OVAL AMBITION HIS GAY AGENDA

By M. H. Sebastian

Oval Ambition is a story about a maternally orphaned gay man who grows up interested in politics & during his last college years starts having aspirations of working his way up into the U. S. Senate after becoming a mayor & subsequent state House Representative. But that goal is soon eclipsed by someone else proposing that he be the first gay man to reach the oval office. With a lesbian as his best friend turned beard, they marry late in college to put up the happy couple & soon to be family front to help with their endeavors. With a baby and making it into the U.S. Senate, the question quickly becomes that of how can they move forward in their lives together with even higher political ambitions & also have what both of them want more than anything, to have intimacy within a loving relationship but not with each other. Can they do it? Read on & experience their world of love & dedication for each other which is only eclipsed only by their passion for tender affections found in the arms of two other people.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Apr 4, 2017
• ISBN: 9781365870354

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OVAL AMBITION HIS GAY AGENDA

Oval Ambition - His Gay Agenda

A Novel by M. H. Sebastian

Printed in the United States of America

All rights reserved. This book or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever without the express written permission of the publisher except for the use of brief quotations in a book review or scholarly journal.

Names, characters, places, and incidents are either the product of author imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events or locales is entirely coincidental.

© 2017 Sebastian Global Publishing LLC

ISBN 978-1-365-87035-4

Preface

So here it is.  I don’t have to watch my tongue here as the very people that I might offend are the same ones that would never read this story anyway.  How many of my readers are familiar with the right-wing conservative rhetoric that constantly spews hatred towards homosexuals?  How many of you have heard all about our ‘gay agenda’?  Yeah, I thought so; all of you.  By the way, I’ve never heard exactly what our gay agenda is supposed to be, other than stalking young kids at playgrounds so that we can recruit them into being gay.  So I decided to make up a fictional agenda of lofty proportions.  It’s a touching story about a maternally orphaned gay man who grows up interested in politics and during his last college years starts having aspirations of working his way up into the U. S. Senate after becoming a mayor and subsequent state House Representative.  But that goal is soon eclipsed by someone else proposing that he be the first gay man to reach the oval office.  Good thing this is fiction, huh?  I took care to title it ‘Oval Ambition ~ His Gay Agenda’ which is possessive for the character only instead of ‘Oval Ambitions ~ A Gay Agenda’ which would be taken by certain assholes as a plural and collective agenda for all homosexuals.

Anyway, Patrick makes best friends of Melissa in high school and they eventually come out to each other but never correct anyone’s assumptions that they are a couple.  In college, Patrick wins a quick mayoral replacement campaign and Melissa starts focusing her eye on getting him into the U. S. Senate.  They continue allowing others to believe they are an item even well into their college years and subsequently get married to have a child together.  Patrick and Melissa do love each other as something more than best friends but are just not sexually attracted to each other.  They even used in vitro fertilization via a turkey baster to get pregnant.  However, when on a honeymoon vacation together, they manage to play like swingers and enjoy the company of two other people; a man for him and another women for her so that they can legitimately create memories for themselves commensurate with what newlyweds on a honeymoon should experience and take with them for the rest of their lives.

After the honeymoon is over, what they had always felt to be true of themselves was unequivocally confirmed.  They now had an intimate confirmation of their sexual desires to be with someone of the same gender.  The question becomes that of how can they move forward in their lives together with political ambitions and also have what both of them want more than anything, to have intimacy within a loving relationship.  Can they do it?  If they try, will it come back to bite them both on the ass?  Read on as you travel through the mind and psyche of Patrick and Melissa Van Zandt.  Experience their love and dedication for each other which is only eclipsed only by their passion for tender affections found in the arms of two other people.

PERSPECTIVE: My Own Thoughts…

Image that from birth, you were naturally wired a specific way. God made you straight. As a man, you are naturally compelled towards women. You are attracted to them and desire them. They excite you and get your hormones all stirred up. When the day came in your life that you fell in love with the most perfect soulmate for you, imagine how much you wanted to put her up on a pedestal above all other women and would eventually marry her.

