A New Thought for Christmas - Melissa Etheridge

[Gemini Cricket]

Melissa Etheridge appeared on Oprah on Friday with wife Tammy. She voiced her opposition to Prop 8 and Oprah agreed with her. It was great. Towards the end, she pimped her new Christmas album "A New Thought for Christmas". To show my support for what she did, I bought her album. It's good. It's a Christmas album for religious folk and "heathens" like me. Not only that, it's a call to arms for the gay and gay-friendly community to unite and strive for equality. It's wonderful.

The lyrics to "Ring the Bells":

Whose God is God? Whose light is light?
Whose law is wrong? Whose might is right?
Here we are on the edge, the edge of change.
I believe in peace, my only wish. I believe that we can co-exist;
Let’s go further now than we’ve ever gone before and

Ring the bells, ring the bells of change
Ring the bells, every boy and every girl
Ring the bells, ring the bells of peace all over the world

We’ve all been called to wake from sleep,
To feel our power to create the dreams,
To step out from the dark past our fathers’ fear.

Ring the bells…

Here we stand in unity making one choice to be free.
Every truth blends into one as we believe it shall be done.
Here we stand as soldiers now, turning our swords into plows;
There is not a nobler climb, achieving peace in our own time.

I know peace begins with me, with all I feel and with all I see,
And I know it’s no easy task removing our own fearful masks;
But I have seen us rise and fall, stand on the moon, tear down the wall
And I know we can do it all, can do it well.
Show me the bells!

Ring the bells… Ring the bells… Ring the bells…

Thumbs up, Ms. Etheridge!

So, I bought this on iTunes and saw that all the bad reviews for this album were by close-minded religious folk who probably didn't even listen to it. Sad. So, I added my own positive review to her page.

ETA:
The Etheridges on Oprah's show