Yesterday, the woman I lost my virginity with in an act of making love in 1967, called me from New York. We lived in a large Victorian home in Oakland with the rock group the LOADING ZONE. Chris’s boyfriend at the time played in the group the MARBLES who performed at the first ACID TEST at Long Shoreman’s Hall. Chris and I talk several times a month.
Nancy Hamren was the first girl I ever kissed in 1958. We were both twelve at the time. In 1966 we. lived in a famous hippie commune in SF. Nancy dated Stanly Augustus Owsley. Nancy is like family to the Kesey family. Her grandmother had an old recipe for yogurt. Nancy was there when I graduated from the New Hope program at Serenity Lane, and invited me to ride on THE BUS with Ken in the Eugene Celebration Parade in 1987.
My ex-wife was good friends with Mimi and Richard Farina, and lived with Thomas Pynchon in Mexico. They were lovers. Thomas had Maryanne stand nude in front of a mirror, with a rose. I did a life-size drawing of that event. Maryanne did a life-size portrait of Mimi Baez, who is now dead. These two lovers made amazing music together. The Christian Crusaders went after them.
Marilyn was my first girlfriend, the first woman I had a mutual orgasm with. But, we did not have intercourse. We practiced ‘Dry Screwing’ because she was terrified of getting pregnant. I was allowed to stay the night in her bedroom – if I went to Baptist church in the morning. I slept on the floor.
When the Billy Graham Crusade came to the Los Angeles Coliseum in 1963, I had to attend, or I would not be able to see Marilyn again. There were 40,000 people there, they all waiting for me to go down and be saved as the choir sang ‘Jesus I Come’. When I didn’t come after four sessions of brain washing, Marilyn’s mother forbid her sixteen year old daughter to see me again. If we did come face to face, I would be arrested. I would spend time in jail – a virgin!
Marilyn and I are good friends this very day. She married Kenny Reed and sings in his Jazz band here in town STONE COLD JAZZ.
Then there is Melinda Frank, whose father was a member of the Purple Gang and came close to killing me the day his daughter and I cut school to……..make love, not war!
As I have told my reader, I died a virgin after falling on these dramatic rocks. In the last two weeks it has become evident the Christian Republican Right has been waging a WAR ON LOVE. This war has been funded by George Bush in his abstinence-only program that was instigated by religious leaders who lurk in the background of our Democratic Process to choose candidates for public office. Bush instigated the Faith-based initiative which allows church groups to get Federal monies to feed the poor and house the homeless. It is a religious alternative to secular welfare programs that do not contain a message from Jesus when the poor go the EAT FOOD. Mix this in with the church plan to include a message from Jesus when you want to HAVE SEX. The desire to EAT and have SEX are powerful urges. Why is the Federal Government allowing the Church to block the door to these DESIRES?
The answer is, this is a COVERT PLOT to destroy the LOVE GENERATION – my generation – because we were too much like Jesus. We practiced what they preached – HOWEVER – we performed acts of sexual intercourse, something THEIR JESUS never did, until Dan Brown came along.
The Loading Zone was close with the Tower of Power. Jim Morrison was close with the Beat Poet, Michael McLure. The Oakland scene was a threat. There are connections to the Black Panthers I can not reveal. And now we got a whole lot of ape-shittery going on over condoms!
I was chosen by this generation, anointed by the BROTHERHOOD OF ETERNAL LOVE to be their LOVE JESUS, because it looked tome like I was EVERYONE’S JESUS.
Why would Jesus, on his return, want to hang around in back rooms with billionaries and generals bent on going on another holy crusade? But until that blessed day arrive again……
“Don’t give them any condoms – or food – till the see things our way!”
Make love, not war! I formed my Nazarite Chruch in 1997. I am going to apply for faith-based funds for a simmple alcohol abstinence program.
Jon the Naaarite
The president has been a strong proponent of school-based sexual education that focuses on abstinence, but does not include instruction on safe sex.
