life? Will they be able to read the hieroglyphics on my skull and the petroglyphs of my soul etched in the decaying calcium before them? … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged all, anger, bodies, bones, corpse, curiosity, dust, earth, empathy, enrgy, frailty, hate, hieroglyphics, home, human beings, immortality, life, love, man, mortality, passion, petroglyphs, skeleton, soul, strength, writing | Leave a comment

On the Pulse Nightclub Massacre

Posted on June 14, 2016 by Callen Harty

Within a couple minutes of waking up on Sunday morning several posts on Facebook had alerted me to yet another mass shooting in the United States. A moment later I saw that it had taken place at a gay nightclub … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Allen Schindler, Atlanta, bigotry, Billy Jack Gaither, bisexual, Brandon Teena, Capitol Square, Christian, closet, Earl Greeley, fear, gay, gay club, gender, Harvey Milk, hate, homophobic, Islamist extremist, justice, Latino night, lesbian, LGBT, life partner, love, Madison, mass shooting, Matthew Shepard, Muslim, Native American, New Orleans, Orlando, other, Otherside Lounge, place of origin, pulse, Pulse Nightclub, queer, race, religion, right-wing, sexuality, status, Superior, transgender, University of Wisconsin, Upstairs Loung, Wisconsin | Leave a comment

Blake, Ash, and Skylar

Posted on March 28, 2016 by Callen Harty

Note: Someone reposted an article from a year ago and I didn’t notice that it said 2015 instead of 2016, which caused me to write this blog post. I have revised the post a bit due to that. Today I … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged activist, anti-discrimination bill, Ash Haffner, bathroom bill, bigots, bisexual, Blake Brockington, Charlotte NC, Constitution of the United States, equal, gay, God, hate, hatred, law, legislators, lesbian, LGBT, Madison, minority, queer youth, queer-identified, rights, self-expression, Skylar Lee, suicide, transgender, transgender youth, Wisconsin | Leave a comment

Forgive the Shooter

Posted on May 5, 2015 by Callen Harty

On Sunday evening in the small Wisconsin town of Menasha a man apparently distraught over a recent breakup and argument with his former fiancée took two guns with him on his bike and went for a ride. On the middle … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged "eye for an eye", "hill of death", Adam Bentdahl, bridges, Christian, compassion, empathy, Erin Stoffel, faith, forgive, forgiveness, forgiving, guns, hate, hero, heroism, Jim Campbell, Jonathan Stoffel, life story, Little Lake Butte Des Mortes, love, Menasha, Old Testament, Olivia Stoffel, religion, retribution, selflessness, Sergio Daniel Valencia del Toro, shooter, Trestle Trail Bridge, violence, Wisconsin | 2 Comments

Letter to the LaFayette County Clerk

Posted on June 13, 2014 by Callen Harty

On Friday, June 7, Judge Barbara Crabb ruled Wisconsin’s Constitutional same-sex marriage ban unconstitutional. She didn’t do a very good job of guidance for what that meant, but by Thursday morning, June 12, all but nine of Wisconsin’s 72 counties … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Attorney General, Clerk Bawden, conservative, Constitution, Democrats, discrimination, divorce, family, gay, government, Governor Walker, hate, human rights, husbands, J. B. Van Hollen, Judge Barbara Crabb, La Fayette County, lesbian, love, marriage, marriage licenses, MAssachusetts, orientation, patriarchy, places of worship, policy, politics, procreation, Republicans, rights, same-sex couples, same-sex marriage ban, Shullsburg, straight, traditional marriage, Wisconsin, wives | Leave a comment

Countering Hate

Posted on July 5, 2012 by Callen Harty

On Friday members of Fred Phelps’ Westboro Baptist Church are scheduled to be in my city for a protest at the courthouse. A counter rally is scheduled to greet them. Pretty much everywhere they go around the country they are … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged compassion, counter protest, courthouse, Fred Phelps, hate, love, Madison, protest, rally, Westboro Baptist Church | Leave a comment

A Time for Healing

Posted on June 24, 2012 by Callen Harty

The Jerry Sandusky trial is over. The guilty verdicts have been delivered. If the news trucks have not all packed up and gone already they will soon. It is time for them to move on to the next story. It … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged child sex abuse, forgiveness, hate, healing, Jerry Sandusky, Penn State, retribution, self-love | 1 Comment

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Will they know

On the Pulse Nightclub Massacre

Blake, Ash, and Skylar

Forgive the Shooter

Letter to the LaFayette County Clerk

Countering Hate

A Time for Healing

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