30 Days
Now I wish I could be all 'yey!! 30 days and we find out what we are having!!' While that is the case. . .I was more specifically speaking about Morgan Sperlock's show: 30 Days. Basically it takes two polar opposites and puts them together for 30 days so they can actually stop living in fear and try and open their eyes.
The ones that really bother me, and they all bother me, are the ones where there is a huge amount of either fear or illogical behavior.
A white man living with Muslims. That one bugged me. Because you have a white man who is deeply Christian who thinks all Muslims are out to kill us. It's sad.
But the one that I think directly effects us, and when I say us I mean the American public, is the hatred that some have towards the lgbt community. The episode I watched (again sadly) yesterday was about gay adoption.
They had a right wing conservative woman live with a gay couple with four adopted children. She also adopted her two children and was against homosexuals (gay or lesbian) having children. Here is the description of the episode.
PARTICIPANT - Kati, 41
RESIDES - Fullerton, CA
OCCUPATION - Substitute Teacher
AIRDATE - Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Kati believes that children should be raised by a mother and a father and not by same-sex parents. As the mother of two adopted sons Kati believes that she has ample experience to determine what kind of environment is conducive to healthy, successful adoptions. In fact, Kati was adopted as an infant herself.
For 30 Days, Kati will live in Ypsilanti, Michigan with domestic partners Dennis and Thomas Patrick and their four adopted sons: Josh, 11; Paul, 8; Joey, 8; and Raul, 6. The Patrick's have been together for 10 years, and in 2001, Thomas legally changed his last name to Patrick. Kati will attend church with the family, help the boys get ready for school each morning and talk candidly about her views on parenting and gay adoption as she observes how the Patrick's parent their boys.
Kati will volunteer and travel to the state capitol with the Coalition for Adoption Rights Equality (CARE), a children's advocacy group lobbying for legislation to legalize dual-parenting rights for same-gender couples. She will socialize with women from the Lesbian Mom's Network, a group that connects lesbian mothers and their children with families like their own. She will also meet with former foster children who talk about what it's like to grow up without parents or a permanent home and the need for more foster parents.
Now while I understand the concern, it's very discriminating to assume because you live a certain way. Her main concern was that 'children raised in a gay household will grow up thinking it's okay to be gay.'
Isn't it? It's okay to be black, white, Jewish or Latino, why isn't it okay to be gay? "Because the bible says so."
This is where they loose me too.
The bible also says it's okay to sell your daughter into slavery and stone them if they are bad. I don't really see bible thumpers encouraging that.
It also confuses me that, and I’m making a blanket association here not all Christians are like this, instead of preaching tolerance and love (which is what Jesus did) they preach "God hates Fags" and "Marriage is between a man and a woman"
Where is the tolerance? Where is the live and let live? Oh, right . . it's for the children that we worry. Well, what of the children who were in foster care? No one would want them? They would eventually age out of the system having no family. That's better?
For some, it is. Their paranoia about gay or lesbian couples adopting a child is so great; they are so threatened that they would rather those children suffer without a family.
That is the injustice. That people would hold their beliefs so tightly that they can't agree to do what's best for the kids; they do what's best for THEM. It's offensive to me that some would demand laws past to prevent gays from adopting, when no one complains about the white supremacists who might adopt . . .no they are fine, but the butt pirates? Oh I can't deal with that.
Get a grip people. You are no different from the people back in the 60's who said it should be illegal for blacks and whites to marry. Seriously . . . .It's offensive to me that because of something they are, it's not what they choose, what they ARE is being discriminated against.
I was gonna write this about 'accidental parents' and 'planned parents' because that is part of this for me as well. Gay couples don't have the 'convenience' of being an 'accidental' parent as so many straight couples take for granted. I'm not saying that 'accidental' parents are bad parents I'm not saying that 'planned parents' are all good. . . .I'm saying to put everyone in a box and label it thusly is just . . . .wrong.
