Posted on 06/27/2011 11:04:45 AM PDT by madprof98
My daughter and I were in Manhattan over this weekend so I could do some research at the Met. Waves of people were coming into the city for Sunday’s big gay-pride march, where they could celebrate the Empire State’s new same-sex-marriage law. We sat behind some of them on the train, three young women with a precious, excited toddler girl in tow. The very evident leader of the clan was the patriarch. Adorned as if she might be an actor portraying a hip-hop teen from Cleveland, she had her meticulous corn-rows tucked under a backwards navy-blue flat-billed ballcap, a matching wife beater revealing a mural of tats on her arms, shoulders, and back. Baggy jeans rode low, leading to her construction boots with untied laces dangling free.
She was the only one of the adult threesome that interacted with the child, mindlessly uttering reassuring words like “Daddy will be right back” or “Sit over here by Daddy.”
You see, this is one of the things that most concerns me about the legal institutionalization of genderless marriage and parenting. We are told that nothing will really change with such laws; people who really love each other will just be able to enter really meaningful, legally protected relationships.
But, to use the language of our women’s-studies scholars, such a turn “does violence” to our concept of sex difference. They would have us believe that their way of looking at the world transcends the “narrow” confines of socially constructed gender difference, but these very folks end up playing to those very confines, usually in comically stereotypical ways. Think drag queen in her everyday clothes, like our Urban Outfitters dad on the train.
And while this adorable little girl on the train got to call one of her parents “Daddy,” did she really have a daddy? Well, her DNA would prove that she does somewhere, but in reality she only has a woman playing make-believe daddy, and like make-believe games, it’s all about the world this woman has created in her mind for her own imaginary fun and games. One problem: There’s a little toddler as one of the props.
Gender does matter for marriage, the family, and society, and those trying to teach us that it doesn’t can’t help but default to the very thing they are trying to overthrow.
This is the primary fallacy of the legislation New York just passed — not in theory, but in the reality of this little girl and her “daddy” on the train at Penn Station.
Some people think that conservative behavior is subjecting your life to the whims of collectivists, neo-confederates, and assorted other reprobates. The only way such people have power over me is if give their claim to power my sanction. Such people have an inverted morality.
“I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.”
Probably because of the jerk to which it is attached.
Every lesbian I have ever known has claimed to have been raped. No exceptions in my small sample set.
It may be they were not. It may be that they were. It may be that after rape, some women carry a buried grudge. It may be that they could recover from it with the right kind of therapy.
I do know they get my pity before they get my condemnation.
I understand the need for a contract between partners so that the state recognizes their rights when it comes to children and estate. However marriage is still one woman,one man. Even the President is careful not to mess with that one
If you’re brave, go the “The Root” website. It’s a black commentary blog run by the WaPo. Hardly a bastion of conservatives. The lead writers are all gaga about gay marriage, but the average black comments are overwhelmingly negative. They find it insulting to compare homosexuality to being black. There’s one white liberal who tries to steer the black community back into thinking “correctly”. But it ain’t workin’. And it’s really pissing off more people, having “white people” telling blacks how they are expected to think.
You can’t tell these know-it-alls ANYTHING.
That’s what depresses me.
We can no longer afford our government. But if you try explaining that to them, they call you a racist, tell you Reagan deficit spent, demand tax hikes, etc.
There are too many people in the country like your friends son. The nation is going to crack apart, but they don’t care as long as they’re getting theirs.
It just sucks. :(:(:(
A lesbian is someone who wants to have her cake, and Edith, too...
Who would those people be?
Such people have an inverted morality.
That's a libtard answer. The libtard way is to redefine morality in order to fit their own personal perversions and make that the 'norm', such as homosexuality and cousin marrying.
“I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.”
Why did you post the above? You're no John Galt. Far from it. Based on your own posts here on FR you do live your life for the sake of another man, his wife (your ex) and her boyfriend. You're totally delusional, pal.
As Rush say's about libtards, "Don't listen to what they say; watch what they do." Fits you to a T.
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