Adam the Alien
The random thoughts of Adam J. Manley, better known as Adam the Alien. This is a secondary blog for fleeting fancies. Be sure to check out the main website at www.AdamTheAlien.com.
Church, I got to go to the Macklemore concert on Friday night. If you want to hear about how that went, ask me, seriously, I want to talk about it until I die. The whole thing was great; but the be… (Read the whole thing here.)
Read this. It’s beautiful. It’s a well-written blog by a straight, religious LGBT ally, directed to the church that she feels has alienated her and many others.
Also, you may want to read this GLAAD article, which follows up on the author, Dannika Nash, after the post gained popularity on the Internet. I’d like to quote this part, especially (the bolding is mine):
Nash’s blog post was not only widely shared and praised, but has also come at some personal cost. Since the letter was published, Nash has been fired from her summer job as a camp counselor. “I just cried in public,” she told the Sioux Falls Business Journal about hearing the news. “People probably thought (my boyfriend) was breaking up with me. The place and the people are really, really important to me, and even though I knew I was risking that a bit with the blog post, it hurt to have it taken away.”
While she has had several job offers from other Christian camps, and from LGBT reconciliation organizations, Nash has yet to decide what she will do.
Nash, a straight ally, said that she will remain resolutely committed to marriage equality no matter the consequences.
I’ll leave it without any further comment, for now, but I intend to write more on this later.
A majority of Senators now support the freedom to marry! Reblog this image to celebrate! http://bit.ly/ZCsBYj
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Last week, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments on two marriage cases. Show your support for the freedom to marry by sharing this great graphic.
So, this argument. “Kids do best with a mom and dad!”
My dad abandoned me as a kid and then I had a shitty stepdad. That really sucks, but it happens, and it has nothing to do with gay people getting married.
Kids do best with love and support. Adults do best when they’re not being assholes.
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“Kids do best with love and support. Adults do best when they’re not being assholes.”
Repeating that, because of reasons.SING IT WITH ME NOW!
KIDS DO BEST…WITH LOVE AND SUPPORT
ADULTS DO BEST…WHEN THEY’RE NOT BEING ASSHOLES
The age of the nuclear family was a lie even when it was the norm. It has not been the norm for some time. There are excellent single parents, horrible parental duos, there are children raised by grandparents, aunts, uncles, even literal versions of the “it takes a village” saying. And that’s just a few examples in a wide variety of parenting.
But even tossing all that aside, let’s examine this: “I think everyone deserves a mom and dad!” What is that statement even based on? Is it anatomical? Is it that you think a kid should be raised equally by a penis and a vagina? Why? Is it based on the idea that a traditional parental duo should have parents that differ when it comes to traditionally masculine and feminine traits? Okay, I don’t think that’s universally true, but I can see where that thinking comes from. But why does the gender role have to match the anatomy? Hell, more and more, moms are filling “dad” roles while dads are filling “mom” roles. Why do you think the child will lack that if both parents have the same genitals?
Any way you cut it, there is no universal truth to what sort of parenting is best for a child. Every circumstance you write out on paper has an equal chance to succeed or fail miserably when put to practice. Parenting is about the individuals involved, not any kind of set guidelines. It depends on the parents, the kids, the location, the rest of the family, the culture, etc. Even in a “traditional” parenting environment, what works for one family doesn’t work for another.
So take your “everyone deserves a mom and a dad” and kindly rethink what it is that makes you say that. As said in the quotes above, kids do best with love and support. Everyone deserves love and support. No matter where that love and support comes from, and no matter what genitals are or are not part of the people giving that love and support.
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Sen. Claire McCaskill from Missouri and Sen. Mark Warner from Virginia have added their names to the list of U.S. senators who openly support the right of same-sex couples to marry.
“I have come to the conclusion that our government should not limit the right to marry based on who you love,” McCaskill wrote. “My views on this subject have changed over time, but as many of my gay and lesbian friends, colleagues and staff embrace long term committed relationships, I find myself unable to look them in the eye without honestly confronting this uncomfortable inequality.”
Writing Monday on Facebook, Warner declared, “I support marriage equality because it is the fair and right thing to do. Like many Virginians and Americans, my views on gay marriage have evolved, and this is the inevitable extension of my efforts to promote equality and opportunity for everyone.”
There’s room for everyone on the right side of history.
Scalia is such a pig.
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