Richie Madden:
CLASS OF 1988
Truman High SchoolClass of 1988
Levittown, PA
Pennco TechnicalClass of 1990
Bristol, PA
Armstrong Middle SchoolClass of 1985
Fairless hills, PA
Washington Elementary SchoolClass of 1982
Levittown, PA
Richie's Story
Richie is from Levittown, Pennsylvania. He is married with Jim Madden. His schools include Truman High School, Washington Elementary School, Armstrong Middle School. He later attended Pennco Tech (Electronic Engineering Technology), Penn State Abington (Oracle 10g Certificate), University of Phoenix (Information Technology). He works(ed) at Working Dog Worx, IOA Re, Garden State Equality.
One of Richie's favorite quotes is:"âAnd some thing God created evolution, but I think man's evolution created god(s).â
--Richie Madden (me!)
âDarkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.â
--Martin Luther
âThe Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need more supervision.â
--Lynn Lavner
âThat is textbook, old-fashioned discrimination ... now it stands in front of marriage and says you can separate people based on who they love. ⦠Separate but equal was wrong in 1954, it is wrong today.â
--NJ Senator Bill Baroni [January 7, 2010]
âEach time a man stands for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.â
--Robert Kennedy
âThe way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.â
--Dolly Parton
âOnce social change begins, it cannot be reversed. You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read. You cannot humiliate the person who feels pride. You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore. We have seen the future, and the future is ours.â
--César Chávez
âWe still stand on the right side of Love, history and humanity. Sorry haters, but our god can still beat up your god."
--Michelle Clunie
"They say love is blind ... and marriage is an institution.
Well, I'm not ready ...Expand for more
for an institution for the blind just yet."
--Mae West
"When eating bamboo sprouts, remember the man who planted them."
- Chinese Proverb
"It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand."
- Mark Twain
"Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind."
- Bruce Lee
âEvery national church or religion has established itself by pretending some special mission from God - as if the way to God was not open to every man alike.â
- Thomas Paine
"I've never said that I hated gays. I have friends who are gay. I have hairdressers who are gay."
- Carrie Prejean
"Homosexuality is god's way of insuring that the truly gifted aren't burdened with children."
- Sam Austin
"I like my beers cold and my homosexuals flaming."
- Homer Simpson
"Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself."
- Harvey Fierstein
"God is an essence we know nothing of. Until this awful blasphemy is got rid of there will never be any liberal science in the world."
- President John Adams
"The clergy believe that any power confided in me will be exerted in opposition to their schemes, and they believe rightly."
- President Thomas Jefferson
"I have seldom met an intelligent person whose views were not narrowed and distorted by religion."
- President James Buchanan
"My earlier views on the unsoundness of the Christian scheme of salvation have become clearer and stronger with advancing years."
- President Abraham Lincoln".
More about Richie:"Komondor Lover⦠Bamboo Aficionado⦠Web / Database Geek⦠Gay Rights Advocate.
My life: Jimmy, Cora, Josh, Sable, Kaatzskyll, Friends, and of course, bamboo. ËÍË
Jimmy & I met⦠April 23, 1995
Our Wedding⦠December 6, 1997
Took Jimmy's name⦠April 14, 1998
New Jersey Domestic Partnership⦠July 12, 2004
New Jersey Civil Union⦠February 23, 2007
Connecticut Marriage⦠December 6, 2009
New Jersey Marriage⦠2013?".
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