Oscar Wilde once said, "Morality is simply the attitude we adopt toward people whom we personally dislike."

Today that morality is simply hateful as any "truth truck" will attest.

These broken-down vehicles of bigotry are making the rounds. Friday, it was Annapolis, but they're coming your way, too. It's equal opportunity discrimination, a circus on wheels intent on spreading the word to legislatures in state capitals across America.

Let me count the profiteering ways.

The unfettered greed of Wall Street crippled America's Main Street, a domino effect contributing to global recession. Big Health insurance led by #1 United Health and its conservative lobbyists distorted facts, spread falsehoods and instigated near riot conditions from Town Hall meetings to Capitol Hill. It was a calculated, covert strategy of fear, employing everyday Americans to kill the health care bill. Reform intended to benefit them most.

The strategy worked. A disenfranchised and misinformed middle class rallied to dilute the positive impact of legitimate health care reform.

Now Big Telecom is successfully employing the same tactic, exploiting the very people it allegedly serves.

Even fair-minded American tax-payers harbor conflicted feelings about subsidizing medical care for transgender inmates. I doubt I'm going out on a limb to speculate the majority do.

Likewise more than a few within the transgender community are at odds over the free lunch their incarcerated "cousins" receive on the tab of state taxpayers. Comparisons are made between the inequities of self-funded, transition-related medical care in the outside world and the assumed privilege of inmates receiving free transition care inside prison.

I'd argue there's a fundamental misunderstanding at play. It's based on a flawed system. That system has little to do with prison reform.

Even in prison the right to life remains inalienable, unless the inmate happens to be transgender and in need of hormone therapy.

Yesterday Wisconsin's exclusionary medical care model, practiced in prisons across America's Dairyland was found guilty in Federal Court. U.S. District Judge Charles Clevert declared Wisconsin's discriminatory policy unconstitutional and unenforceable.

Republican Rep. Scott Suder called the verdict a "travesty of justice."

One of the measure's original sponsors, Sen. Ted Kanavas, (R-Brookfield), labeled the ruling "absurd."

Last week in Annapolis, George voted to represent his brand of extremist ideology, dissenting on House Bill 462. Once again he shamefully voted to perpetuate discrimination against the very people he represents. This time it's our teachers. Once again he's chosen to disregard his representative duty.

House Bill 462 proposes "altering a provision of law relating to discrimination in the employment of teachers in the public schools in the State to conform to other provisions of State law governing discrimination in employment."

What it means is adding "sexual orientation" to existing protected State classes. This is the dangerous intersection where Church and State mix like snake oil and water. Nevertheless it's an old fashioned, home recipe Delegate George like so many other social conservatives across America loves to follow.

That was the first sign I spotted a block or so away.

It seemed oddly reminiscent of late 1960's America. The tense days of the Vietnam War protest movement. I couldn't help but push forward with my Nikon, not certain what I'd find.

The message came courtesy of the Freedom Socialist Party and Radical Women, a group I'd never heard of. I shortly learned theirs was but one of hundreds of causes in banner-form streaming down M Street.

It was one of the many images I captured during Saturday afternoon's Anti-War march in Washington, DC, an unintended happenstance of my visit to the National Geographic Museum.

The ENDA support coalition was organized by the National Center for Transgender Equality, NCTE, as part of its National Policy Forum, "Moving Forward Together." More than 100 Congressional offices were lobbied to support a gender-identity inclusive Employment Non-Discrimination Act.

Workplace protections for sexual orientation and gender identity have been aruged and denied since first proposed in 1994.

Likewise, ultra-conservative Tea Partiers mobilized by a "Red Alert" swarmed Congressional and Senate buildings albeit in far superior numbers Tuesday. Their agenda was straightforward. Defeat healthcare reform at any cost with an uncompromising "Say No" message of fiscal gloom and doom.

During my three Congressional meetings on behalf of ENDA Tuesday a common theme emerged. The protracted partisan struggle for Health Care Reform was cited as the #1 reason vote-worthy legislation like ENDA has been tabled.

Saturday evening CNN premiers the biographical documentary "Her Name Was Steven."

Angela voiced concern about the overnight celebrity of ex-Largo city manager, the former Steven Stanton, propelled to national prominence after being outed as transsexual by the St. Petersburg Times in 2007.

Stanton was shortly thereafter introduced to the world as Susan. Thus began the year-long media-manufactured journey of transsexual woman Susan Stanton, embarking into the Brave New World of "real life experience."

Gloomy gray skies and rain prevailed outside the Miller Senate building. Inside the Judicial Proceedings Committee a storm of hateful discrimination raged.

Let me assure you it was far more frightening to be seated inside, part of an edgy, restless audience than standing outside, cold and alone in the rain.

• The Bilerico Project - and my own words - were used to exploit.
• A former gay-leader was cited to deny transgender equality.
• A child was booed for her civil rights analogy, a plea for marriage equality.
• And an oppressed minority played the oppressor.

It was a sad day; a mournful moment of déjà vu in the Free State and for LBGT citizens across America.

Delegate Ron George is one of 3 congresspersons representing my district and the lone Republican. He's a businessman and jeweler by trade. His college degree is acting--visual and performing arts. Skills he noted with a chuckle he's plied since his election to the Maryland House of Delegates in 2007.

Little did our group know we were about to be entertained by a most unbelievable, one-man show.

Maddow played a video excerpt from C-SPAN. Business as usual for Capital Hill Congress until irate New York congressman Anthony Weiner took to the podium with a vengeance.

His was an adrenalin-rush of a rant reminiscent of 1976 Oscar-Award winning film, "Network". Back in the day Peter Finch delivered the classic line, "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore".

Sometimes a cold slap in the face is a good thing. In this C-SPAN thriller Mr. Weiner served a wakeup call to the desperate need for health care AND political party reform.

Video and more after the jump.

The opinion concludes the State of Maryland may recognize a same-sex marriage that is valid in the jurisdiction in which it was contracted. The Attorney General's opinion also applies to valid marriages performed in foreign countries.

Maryland may have had its fill of snow, but its LGBT advocates can't wait to push an aggressive equality agenda to the General Assembly in 2010.

Last week HB 90 the anti-same-sex marriage bill sponsored by Delegate Emmett Burns of Baltimore was defeated. 20 same-sex marriage supporters offered compelling testimony on behalf of equality. The opposition countered with 4 on the merits of discrimination.

"Anybody can love whoever they want to love, but that doesn't rise to the status of marriage," remarked Burns.

The House Judiciary Committee disagreed, voting 12-8 in favor of equality.

My initial reaction to the draft after a cursory review is generally positive. It's progress. The new code would replace the punitive descriptor "disorder" with the palliative term "incongruence." But does it cure what really ails us?

"This is an affirmation that my cause was a right cause, and that I was right in pursuing this through the court. Now the long wait is over and my brothers and sisters can take a medical deduction for their treatments for gender identity disorder without fear that their medical deduction is going to be denied by the IRS."

Her case will heretofore be recognized as the landmark victory of transgender rights over discriminatory IRS tax policy. In legalese the case is filed as Rhiannon G. O'Donnabhain v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue. But in everyday practice it's the little David's and Davina's of America triumphing over the big, bad Goliath of the Internal Revenue Service.