And I know some will say that I'm doing just that with Christianity, but I'm not. It's just the ones that have to have 'their moral's' upheld. To hell with ours.
The ones that really bother me, and they all bother me, are the ones where there is a huge amount of either fear or illogical behavior.
A white man living with Muslims. That one bugged me. Because you have a white man who is deeply Christian who thinks all Muslims are out to kill us. It's sad.
But the one that I think directly effects us, and when I say us I mean the American public, is the hatred that some have towards the lgbt community. The episode I watched (again sadly) yesterday was about gay adoption.
They had a right wing conservative woman live with a gay couple with four adopted children. She also adopted her two children and was against homosexuals (gay or lesbian) having children. Here is the description of the episode.
PARTICIPANT - Kati, 41
RESIDES - Fullerton, CA
OCCUPATION - Substitute Teacher
AIRDATE - Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Kati believes that children should be raised by a mother and a father and not by same-sex parents. As the mother of two adopted sons Kati believes that she has ample experience to determine what kind of environment is conducive to healthy, successful adoptions. In fact, Kati was adopted as an infant herself.
For 30 Days, Kati will live in Ypsilanti, Michigan with domestic partners Dennis and Thomas Patrick and their four adopted sons: Josh, 11; Paul, 8; Joey, 8; and Raul, 6. The Patrick's have been together for 10 years, and in 2001, Thomas legally changed his last name to Patrick. Kati will attend church with the family, help the boys get ready for school each morning and talk candidly about her views on parenting and gay adoption as she observes how the Patrick's parent their boys.
Kati will volunteer and travel to the state capitol with the Coalition for Adoption Rights Equality (CARE), a children's advocacy group lobbying for legislation to legalize dual-parenting rights for same-gender couples. She will socialize with women from the Lesbian Mom's Network, a group that connects lesbian mothers and their children with families like their own. She will also meet with former foster children who talk about what it's like to grow up without parents or a permanent home and the need for more foster parents.
Now while I understand the concern, it's very discriminating to assume because you live a certain way. Her main concern was that 'children raised in a gay household will grow up thinking it's okay to be gay.'
Isn't it? It's okay to be black, white, Jewish or Latino, why isn't it okay to be gay? "Because the bible says so."
This is where they loose me too.
The bible also says it's okay to sell your daughter into slavery and stone them if they are bad. I don't really see bible thumpers encouraging that.
It also confuses me that, and I’m making a blanket association here not all Christians are like this, instead of preaching tolerance and love (which is what Jesus did) they preach "God hates Fags" and "Marriage is between a man and a woman"
Where is the tolerance? Where is the live and let live? Oh, right . . it's for the children that we worry. Well, what of the children who were in foster care? No one would want them? They would eventually age out of the system having no family. That's better?
For some, it is. Their paranoia about gay or lesbian couples adopting a child is so great; they are so threatened that they would rather those children suffer without a family.
That is the injustice. That people would hold their beliefs so tightly that they can't agree to do what's best for the kids; they do what's best for THEM. It's offensive to me that some would demand laws past to prevent gays from adopting, when no one complains about the white supremacists who might adopt . . .no they are fine, but the butt pirates? Oh I can't deal with that.
Get a grip people. You are no different from the people back in the 60's who said it should be illegal for blacks and whites to marry. Seriously . . . .It's offensive to me that because of something they are, it's not what they choose, what they ARE is being discriminated against.
I was gonna write this about 'accidental parents' and 'planned parents' because that is part of this for me as well. Gay couples don't have the 'convenience' of being an 'accidental' parent as so many straight couples take for granted. I'm not saying that 'accidental' parents are bad parents I'm not saying that 'planned parents' are all good. . . .I'm saying to put everyone in a box and label it thusly is just . . . .wrong.
And I know some will say that I'm doing just that with Christianity, but I'm not. It's just the ones that have to have 'their moral's' upheld. To hell with ours.