You would think the gaystopo would take the day off. Make no mistake this is a deliberate thumb in the eye to Christians who hold today holy.
Well, Merry Christmas.
Posted on 12/25/2015 10:51:41 AM PST by Drango
Octavius Humphries' and Seth Smiley's story began on Christmas Eve 2010.
They'd met online and, despite a 19-year age difference, agreed to a first date on Christmas Eve.
Octavius describes it as an "amazing" first date.
And then Seth told him his mother was expecting the two of them for Christmas dinner. "I just thought, nobody really should be alone on Christmas," Seth says.
"Me being black and you being white and the age difference," Octavius says, "I thought that this was just going to be a recipe for disaster."
But Octavius instantly lit up the house, Carole remembers. "And I felt, 'Maybe this is Mr. Right,' " she says. "And I think that I kissed you."
"You didn't just kiss him," Seth says. "You kissed him on the lips."
"As shocking as it was I knew I was home," Octavius says. "When I was 22, I lost my father, and two years following that my mother passed away. And so Christmas and the holidays was just a constant reminder that they were missing. But when I met you and you invited me into your home it gave me that sense of family again instantly."
Seth, Octavius and their infant son, Julian, will celebrate their first Christmas together this year.i Seth, Octavius and their infant son, Julian, will celebrate their first Christmas together this year. Courtesy of the Smiley-Humphries family At Christmas three years later, Octavius proposed to Seth.
"We're sitting there at dinner. I remember starting with, 'I just want to share with you how special this is for me,' " Octavius says. "Everyone stopped eating because they were hip to what was about to happen. Except for Seth."
"I was like, 'Oh my God, here we go again.' Cause you're such an emotional person. I was like, 'Ah jeez, I gotta listen to this,' " Seth says.
Seth had no idea, Octavius says, and he "just continued shoveling food down his throat."
Then he realized it was a proposal.
"I was so happy," Carole says. "It was awesome."
"Having come out in 1983 in Atlanta, Georgia," Seth says. "[I] always wanted to get married, always wanted to have a family. But today, it's a reality with you."
Produced for Morning Edition by John White.
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You would think the gaystopo would take the day off. Make no mistake this is a deliberate thumb in the eye to Christians who hold today holy.
Well, Merry Christmas.
Presumably named for Julian the Apostate.
Faggots forever! Gross.
Just damn....of all the feel-good Christmas stories, we have to be treated to a bunch of PC BS from NPR. Sheesh.....can’t you guys just take a damned day off once in a while?
Poor kid.
Happy Festivus from Seth and Octavius...
and tax-payer funded NPR.
On tv a couple days ago was a female soldier sending Christmas wishes to her wife and the talking heads had to make gushy comments.
Chickenhawk + prey...
Well....we all must know by now it’s only the black, Hispanic, gay, transgendered, politically objecting, and questioning soldiers that matter. /s
Freak show weirdness — the new “holiday spirit”
Only on NPR or anywhere else in the liberal media would you find such a story. They have forever changed the morality of a once great nation. I personally was gagging on this story. But who gives a crap what an old white guy thinks. We are now irrelevant in the media. We are a nation unto ourselves and the only hope for restoration of our country.
Merry Christmas FReepers.
All I’ll add is that there is not surprisingly no mention of where their child came from. Apparently the article suggests to NPR readers that this is an insignificant detail which is impolite and discriminatory to bring up. Consequently the underlying impression meant to be left in people’s minds is that the child was conceived the natural way.
Perverts.
NPR (taxpayer money) is used to promote the most vile, evil agitprop (faith) (for the children) and to collapse Western Civilization for the paganism/satanism of the evil sodomites in Hollywood who hold their orgies with the children (literally drug them/Corey Feldmen) and the elite Kissingeer sodomites who worship satan and practice boy sacrifice to their Owl-Goat god/Ba’al at the Bohemian Grove.
They know that vice promotes slavery and tribal mindsets (destroys Reason and the US Constitution/Truth/God/Natural Laws (foundation of the US Constitution and Justice (virtue) System).
It is unconstitutional to promote such lies and vile use of the human body-—it is promoting Satanism and paganism (a religion with public money).
If NPR weren’t reporting a gay story they would be silent. We need to cut off their funding. Being a non profit getting air space is enough.
Homosexual crap on Christmas. Nice.
omfg i swear i did not expect THIS after reading the first sentence...I mean I knew NPR had some angle but this was beyond the outer limits ...
Indeed. We don’t need a federally funded agenda machine of any stripe and there is no constitutional authority for the fedgov to force us to pay for one.
NPR loves to claim that only 16% of its finances come directly from government. Good. They should be able to adjust fairly easily when we take that away.
They also claim to get 13% of their budget from colleges and universities. That strikes me as a shell game.
Sad.
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