The Family Research Council is a dangerous organization - but one that I agree with on one simple matter. They say they believe in "Healthy Marriages and Strong Families". Duh! Can you find anyone who doesn't believe that a healthy marriage and family are not good things.
The problem is that they want to define what a healthy marriage and strong family is.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=6oBpgtRyM18#!
Notice the scene with the flooded house? What the hell...?
Why are people still supporting organizations like this?
Showing posts with label marriage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label marriage. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Friday, June 24, 2011
Start spreading the news...
Thank you New York. You couldn't have made it happen any closer to the deadline - but you came through. Now let's start spreading this movement further west.
Sunday, April 17, 2011
Family
You thought I had given up on this blogging thing - didn't you? I'm back and will even switch topics from the realm of Caden's sporting life.
A mailing came recently that seemed tame at first glance - but it's always those second glances that get me to thinking. It's from Basic Rights Oregon (BRO) which is a statewide organization that works toward advancing equal rights for us gay folk here in our fine state. I think they actually use the term "Gay Rights" but I've never been comfortable with that term myself because I want "Equal" rights to the hetero population and using the other term just makes it sound like we want something special - which we don't. No big whoop though - just a little quirk that I have.
Anyway...kind of went off on a tangent there and although this post involves a tangent - that's not the one I want to harp on. This particular mailing is for their new campaign to make same-sex marriage legal in Oregon. Not Domestic Partnerships and not Civil Unions - but truly equal "Marriage". All well and good and I am totally on board with working towards that goal. My problem with their campaign literature is the manner in which they are wording it. One simple sentence states this about marriage, "...it does give couples who want to make a lifetime commitment to each other and be a family the ability to do so." Whoa! Read that again please.
Have you caught on to my gripe? State licensed marriages do not hold the key to lifetime commitment and family. (Reference my Newt Gingrich posts,) My little household has formed a family that is committed to each other even without marriage. We want to have the equal marriage for many reasons - but it is not a precursor for confirming our commitment to each other or our ability to be a family.
Come on BRO - stop muddying the waters. People make their own families and commitments - without the state's help. Marriage gives those families rights and responsibilities. Let's not confuse the issue.
A mailing came recently that seemed tame at first glance - but it's always those second glances that get me to thinking. It's from Basic Rights Oregon (BRO) which is a statewide organization that works toward advancing equal rights for us gay folk here in our fine state. I think they actually use the term "Gay Rights" but I've never been comfortable with that term myself because I want "Equal" rights to the hetero population and using the other term just makes it sound like we want something special - which we don't. No big whoop though - just a little quirk that I have.
Anyway...kind of went off on a tangent there and although this post involves a tangent - that's not the one I want to harp on. This particular mailing is for their new campaign to make same-sex marriage legal in Oregon. Not Domestic Partnerships and not Civil Unions - but truly equal "Marriage". All well and good and I am totally on board with working towards that goal. My problem with their campaign literature is the manner in which they are wording it. One simple sentence states this about marriage, "...it does give couples who want to make a lifetime commitment to each other and be a family the ability to do so." Whoa! Read that again please.
Have you caught on to my gripe? State licensed marriages do not hold the key to lifetime commitment and family. (Reference my Newt Gingrich posts,) My little household has formed a family that is committed to each other even without marriage. We want to have the equal marriage for many reasons - but it is not a precursor for confirming our commitment to each other or our ability to be a family.
Come on BRO - stop muddying the waters. People make their own families and commitments - without the state's help. Marriage gives those families rights and responsibilities. Let's not confuse the issue.
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
A couple of rants...
Run Newt Run!
Please do everything you can to encourage Newt Gingrich to run for President. I want him to be asked this question every day of his campaign.
"Since you fooled around on your first two wives and are now on your third marriage, do you think you should be legally allowed to get married a fourth time?" (since marriage is so sacred and all)
I'm sure you've read the story today about the NPR executive commenting on Tea Partiers being racist, etc... Stupid thing for her to say. I'm not saying what she said was incorrect - but come on lady - you have to know you can't get away with saying it in your position. She resigns and the calls for NPR Federal funding to be stopped grow louder. I love my NPR but what very few of the gripes are addressing is that NPR's Federal dollars account for only 2% of their operating budget. Yes - 2% - not even 20%. I just wish that people complaining about this would use actual facts when discussing it.
The federal dollars they receive are generally in the form of grants from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting - which received $420,000,000 from the federal government in FY 2010. That's a big chunk of money and is a legitimate budget expenditure that should at least be allowed to be discussed when talking where to cut money in the Federal budget. I'm sure they do great work - but come on - $420 million dollars? They could take a cut of some sort. How about starting with the grants to NPR?
Please do everything you can to encourage Newt Gingrich to run for President. I want him to be asked this question every day of his campaign.
"Since you fooled around on your first two wives and are now on your third marriage, do you think you should be legally allowed to get married a fourth time?" (since marriage is so sacred and all)
I'm sure you've read the story today about the NPR executive commenting on Tea Partiers being racist, etc... Stupid thing for her to say. I'm not saying what she said was incorrect - but come on lady - you have to know you can't get away with saying it in your position. She resigns and the calls for NPR Federal funding to be stopped grow louder. I love my NPR but what very few of the gripes are addressing is that NPR's Federal dollars account for only 2% of their operating budget. Yes - 2% - not even 20%. I just wish that people complaining about this would use actual facts when discussing it.
The federal dollars they receive are generally in the form of grants from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting - which received $420,000,000 from the federal government in FY 2010. That's a big chunk of money and is a legitimate budget expenditure that should at least be allowed to be discussed when talking where to cut money in the Federal budget. I'm sure they do great work - but come on - $420 million dollars? They could take a cut of some sort. How about starting with the grants to NPR?
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