NOW - image that as perfect as your world is and before you met the love of your life (or afterward in some cases) you decide that you have divine control over your life. You wake up one day and say to yourself, Wait, I think that I will choose to lead a gay lifestyle. I can do that, after all because it's a choice. I can be just as attracted to a man as I can a woman. I can love him as I do a woman. I can engage in all manners of sex with him as I would with a woman and let him do the same to me as he would with a woman.  I look forward to new laws where gay marriage gets overturned and becomes up to individual states to decide if they are going to allow or recognize gay marriage or not. I look forward to traveling throughout the United States and the thrill that I'll get to experience as my marriage becomes invalidated as I cross any particular state's line. I look forward to a car accident where my same sex soulmate, whom I’ve married, is taken to a hospital and I'm denied seeing him or having the doctor speak to me about his condition and care.

Imagine making that CHOICE to live your life against the mainstream grain of society and in so being outcast in most places that you travel to or live in. Imagine... You can't because God made you straight. In all of His perfection, he made you just that way you are so that you don't have to make such a preposterous decision for yourself. Why would anybody purposefully choose that lifestyle? IT IS NOT A CHOICE!!! I can no sooner choose a sexual attraction to a woman any more than you can make a conscious CHOICE to be sexually attracted to a man and desire every level of intimacy with him as you think that I should with a woman.

I am the way that God made me. Try putting on my shoes, at least in your mind, before taking such a stance and exercising your voice about something that you honestly do not understand. It's not complicated just because you do not get it. For any issue, try walking in the shoes of someone else whose issue you don't understand before judging them and pushing for hateful laws that take away rights instead of helping to guaranteeing them for everyone. That is what being a true and honest Christian is all about. Anything contrary to that is just vial hatred which is a sin unlike my being gay which is the way I was wired and divinely made by God regardless of what the Catholic Church of the United States, my own Church, has to say about the matter! I have two words for any deacon, priest or arch bishop who disagrees with me, BLESS YOU!  And may the Holy Spirit find its way into your hardened heart to help you all be better Christians in following the example of our Holy Father, Pope Francis who said, Who am I to judge?

GLAD Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders

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Boston, MS 02108

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Website: www.glad.org

MARRIAGE - A HISTORY OF CHANGE

The institution of civil marriage has undergone enormous change in recent times. Within the last century, states could still place extensive restrictions on obtaining a divorce, ban interracial marriage, and subjugate the rights of women to their husbands. The picture now is very different. Racial discrimination within marriage has ended, married women have equal rights to married men, and most states have created access to no-fault divorce. Historians believe ending discrimination against same-sex couples in marriage is no more dramatic than other recent changes.

The last vestige of discrimination in marriage lies in the refusal of the government to grant same-sex couples access to the institution. While scaremongers would have people believe that marriage for same-sex couples will spell an upsurge in infidelity, the break-up of families and society, and the death of marriage itself, the same arguments were put forward against every one of the above changes to marriage. All of these fears have proved groundless. Marriage has always been an evolving institution, taking account of shifting societal attitudes and changing needs of families. Just as other recent changes, thought radical at the time, have done nothing to undermine marriage, acknowledging the right of committed gay and lesbian couples to marry would strengthen the institution.

Race and Marriage - The ongoing struggle to secure the right to marry the partner of your choice, regardless of their sex or sexual orientation, has clear parallels to the battle to end race discrimination in marriage. Just as people defending interracial marriage bans invoked divine law, immorality and unnatural unions as arguments against ending discrimination, so do the opponents of civil marriage for same-sex couples. While there are differences between the two issues, there are also profound and inescapable similarities.

Forty U.S. states, including Massachusetts, once prohibited marrying someone of the wrong race, no matter how much you loved them. Social prejudice accomplished much the same result in other states. Marriages between whites and persons of color were decried as immoral and unnatural. Polls showed that overwhelming numbers of Americans agreed. Massachusetts forbade interracial marriage as early as 1705, a restriction which was ultimately changed in 1843 after a three year campaign in the legislature. The legislature understood that withholding marriage based on race was an affront to human dignity and denied our basic guarantees of equality.

Despite the public opposition to interracial marriage, in 1948, the California Supreme Court became the first state high court to declare a ban on interracial marriage unconstitutional. In Perez v. Sharp the Court stated that:

A member of any of these races may find himself barred from marrying the person of his choice and that person to him may be irreplaceable. Human beings are bereft of worth and dignity by a doctrine that would make them as interchangeable as trains.

The decision was controversial, courageous and correct. At that time, 38 states still forbade interracial marriage, and 6 did so by state constitutional provision.

Then, in 1967, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the remaining interracial marriage laws nation-wide. A Virginia judge had upheld that state’s ban on interracial marriages, invoking God’s intention to separate the races. The U.S. Supreme Court overturned his decision, declaring that:

the freedom to marry belongs to all Americans;

marriage is one of our vital personal rights and

the right to marry is essential to the orderly pursuit of happiness by a free [people].

