Wednesday, November 05, 2008

My Mom is a(n) FOB

My mom isn’t fresh off the boat (unless by fresh, you mean almost 70 years), but it’s my favorite new blog.  I love this new entry: You tell ‘em, Momma! By mmiaf | November 4, 2008 A story from a MMIAF reader: “I recently explained to my mom what “Yes on 8? meant since there are a lot of signs in our neighborhood. We also just had two gay weddings in the family. On Thursday, at our neighborhood meeting, a woman running for a Senate seat in our district asked if we wanted a “Yes on 8? sign for our lawn. I respectfully turned it down, but then my mom laughed and said loudly, “We cannot take! Our family has the gay!”

Sadly, the idiotic California Proposition 8 initiative to “protect marriage” might win - they’re still counting the votes.  Apparently, heterosexuals are afraid that if we’re allowed to get married, somehow it’ll affect their marriage.  Perhaps they just ought to quit thinking about “the gay” all the time.  I don’t spend my time and money trying to stop bigots from marrying.  Or, maybe we should to try to change the constitution to prevent marriages between bigots, because they get married and fill the country with baby bigots.  Or, maybe we should change the constitution to criminalize divorce - wouldn’t that be a better “protection” of marriage?

It’s nice that we can elect a black man to be the President of the United States, but several states passed laws banning gay marriage…and one state passed a law banning adoption by unmarried couples, straight or gay.  I guess there always has to be someone they can legally hate.  They were only trying stop “the gays” from adopting, but the courts said that was discrimination, so they’re going after the straight unmarried couples now, too, just to make sure gay couples can’t adopt.  I sure hope all of those people who voted for it are adopting every single kid in their state who doesn’t have a family, because otherwise, how could they live with themselves?  Denying homes to kids, just because the voters don’t want gay parents.

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1. Thanks for posting about MMIAF!

   I’m sad about Prop 8 too. :(

   Teresa

   Teresa  on  11/05  at  03:49 PM

2. It always surprises me how conservative California votes on stuff like the gay.  Then again, at least gay marriage was legal there for awhile. 

   Yay to Nevada for going blue!!  Georgia was Republican as ever, so my vote was meaningless.

   Nancy  on  11/05  at  08:09 PM

3. I live in a country where same-sex marriage is legal, but I find myself crushed by the passage of Proposition 8. In fact, I’ve been having quite the heated battle in the comments section of my own blog. I thought that I was articulating my point well, but to no avail. You simply can’t talk sense into some people. Alas, you also can’t strangle them.

   Calamity Jenni  on  11/10  at  10:45 PM

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