BibleSexy.com Going to Hell with Gasoline Drawers!

Hello World! Welcome to my newest blog, Bible Sexy. Why Bible Sexy? Because it’s just wrong on so many levels to so many people! I want to slap those people in the face and say “Hey! I didn’t just slap you, I slapped you back!” That’s for the forty years of you telling me that I was a worthless, sinning, pile of doo-doo, and not worthy of the glory of your invisible friend!

There, I’m over it, at least until I see another billboard that asks me if I’m saved.

Know your blogger!

Here’s about me:

I’m a forty-one year old father of a twelve year old son. My name is Mike. I’m Gay, and active in the GLBT community. My partner’s name is Jim. Jim works for Emerson in St. Louis. We’ve been together for about a year and a half as I write this. I am a Lieutenant for the Cleveland Division of Police in Cleveland, OH. This month I had 6 years as a lieutenant and this coming June, I will celebrate 18 years with the Division.

I served for five years on the Cleveland Pride Festival and Parade Committee and Three Years on the Board of Directors, Two of which were served on the Executive board as Treasurer and Secretary respectively. I left the Pride board to found the Ohio Lesbian Gay Police Association, which I still lead fearlessly (tongue in cheek).

When I was young I paid attention to my dad when he moaned about all the things he regretted not having done in his life. his life had been utterly without excitement and I determined that mine would be packed with it. The the extent that such is possible, I live an exciting life on purpose!

Here are some of my life’s exciting highlights:

• Got my motorcycle endorsement at 16 learned to do wheelies
• Joined the Army Reserve at 17 – Honorable discharge after six and a half years of “not telling” before ‘Don’t Ask-Don’t Tell’ (did we really need it?)
• Woke up under 6 inches of snow in Germany – got arrested by the politzi (released without charges)
• Had coffee in the Azores
• Rode across the Atlantic ocean in a non-pressurized C-130 – sitting in a canvas net swing seat!
• Used and abuse recreational drugs and alcohol as a teen – was arrested and determined to be a juvenile delinquent – quit all substances at 19 years old – sober since
• Piloted a hanglider for 5 years – stopped when my close friend and mentor was killed in hanglider accident (Mikey was one year old at the time and not ready to be without a father)
• Parachuted – jumped twice, found it anticlimactic after hangliding for so long
• Learned to windsurf on Lake Erie – lessons stopped prematurely with death of instructor, friend and mentor in hanglider crash.
• Learned to ski – cross country and down hill – was a ski father for Mikey’s school for 4 years
• Drove cars very very fast – exceeded 140 mph on some occasions. Drove in wild police chases and emergency response on city streets – several frightening crashes!
• Involved in police shooting incidents – details excluded for the sake of taste and tact
• Involved in intense street level inner-city police work – and NEARLY ALL that that implies
• Walked a mile of rail road tracks, marking body part locations for Forensics to photograph
• Seen life go out of this world more much more often than I’ve seen it come in
• Had a fairy tale wedding, complete with Hawaiian honeymoon, and the Ozzy and Harriet family life as a ’straight’ man for nearly 11 years
• Snorkeled in Hawaii
• Rode in small helicopter over active volcanic vents
• Helped birth our son – held him as he spent his first night in this world sleeping on my chest
• Photographed large alligators from spitting distance in Florida
• Ran from black bear in Canada
• Travelled 49 of 50 United States – Alaska’s really cold and really far!
• Partied like a rock star on Santa Monica Boulevard.
• Dove into Lake Erie from the top of a 40 foot, three story luxury motor yacht
• Hobnobbed at black tie affairs with senators, judges and the social elites
• Crashed at flop houses with perfect strangers in strangers with no money and no plan – that was the plan
• Drove Joshua and Jacob Miller of “Nemesis” in the Pride parade
• Did live stand-up comedy (paid thank you very much) for nearly five years – including a show in Ontario, California with Jay Leno

So, there’s a lot more but this should be enough for you to get the point. In the end, I can say that living such a selfishly exciting life has caused me some regrets. It has cost me my health. In 2006 I underwent major, life-saving neck surgery to relieve pressure on my spinal cord caused by a 2003 duty-related car crash. Unfortunately, while still recovering from the surgery, I was in another very minor car accident in which my spinal cord suffered permanent injury. This will likely end my career with the Division of Police as they have a strict policy regarding street readiness of all officers, including supervisors.

So in preparing for what comes next, I blog. My hope is that from the exciting life I have lived, I have gained some perspective which is unique enough to make my writing stand out so that you the reader will be entertained and enlightened. Whether I am sharing about my past or ranting about the present, my hope is that I don’t sound like every other blogger. That I stand out in some small way so that people will find me interesting enough to read again and again. Maybe, you’ll even subscribe to my feed.

It could be dangerous though; Jesus may not like you reading what I write. So I say, be brave dear reader, be brave.