The parallels between the struggle for the freedom to marry then, and the struggle for gay and lesbian couples today is illustrated by the endorsement of marriage for same-sex couples by civil rights organizations ranging from the Asian American Legal Defense & Education Fund, the Urban League of Eastern Massachusetts, the Mexican American LDEF, the National Asian Pacific American LDEF, and the Puerto Rican LDEF.

Civil Rights hero and now U.S. Representative John Lewis, speaking in condemnation of the Defense of Marriage Act (which denies federal recognition to marriages of same-sex couples) stated:

This bill is a slap in the face of the Declaration of Independence. It denies gay men and women the right to liberty and the pursuit of happiness … I have known racism. I have known bigotry. This bill stinks of the same fear, hatred, and intolerance. Every word, every purpose, every message is wrong. It is not the right thing to do, to divide America.

Women in Marriage - For hundreds of years, women had few to no legal rights once they married. Married women had no independent legal existence: they could not make contracts, maintain their own names, file lawsuits, have full ownership and control of property, and in some cases could not maintain custody of their children after their husband’s death. The husband controlled all the family earnings and all of his wife’s property in exchange for nothing firmer than the general social expectation that he would support his wife and children. Some of these inequalities continued well into the 20th century. Over time, however, both the courts and the legislature have changed marriage laws have changed to reflect the equality of spouses.

Divorce - In the early years of this country, divorce was exceedingly difficult to obtain. If people did get divorced, there were usually restrictions on the guilty party’s ability to marry again. Over time, to deal with abusive and failed marriages, people moved to states with fewer divorce restrictions. This issue polarized the states and even reached the attention of the U.S. Congress dozens of times in just over 60 years. Ultimately, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that states have to honor divorces granted in other states (Williams v. North Carolina). Later, beginning in the 1970’s, many states lifted restrictions on divorce, with most creating no-fault divorce systems. In other words, while we aspire to marriage as a lifelong commitment, that requirement is now absent from law.

History Points to A Tradition of Change - These historical examples point the way to the proper course in ending sex and sexual orientation restrictions in marriage. All of the elements that were once considered essential or natural to a marriage (that women be subordinate to men; that it be lifelong; that it be between people of the same race) have fallen away based on our growing respect for equality and individual freedom. Restricting who can marry whom based on their sex and sexual orientation is also discrimination. It may be controversial to change the status quo, but it is time for this last vestige of discrimination in marriage to end.

Reprinted with Permission

CHAPTER ONE

Studies show that no society that has totally embraced homosexuality has lasted more than a few decades.  So it's the death knell, in this country.  I honestly think it's the biggest threat, even, that our nation has, even more so than terrorism, or Islam, which I think is a big threat, okay.  Cause what's happening now, they're going after, uh, in schools, two year olds.  You know why they're trying to get early childhood education?  They want to get our young children into the government schools so they can indoctrinate them.  I taught school for close to twenty years, and we're not teaching facts and knowledge anymore, folks.  We're teaching indoctrination.  And they're going after our young children, as young as two years of age... to try to teach them that the homosexual lifestyle is an acceptable lifestyle.

Sally Kern, State Representative, Oklahoma

It was four o’clock in the morning and the doctor was saying ‘push’ for the very last time.  My mother pushed the hardest that she could and out I popped at eleven pounds, three ounces.  I was twenty three inches long with my head measuring right at sixteen inches.  Yeah, I was a big baby.  It was a very difficult pregnancy.  Mom suffered with high blood pressure during the last half of the nine months; though her doctor professed to have it under control.  She and Dad were both made aware of how difficult this pregnancy was going to be and then there’s me being so incredibly big for a newborn.  So right after I was delivered, Mom fell back on the bed and was just drenched in sweat.  She was soaked all over; much more than what you normally see in a women during a delivery.  While nurses were tending to me and getting me cleaned up, Mom was just worn out and started sounding delirious which gave the doctor a lot more concern.  As he was checking her out, his worst fear looked eminent.  Mom was suffering from eclampsia which is one of the hypertensive disorders of pregnancy affecting about one in six thousand women.  She started seizing uncontrollably at which point Dad was rushed out of the room.  My mother was one of the unlucky few who suffered intracranial hemorrhaging.  It came on so quickly that there was nothing they could do to save her.  Within a minute or so she had passed away.

