Do you really believe that mothers and fathers are interchangeable and that gender is irrelevant to parenting? If gender is really irrelevant, why do self-described “gays” insist on having a male sex partner? Why isn’t a really masculine woman just as acceptable as a male sex partner?
Some NOM Spokesperson, grasping at straws as well as reality
Tears from laughing. Tears.
Outside anti-gay organizations like the American Family Association, Family Research Council, Alliance Defense Fund, Faith & Freedom Coalition and National Organization for Marriage spent more than $1 million targeting three Iowa Supreme Court justices for defeat over the court’s ruling in favor of marriage equality … and I can’t say that I am surprised that the effort paid off.
I don’t care who anybody sleeps with. If a couple has been together all that time — and there are gay relationships that are more solid than some heterosexual ones — I think it’s fine if they want to get married. I don’t know how people can get so anti-something. Mind your own business, take care of your affairs, and don’t worry about other people so much.
Betty White, being a friend.
Gay kids are dying. So let’s try to keep things in perspective: Fuck your feelings.
The opening salvo of a full-on amazing response to a Christian upset by the implications that the rhetoric of Christian Anti-Equality Movement has something to do with the current rash of gay suicides.
the Washington Post’s remarkably poor decision to post Tony Perkins’s falsehood laden, anti-gay screed on their On Faith blog (on National Coming Out Day nonetheless) was because they felt they needed to “cover both sides” of “bullying and gay suicide.” No, really, they’re serious. Apparently they hosted a Live Q & A chat with Dan Savage to discuss “bullying and gay suicide” and his “It Gets Better Project,” which is a You Tube channel Savage created in order to reach out to gay youths to prevent suicide. So, to balance Savage, the Post turned to Perkins to respond. Apparently to the Post, gay suicide is a two-sided issue.
It’s tougher, more uncertain work creating a world that loves queer kids, that wants them to live and thrive. But try—try as if someone’s life depended on it. Imagine saying I really wish my son turns out to be gay. Imagine hoping that your 2-year-old daughter grows up to be transgendered. Imagine not assuming the gender of your child’s future prom date or spouse; imagine keeping that space blank or occupied by boys and girls of all types. Imagine petitioning your local board of education to hire more gay elementary school teachers.Against ‘Bullying’ or On Loving Queer Kids | The Nation
And what do you think? Gay soldiers are getting something out of the deal? ‘Hey I’m totally gaming the system. All I gotta do is go to Afghanistan for 18 months where a bunch of people are going to try and kill me, but on the plus side, I might just catch a glimpse of some dude’s weiner in the shower. Really.Amy Poehler “Really” (via tlmonahan)
(Source: herblondness, via stfuconservatives)
Even if the modern “marriage defender” isn’t brave enough to say so anymore or doesn’t understand the historical “traditional marriage” from which our institution has evolved, we need to continue questioning why some people insist on clinging so strongly to this “one man, one woman” relic.
It isn’t so much the idea of marriage as an institution that is allegedly “devoid of gender” that some people fear same-sex marriage implies, but the idea of marriage devoid of gender hierarchy.
During his reelection campaign, TNR wrote, [Presidendt Woodrow] Wilson had told a group of suffragists that “[h]e was with them,” even as “he confessed to a ‘little impatience’ as to their anxiety about method.” From this, the magazine concluded that the president had “at best a vague, benign feeling about [the issue], and no conviction whatever that woman suffrage was creating a national situation which called for thorough sincerity, nerve and will.”
An evasive stance on a controversial civil rights issue from a liberal president; an insistence that the issue is primarily local, rather than national, in character; a complete failure of sincerity, nerve, and will: If these things sound familiar in 2010, it is because Barack Obama is taking exactly the same approach on gay marriage.
