I want to cry.
Crossposted from Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters by Alvin McEwen
As we all know, the National Organization for Marriage has pledged $2 million dollars to reverse the recent ruling which gives marriage equality to same-sex couple in New York and to punish the senators who voted for it.
Well as far as I'm concerned, NOM can stick its $2 million where the sun doesn't shine.
You know why? Because of this:
Part of me didn't want to talk this story. I didn't want to mention it for fear of being accused of exploiting the situation.
But my spirit won't let me keep quiet.
Two million dollars to keep punish lawmakers for standing up for equality? And by a nasty extension, two million dollars to remind same-sex families like the Gill family in Florida (who took in two abused children and nurtured them , providing them with the love of a family) that no matter how much they love their children and each other, they will always be inferior because God says so?
No. Not God. God never said.
His so-called messengers who have volunteered to speak for him have said so - the National Organization for Marriage, Archbishop Timothy Dolan, Jason McGuire, Ruben Diaz, Brian Brown, Maggie Gallagher, and the rest of the assorted ecclesiastical odd balls.
Because people like the Gill family and same-sex couples in general dilute marriage? They take away from children "the chance" to be raised by their natural mother and father?
Meanwhile, a 13-year-old child was placed in a cage by his natural father and subjected to so much abuse that the poor thing actually wished he was dead. Pretty soon, he got his wish.
Why can't $2 million be devoted to stopping travesties like this?
As God is my witness, I am so sick of phony traditional values groups with more money than shame or self-respect, who will use meaningless hypothetical terms and scare tactics to divide and distract simply because they lose battles to legally force the rest of us to abide by their definition of "family."
It's starting to make me sick.
All of us need to send up a prayer for Chritian Choate. We should be thankful that he is finally with SOMEONE who loves him.
And finally, we all need to pray that these self-appointed moral squads (i.e. NOM, etc) get a clue or at least get the hell out of the way of reality.
Crossposted from Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters by Alvin McEwen
As we all know, the National Organization for Marriage has pledged $2 million dollars to reverse the recent ruling which gives marriage equality to same-sex couple in New York and to punish the senators who voted for it.
Well as far as I'm concerned, NOM can stick its $2 million where the sun doesn't shine.
You know why? Because of this:
Records of the Indiana Department of Child Services reveal that Christian Choate, a boy who authorities claim lived locked in a cage and died from savage abuse, wrote letters describing his situation and saying that he wanted to die.
According to the Chicago Tribune, DCS visited with the Choate family in Gary, Indiana more than a dozen times starting in 1999, investigating allegations of abuse and neglect. Authorities never discovered what prosecutors claim was the true depth of the misery in which young Christian lived.
Based on accounts from his sister and stepsister, Christian, who died in 2009 at age 13, spent much of the last year of his life locked in a three-foot-high dog cage, with little food and drink and few opportunities to leave. When he did get out of the cage, he endured savage beatings from his father Riley.
Part of me didn't want to talk this story. I didn't want to mention it for fear of being accused of exploiting the situation.
But my spirit won't let me keep quiet.
Two million dollars to keep punish lawmakers for standing up for equality? And by a nasty extension, two million dollars to remind same-sex families like the Gill family in Florida (who took in two abused children and nurtured them , providing them with the love of a family) that no matter how much they love their children and each other, they will always be inferior because God says so?
No. Not God. God never said.
His so-called messengers who have volunteered to speak for him have said so - the National Organization for Marriage, Archbishop Timothy Dolan, Jason McGuire, Ruben Diaz, Brian Brown, Maggie Gallagher, and the rest of the assorted ecclesiastical odd balls.
Because people like the Gill family and same-sex couples in general dilute marriage? They take away from children "the chance" to be raised by their natural mother and father?
Meanwhile, a 13-year-old child was placed in a cage by his natural father and subjected to so much abuse that the poor thing actually wished he was dead. Pretty soon, he got his wish.
Why can't $2 million be devoted to stopping travesties like this?
As God is my witness, I am so sick of phony traditional values groups with more money than shame or self-respect, who will use meaningless hypothetical terms and scare tactics to divide and distract simply because they lose battles to legally force the rest of us to abide by their definition of "family."
It's starting to make me sick.
All of us need to send up a prayer for Chritian Choate. We should be thankful that he is finally with SOMEONE who loves him.
And finally, we all need to pray that these self-appointed moral squads (i.e. NOM, etc) get a clue or at least get the hell out of the way of reality.
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