I never knew my mother.  She died only a few minutes after giving birth to me but with both of my grandmothers living close by, Dad had a lot of help in raising me as a single parent; a Dad and the one who had to still work to put food on our table.  Dad would never marry again.  He and Mom had a special kind of love.  You know the type; a love which is so pure and deep; a love that is so intense yet tender.  Dad would never meet another woman that made him feel like Mom did.  He became married to me, his son, and his career but ended up doing fairly well for himself.  I suppose we were what you’d call upper middle class.  Anyway, he climbed up the career ladder while maintaining his status as a single parent.  Before I became too old, perhaps before I was ten, I was already living a better life than most people.  I never wanted for anything, at least within reason, and while Dad was totally into his work, when he came home, I was his world and a day never went by that he didn’t make me feel just like that.

In fact I remember a day when Dad surprised me making me feel extra special.  It was my last fourth grade field trip that my class was taking to the city zoo.  In fact, it was the last week of school before our summer break and Dad volunteered to be one of the parental chaperones for the event so he took a day off from work.  This wasn’t something that I was used to seeing in him, but as it turns out it was something that he would start committing himself to doing more often.  I had to grow up without a mother, but he felt that I’d already lost too much of my youth without more of him.  Starting with this field trip Dad would begin investing more of his time with me though not exactly as he had planned.

My classmates and I were having a heck of a good time at the zoo.  Today was one of the rarer full day field trips where we got to spend as much time as we liked seeing all of the attractions.  When we got to the lion cage I was in awe.  Calling it a cage is sort of misleading because it was huge and looked like a natural habitat for them.  We were only separated by a tall reinforced chain link fence and a guard rail a few feet away that we weren’t allowed to go past.  I was holding on to that rail and watching these majestic cats run around and play.  After only a few minutes, some of the other kids started calling out to Tocho (toe-ko); he was the biggest lion and pride of the compound.  Tocho finally took interest in the kids and came running full speed up to us and launched himself at the fence making all of us jump back in fear.  It made you kind of wonder how that fence held up but it did.  As all of us took a frightful jump backward, I tripped over my dad’s shoe and spiraled backward to the ground hitting the right temporal area of my head on the hard surface, which unlucky for me was concrete.

Dad had turned around but couldn’t catch me, but he was still right there and called out to me, Patrick, are you okay?  I didn’t respond.  Right then Dad saw some blood pooling on the ground and reached down to pick me up.  Had he any medical training he wouldn’t have done that, but simply responded like any dad would.  He picked up my limp, unconscious body and yelled out, Someone please call nine-one-one.  A zoo staffer was nearby with a golf cart who shuttled us to their first aid area near the front gate.  An ambulance arrived about five minutes later.  The paramedics put a collar around my neck and strapped me down to a backboard before putting me in the ambulance with Dad.  They had me at the nearest hospital in no time at all.

Once we got to the emergency room, they cleaned up my head wound and started an I.V. on me before taking me to radiology for an MRI of my brain.  The doctor got with Dad first thing after reviewing the X-rays and said, Mr. Van Zandt your son has suffered a traumatic brain injury.  There is quite a bit of edema which is why he’s still unconscious and currently in a coma.  Dad asked, Edema, what’s that?  The doctor said, That’s swelling.  He currently has a lot of fluid and blood putting pressure on the brain right now.  His skull is also fractured, but it’s not significant enough to merit surgery in his condition.  As for the swelling, we will monitor him over the next twenty four hours and should know more by then.  Dad asked, Twenty-four hours and then what?  The doctor said, That’s all we know right now.  The next twenty four hours are crucial and getting him through the night is the most important thing.  Dad said, Are you saying that he may not make it through the night?  The doctor put his hand on Dad’s shoulder and said, I’m sorry, but you need to prepare yourself.  Is there somebody that we can call to be here with you?

Again, I was Dad’s world.  He lost his wife and I was all that he had left.  When he heard the doctor say that, it was more than he could bare.  Dad dropped to his knees and started crying.  The doctor and a nearby ER tech helped Dad get back up, took him to a private family room and sat with him for a moment with the doctor asking again if there was anyone that they could call for him.  Dad wiped away some tears and said, No, I’ll call them.  I have no signal, can I dial out on this phone?  The doctor said, Yes and is there anything that I can get you?  Dad said, No, I’ll be alright.  The doctor and technician left the room while Dad called his parents and my mom’s parents to come down to the hospital.  Dad called his parents first saying, "Dad, I need you and