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POPSProphetic Penguins? Ecclesioleft gets all biblical on the penguin story and makes an interesting point about what could be learned from their story: "This is a teaching moment for us: how can we care for one another? ... I think we all ought to be more concerned about what we and our children aren't learning when we skip out on stories about love and support." Of course, to get there you have to make room for the notions that love and support happen in same-sex couples, that it's a good thing, and that it's something that should be encouraged because it benefits the greater good when that caring is extended to extended family, as in Rich's story. You'd have to skip out on stories of love and support that threatend to undermine the way you think the world must operate.
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POPSFear of Gay Penguin Parents Zero Boss has a post about parents in panic over a book about gay penguins . Maybe it's because we have bought the book for Parker, or maybe it's because now that we're out in the 'burbs, we spend more time with heterosexual parents than with other gay parents, but these things always strike me as kind of, well, dumb. Look. Your kid knows that families like ours exist. If he goes to school with my kid, then eventually he's going to figure out that my kid has a Daddy and a Papa; either the next time we take Parker to a birthday party, or show up to pick him up one evening. He'll play with my kid, maybe ride the bus with him later, and probably even hang out with him. He'll know we exist, and see what we're like for himself. And he'll make up his own mind about us. And, be honest, that scares you even more than we do. doesn't it?
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POPSThe Ethics of Outing the Unethical Theantidesi makes a good point about the "fine line" one walks when outing the likes of Ted Haggard, yet I can't bring myself to be worried about more about Haggard than about the families that will be affected by the constitutional amendment he supported. Haggard took that stance from a position of privilege purchased at the cost of his honesty and integrity, from which he sought to exact an even greater price from others like himself, but who had chosen a life of honestly and integrity that that he couldn't choose without his world imploding. The only part of his story that elicits any sympathy from me is that his world imploded anyway. But gay families in Colorado will still have to live with the consequences of the amendment he backed.
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POPSHelping Make More Ted Haggards And if the Ohio Bishop doesn't quite get the point across, how about a Methodist minister who was once married to a gay man for 15 years before the marriage fell apart, and whose able to look at her own situation and see the role religion played in creating a situation that caused her, her husband, her children, their friends and family to suffer. How is this better than creating a reality in which same-sex orientation is accepted, and same-sex couples are encouraged towards commitment and fidelity? How many fewer broken families, and hearts, would there be? Or is it easier to just keep creating people like Ted Haggard and then condemn them when they inevitably fail at denying who they are?
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POPSWaiting it Out & Changing Minds Another Christian blogger in support of gay marriage says that the trend of younger voters supporting marriage equality, and the recent increase in young people voting suggests that we could "just wait it out." After all, the over-60 voters will die off from one election to the next. But how long do we have to wait? And how do we protect our families while we're waiting? And who will stand with us while we wait.
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POPSGay Marriage to Stop Abortion In another take on "pro-life" this blogger makes an interesting argument that people who oppose abortion should naturally support gay marriage: because it will increase the number of homes (two-parent homes, mind you) willing to adopt children. It's a rational idea, and rather radical too, if you put it together with the idea of encouraging committed monogamous relationships among gays and lesbians. The next logical step? Encourage same-sex couples to have families. Of course the major problem with this is that reason will appeal to many of the people who ware anti-choice, anti-gay, and anti-equality.
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POPSHome and Family I've known about COLAGE since we first started talking about becoming parents, and I'm glad that it will be there for our kids. But reading this letter from a COLAGEr to the COLAGE community makes me even more grateful that COLAGE exists. It sounds like the kind of community I hope our kids become a part of. I can't really add anything to the letter. Just go read it, and know the kids are alright. They really are
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POPSNow That We've Got Congress... Crain does have a point. If gays & lesbians want to make progress, we're going to have to push the Democrats on "safe" (read majority supported) issues. But I think we're also going to have to push them on the marriage issues as well, with a simple message that the Democratic party supports equality. How that's accomplished may be a a matter of debate, but even Democrats who earnestly oppose same-sex marrage ought to be able to support fairness and equality. If not, why are the Democrats in the first place?
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POPSIf Not Now, When? One thing I've kept hearing from progressives on gay rights as we approached this election was "Not now," in one way or another. And the implication was that progressives had to back off on gay issues if they wanted to win in this election. Well, arguably, they've won. So now, when do we push for equal rights? How? And in the meantime, how do we protect our families while we waiting for the "right time"?
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