I've been surfing the internet since before AlGore invented it.

Before there were blogs, I was blogging, and pissing people off.

Okay I've been pissing people off before there were PCs.

Back in 1997, while the queers in Hawaii were trying to get equal marriage rights for everyone, I started the TheocRAT Addressbook and Alerts on a few usenets (before Google was even a goggleglimmer anywhere in cyberspace).

I signed onto many theocRATS email lists, and posted those heterosupremacist emails on the TheocRAT Alerts. Searching beyond the webpages, I found addresses and telephone numbers of the antigay leaders, and weekly added those to the TheocRAT Addressbook.

A funny scary strange (even for the internet) thing happened. It turns out that Peter LaBarbera, a rampant homophobe, had signed onto the gay email list I posted to. He told the Christian Alert Network that I was posting their emails to the gay list. Since I had signed onto the Christian Alert Network's list, I received the email about what LaBarbera wrote about me. I knew I was onto something good then.

Things got even dopier after that.

Even more strange was some so-called gay guy, who was not an activist, actually thought that my posting theocRATs emails to the gay list was wrong and he apologized to the theocRAT.

Just one more internutter who used up all his brain cells when he booted his computer.

Fortunately, since I was doing this as a service to the activists who were trying to stop these self-appointed Christians from coercing lawmakers into upholding the New American Bible instead of the United States Constitution.

Unfortunately, starting in Hawaii, the theocRATs figured out a way to make sure that gay and lesbian Americans were denied the right to due process, by amending state constitutions. Hawaii's constitutional amendment states “The Legistlature shall have the power to reserve marriage to opposite-sex couples.”

Once the theocRATs found out that they could get away with this, and raise lots of money at the same time, the Republican party power brokers decided to use gay marriage as an issue in the last presidential election. To get conservatives to the polls in 11 states, antigay marriage constitutional amendments just happened to be on those state ballots, especially in the states with critical electoral college votes -- like Ohio.

The tyranny of the majority prevailed in all 11 states.

Gay men and lesbians were denied the right to due process, because each state constitution amendment stopped the courts from having the power to protect the minority from the majority tyranny. During the 2006 congressional races, the Republicans were at it again, putting those damn amendments on more state ballots.

Here's another strange thing that happened. Voters elected more Democrats than Republicans - okay that was not strange - but only Arizona voters rejected the antigay marriage amendments.

While it looks on the surface that all these amendments have done is to create special rights for heterosexual couples to marry, what these amendments really do is violate the United States Constitutional right to due process.

That is the real reason these amendments were put on the ballots. TheocRATs claimed that any courts upholding unconditional constitutional equality for all Americans were “activist” judges. Those who voted for those amendments decided that the United States Constitution and their state constitutions applied only to those people they agreed with, approved of or accepted. That was the rallying cry from the theocRATs – that to allow same-sex marriage would be accepting homosexuals.

What a slippery slope that is, for who is next on their disapproval list.

Today 26 states have amended their constitutions to deny gay and lesbian Americans the first amendment right to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. These state amendments directly conflict with the 14 th amendment: “No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”

Now that those states amended their constitutions, they have opened the door for state courts to rule that in no civil or criminal case are gay men and lesbians allowed the right to due process.

This has not happened yet, but it easily could.

To make sure of that in Massachusetts, the only state so far that passed a law allowing same-sex couples to marry, the theocRATs are on the move again. Just as in the last presidential election, they have coerced the state legislators into placing an antigay Massachusetts petition antigay marriage amendment on the ballot in 2008. Ministers in cahoots with elected and appointed state officials (including former governor, now presidential candidate, Romney) went to the very activist judges they criticized for upholding the constitutional rights unconditionally to force the state legislator to include an amendment to their constitution denying equal rights.

In 2008, we will see if the tyranny of the majority prevails.

To be sure they are on the right side of the marriage issue, presidential candidates senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obamas have already said they are not for same-sex marriage. Senator Clinton's husband Bill signed into law DOMA – the discriminatory offensive marriage attack – since he knows so much about the sanctity of traditional marriage.

PlanetSpin, my blog, focuses on what the theocRATs are up to for the next presidential election cycle. They still have states left to conquer, and more ways to line their pockets with money from the voters they scare into believing that the United States Constitution applies only to the people the majority approve of, agree with or accept.