Sunday, October 15, 2006
Another day, another anti-gay marriage rally
On November 9th, the Massachusetts Legislature is to vote on whether to advance toward the ballot a measure that would overturn same-sex marriage in Massachusetts, the only state where it is legal.As reported in the Boston Sunday Globe, today Mitt Romney will join in a radio broadcast to make sure America knows that he is "family friendly".
The event, dubbed "Liberty Sunday" by its organizer, the Family Research Council, will be simulcast from the Tremont Temple Baptist Church , near Boston Common, to hundreds of churches. It will also be broadcast on several Christian television and radio networks as well as over the Internet.
"The governor recognizes that this event is an important milestone in the effort to preserve traditional marriage in Massachusetts," said Romney's spokesman, Eric Fehrnstrom . ``The governor will talk about the importance of marriage, and the fact that the debate over gay marriage is not so much a debate about adult rights as it is about the rights of children to be raised in a home with a mother and a father."
When will these people look around and see the Real World? As a single mother who raised 4 children, I guess my children were denied their rights "to be raised in a home with a mother and a father". I guess the fact that they lived in a nice home provided by their mother, a home with love, laughter, comfort, and security, does not count because the father was absent. Bull Shit!
The "traditional family" is going the way of the Dodo Bird. Look around. It is perfectly legal for a single woman to go to a sperm bank and become impregnated, give birth, and raise that baby herself. Why is that legal and gay marriage not? What does one have to do with the other? Are all divorced people or single parents kicked out of their churches? Talk about hypocrisy.
The important word in Romney's quote above is "home". A child's right to live in a home with love, laughter, comfort, and security has nothing to do with the genders of the persons who are raising that child.
And it has nothing to do with gay marriage.
Countess Bedelia 10/15/2006 11:32:00 AM
2 Comments:
It sure would be nice if we could outlive all those bigots, but odds are not good.
Romney is the biggest threat to freedom in general, since--well--no one in this country.