Paris Hilton will soon be donning her orange overalls with matching orange fake tan, and heading off to jail. Of course, she thinks that the whole thing is a bad idea, and my faith in the legal system has been totally destroyed. I could have sworn that it was a constitutional right for stars to break the law time and time again with no more than a slap on the wrist. Hollywood will burn over this.

For those that don't know, she was sentenced to 45 days imprisonment for repeatedly violating her driving probation. Basically, she lost her licence, and then decided to drive anyway - while drunk. Twice. Hey, I am all for giving second chances and hoping that they get on the straight and narrow, but I think Paris has really overstayed her welcome. She obviously has no respect for the law, and expects that her money and fame will just come to her aid. Oh, and that whole "I was dealt with harshly because I am famous!" thing? Please. Imagine you were a black middle aged man, caught repeatedly driving drunk without a licence... 45 days would be a laugh for them.

Why am I writing about this? I will admit, as someone who thinks she is a little too... precious... I do find it funny that she is going to prison, so 50% of this post is me with a smug look on my face. The other 50% is to head slap some other people out there. Namely those from the christian movement"The Resistance".

Finding Paris' jail time amusing is one thing, but using her jail time to hold a party 'celebrating' her incarceration for religious grandstanding is just plain cruel. Same goes for her cds. Burning them because she sounds like a tortured monkey is one thing, but to burn them out of a political-christian motivation is just stupid plain old grandstanding. "Oh, look at me... I'm so moral because I'm burning her Cds".

What is worse, this isn't an isolated incident. I have received plenty of emails from the christian right groups in the USA (How they got my email I do not know) demanding that all christian Americans protest against law changes in the USA.

What other evil laws are christians protesting about I hear you ask? Well, an equal rights law for homosexuals for one. Another email demanded action over a so called 'amnesty' for immigrant workers, who flee to the USA for a better life. Apparently many christians in the USA believe that they are superior because they were born inside the USA, and the land is for themselves alone... "No room in the Inn, stay out in the manger".

And yet another email from a christian action group demanded that US citizens do their duty and protest the withdrawal of US troop, and that MORE troops should be sent to Iraq, and then on to Iran. What? Withdraw your troops from another country a world away? You are talking madness! Send aid instead of bombs? Lunacy! If the USA spent as much money on aid in the Middle East, as it has spent on its war in Iraq, I think the USA would just about be the most loved country in the world. "You need a new school? - No problems New hospital equipment? - Sure thing!"

Lets be realistic here... the war could cost up to 2 trillion dollars. I for one, happen to think that the money possibly could have been better spent elsewhere. I just see too much negative response action from so called 'christians'.

Before you all get your panties in a knot, know that I am not talking about every christian out there, I know that there are plenty of good ones out there. But really, the fundamentalists need to take a few breaths, and preferably stop talking.

Oh, and stop protesting and demanding that YOUR rights are left untouched while discriminating against others. Being a christian and not liking something doesn't mean you automatically have the right to trample over other peoples rights. Last time I checked, Christianity was about putting others first. And when I say 'putting others first' I don't mean 'putting them at number one on your hit list', like some christians decided to do, sending death threats to the artist of the sculpted chocolate Jesus.

Basically, I'm all for people voicing an opinion. But as soon as you force your opinion onto someone else, it becomes manipulation and oppression. If you want to sculpt Jesus with a penis in chocolate - by all means go ahead. I'm sure he had a penis in real life anyway, and that the chocolate tastes delicious. If you want to write a play about Jesus and his disciples being gay - go ahead. I probably won't watch it, but last time I checked I don't watch many plays on the best of weekends. Oh, and just because someone wrote a note back in highschool saying I was gay doesn't automatically make me change teams... you know what I mean?

So while the original title for this entry was going to be "Hi Ho, Hi Ho, it's Jail for the Hoe", I decided that I kinda needed to take a step back, and realise that sometimes it is more important to love than laugh. Sometimes.