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06/16/2008
Hope you had an extra slice of cake, dads!
Over the weekend, one of the groups that has most successfully turned anti-gay fear-mongering into an art form, the Family Research Council, ran the following ad in California papers:
Which is OBVIOUSLY insane. Everyone knows that in between our attempts to eliminate husbands and de-patriarch the American family unit, we "radical" gays are going to first seduce the nation's grandparents with our wily homo advances, so as to retroactively destroy the male-female family dynamics that are already in place. Then once we're done bedding gramps and grammy, we're going to alter the death certificates of all the world's heteros so that after the "cause of death" part, a parenthetical element will be added reading: "or perhaps they died because their gay secret became too much handled?" After that, we're gunning for white picket fences, Apple pie, family picnics, the 4th of July, puppies, and the concept of "wholesome" in general. Then and only then will we move on to removing "father" from birth certificates, so as to become the Grinches who steal Father's Day.
So you best be raising your consciousness now, FRC. For yesterday was not only the last Father's Day neck tie you will ever receive. No, no -- we gays will be morphing into the monsters that we truly are over the coming year, and then we are COMING FOR YOUR EVER-LOVING SOULS!!!!!! Bwaa haaaaa haaaaaa, Bwaa haaaaa haaaaaa, , Bwaa haaaaa haaaaaa!!!!!
[::writer pulls cape over his face and disappears in a puff of sulfuric smoke::]
Happy Parent Number 1 Day! [FRC]
Your thoughts
Remove the word father from birth certificates??? I want to see it possible to add another father to the birth certificate. When I adopted our children from China, the domestic court in the U.S.A. reissued a state birth certificate with my name as the father. They would not add my partner as another parent.
It would be nice if California would issue custom made marriage licenses. There could be husband and wife licenses, husband and husband licenses, and wife and wife licenses. Although, when the hubby and I registered as domestic partner, the application did read Applicant A and Applicant B. That seems quite enough for me, but the husband and husband licenses and wife and wife licenses might just cause heads to explode at the FRC.
Posted by: Mike in the Tundra | Jun 16, 2008 9:35:38 AM
I think this might have more with Tony Perkin's father wishing he had the option of having his name removed from his demon spawn's birth certificate.
Posted by: johnozed | Jun 16, 2008 10:17:04 AM
Let me see if have this straight:
Gays shouldn't be allowed to marry because they can't have children.
Gays shouldn't be allowed to marry because their unions might harm children.
Which one is it???
How can we harm the children we don't have? How can providing legal protections for our children harm them?
Posted by: stojef | Jun 16, 2008 4:09:31 PM
If you go over to FRC's site, they have a graphic of Happy Father's Day with "Father's" crossed out and replaced with "Parent #1's".
Hmm. Seems like if a woman is squeezing something the size a watermelon out of a hole the size of a nostril, SHE should at least be called "Parent #1."
Or would that be unbiblical - you know, implying that a woman can be #1 and a man #2? HEAVEN FORBID!!
Posted by: stojef | Jun 16, 2008 4:13:16 PM
Oh, hello kettle. I'm a pot. My, you're black.
Aren't the proponents of the big "compromise" of domestic partnerships always saying that titles and terminology is all semantics, and if we have legal recognition of our unions that it should be good enough, and they don't understand why we insist we want equal MARRIAGE? So then why should anyone care if they are listed as "husband" or "applicant #1"? Isn't it all semantics?
Oh, wait. Heteros want marriage, husband, wife, father, mother, and any other title you can think of that if applied to a 'mo would cause the Phelps family to collectively shit a brick ALL to THEMSELVES? We should be happy with the scraps at the back door, but it's a HUGE insult to them to have even a GLIMMER of what it feels like to be us simply because it now says "applicant #1"? Silly me. I thought the days of nobility/peasantry were over, but alas, we poor homosexual wretches can only dream of what it would feel like to hold a title like "husband" or "wife".
Posted by: Wren | Jun 16, 2008 7:02:57 PM
"Aren't the proponents of the big "compromise" of domestic partnerships always saying that titles and terminology is all semantics..."
Totally!! How many times have we heard that civil unions are just homosexual marriage by another name? Well, now we got the name. Nuthin's changed.
And don't forget all the arguments years ago that these sort of things should be decided by LEGISLATURES and not activist judges. Then when legislatures started enacting DP benefits throughout the nation the argument was "The people should have a vote to protect marriage from rogue or liberal legislatures!" And when the pro-gay legislators who enacted these held on to their seats and the people voted in more pro-gay legislators, the arguments turned to "The people must decide through a petition drive!"
What's going to happen if the constitutional amendment fails in California? What are they going to argue - that 5 or 6 million people were fooled by militant hommaseckchulls
Shut up and go back to your prie dieus. We gonna celebrate.
Posted by: stojef | Jun 16, 2008 8:34:23 PM
I was floored when I saw this trash by the "frc", and cannot believe that someone can be so biased and hateful against gays.
Posted by: Gretchen | Jun 17, 2008 12:30:08 PM
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