“We don’t need a study, if I remember my biology correctly, to show us that those people who are sexually abstinent have a zero chance of becoming pregnant or getting someone pregnant or contracting a sexually transmitted disease,” said Wade Horn, the assistant secretary of Health and Human Services in charge of federal abstinence funding.
The push for abstinence is one of several Bush policies popular with religious conservatives. Also topping the agenda: the faith-based initiative, which aims to open more government programs to religious groups. That push will continue into a second term, said Jim Towey, who directs the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives.
Posted 11/25/2004 5:31 PM
Bush urges more abstinence funds; effectiveness uncertain
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Bush’s re-election insures that more federal money will flow to abstinence education that precludes discussion of birth control, even as the administration awaits evidence that the approach gets kids to refrain from sex.
Congress last weekend included more than $131 million for abstinence programs in a $388 billion spending bill, an increase of $30 million but about $100 million less than Bush requested. Meanwhile, a national evaluation of abstinence programs has been delayed, with a final report not expected until 2006.
Ten state evaluations, compiled by a group that opposes abstinence-only education, showed little change in teens’ behavior since the start of abstinence programs in 1997.
The president has been a strong proponent of school-based sexual education that focuses on abstinence, but does not include instruction on safe sex.
“We don’t need a study, if I remember my biology correctly, to show us that those people who are sexually abstinent have a zero chance of becoming pregnant or getting someone pregnant or contracting a sexually transmitted disease,” said Wade Horn, the assistant secretary of Health and Human Services in charge of federal abstinence funding.
Those who say schools also should be teaching youths how to use contraceptives say Horn’s argument ignores reality. Surveys indicate that roughly 50% of teens say they have sex before they leave high school. While the nation’s teenage pregnancy rate is declining, young people 15 to 24 account for about half the new cases of sexually transmitted diseases in the United States each year.
Teaching only about abstinence means students will be less able to prevent pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases, say supporters of comprehensive sexual education.
“The only 100% way to avoid a car collision is not to drive, but the federal government sure does a lot of advocacy for safety belts,” said James Wagoner, president of Advocates for Youth, a group that promotes education about birth control and condom use.
The push for abstinence is one of several Bush policies popular with religious conservatives. Also topping the agenda: the faith-based initiative, which aims to open more government programs to religious groups. That push will continue into a second term, said Jim Towey, who directs the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives.
“This is a culture change in the way the government provides social services,” he said in an interview. “It’s a change to recognize if we really want to help our poor, we want to give them some choice of programs and providers.”
The argument about sexual education has raged for years, between those who say teaching about sex promotes promiscuity and those who say teens will make better choices if they are fully informed.
The “abstinence-only” initiative was part of the 1996 welfare law. Because programs are so young, there has been little conclusive research about their effectiveness. Independent researchers said in 2002 there is no reliable evidence whether these programs are effective in reducing teen sex, pregnancy or the transmission of disease.
The same team has been updating its findings for the Department of Health and Humans Services. A second report was supposed to be released earlier this year, but has been pushed back, said HHS spokesman Bill Pierce. The final installation is expected in 2006.
Advocates for Youth recently compiled state evaluations that found little change in teens’ behavior since the start of the abstinence programs. The states evaluated are: Arizona, Florida, Iowa, Maryland, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Oregon, Pennsylvania and Washington.
Leslee Unruh, president of National Abstinence Clearinghouse in Sioux Falls, S.D., said those state programs are not true abstinence programs because they talk about delaying sexual activity, but not specifically waiting until marriage.
Wagoner said backers of abstinence-only education are now distancing themselves from programs that don’t work. He noted that the state programs all qualified for and received money from the federal pot of abstinence education money.
Horn and Unruh acknowledged a paucity of data. “So many of our programs are in their infancy. The jury is still out,” Unruh said.
Horn said, “The research is not as adequate as it needs to be.”
Still, he is not willing to wait for more evaluations, calling abstinence education “something that parents and children want.”
Rosamond Press 
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