A true story in the spirit of Utah Phillips:
We knew him as ‘RH’, short for
Runninghorse; no, he’s not Native American. He was a presence at Diablo Valley
College in the 1990s, a loud mouthed presence. Nobody ever challenged his
leadership of the Frank Little Club. He was full of energy, a zeal for
organizing, a megaphone voice, and a confrontational attitude; he started the
club, chaired meetings, and actually cooperated, to a modest extent, with the
college Administration. He did a lot of heavy work.
But we also knew that he
was an absolute creep. Women in the club did not care to work alone with him,
and they had good reason. That’s an odd situation for the leader of a left-wing
political action club.
Now I have to relate one
story to his credit—sort of.
It’s a complicated saga
of local politics that starts thusly:
The Reverend Lloyd
Mashore, of a fundamentalist congregation in Concord, waxed wroth over the
rising tide of the supposed ‘Homosexual Agenda’, specifically the idea that
‘Christians’ were being forced into politically correct tolerance of whatever
the Lloyd Mashores of the world fear. His big outrage was that Christian
property owners were being compelled to rent homes to gays and lesbians, people
certain to engage in unbiblical activities inside these Christian owned
bedrooms.
Proof positive, to Lloyd
Mashore, that True Religion was under persecution. The Secularists must surely
be ready to bring back the popular sport of feeding the lions.
