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A Gay Father's Advice Regarding Anti-Gay Store Owners: Ignore the Tantrums
A Gay Father's Advice Regarding Anti-Gay Store Owners: Ignore the Tantrums
When my daughters were toddlers they would sometimes throw tantrums. Maybe they were tired or hungry or simply stressed about something like a new school or moving into a new home. Like most parents, we began to recognize the warning signs and acted accordingly, ignoring the bad behavior and never giving in to their demands. We did not give them what they were looking for, which was attention for their bad behavior. It occurred to me recently that we have a population of toddlers who are stressed about moving into a new home and they are acting out, but we are giving them exactly what they want, attention.
Consider the pizza shop owner in Indiana and the owner of the garage in Michigan.
“I won’t serve gays and you can’t make me!”
That is what they are saying. Is it really because it is against their religion? Maybe, but how about the divorced patrons, the lazy customers, the gluttonous shoppers, aren’t they all sinners in their eyes? Of course they are, but you can’t reason with a toddler, nor should you. They are afraid of something new or frustrated because they can’t comprehend and the best tact to take when a toddler is throwing a tantrum is to ignore the bad behavior and praise the good, but we are doing the opposite.
When the pizza shop owner contacts the news and says she won’t make a pizza for a gay wedding and there is not a thing you can do to make her, we splash it across headlines and share it on Facebook and social media. A gofundme page gets created and she gets a reward. We’re doing this all wrong, people. It’s time to ignore the bad and praise the good.
We’re asking people to tie their own shoes, but they don’t have the necessary skills to perform this task and when they scream and shout because they are frustrated, we’re giving in. We need to teach them how to be a grown up and the best way to do that is by showing them what well behaving adults act like. We should be highlighting and praising the Mom and Pop shops that do tie their own shoes and accept all customers. Where are the stories about the bakeries with heterosexual owners making cakes for the gay couple and the straight grandfather taking photographs at a lesbian couple’s wedding?
I’m not saying that we shouldn’t have rules. All children need and crave structure. We need to put anti-discrimination laws into place locally and nationally and make the punishment known and then we need to follow through. Because as a parent the worst thing you can do is to say you are going to do something and then not do it. Politicians are infamous for doing this and look at what a nation of spoiled, rotten children we have become.
When my oldest daughter was five, she used an ink pen to write her sister’s name on the back of seat of our minivan in an attempt to incriminate her younger sister, who was only three. Of course we knew who the real culprit was. Her younger sister couldn’t write. Many religious zealots are complaining that they are only exercising their freedom of religion when they attempt to deny service to gays and that they are now the minority who are being discriminated against. Good try, but bad execution. You are not a minority and you can still practice your religion. We are not taking anything away from you, but you are attempting to take away our rights.
It’s time to take away the pen, lay down the rules and ignore the tantrums. They always complain the loudest in the beginning. Let’s show them who the adults truly are.
William Dameron’s personal blog is The Authentic Life
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Sam Smith OK With Being Called “A Faggot” Just Not “Fat”
Sam Smith OK With Being Called “A Faggot” Just Not “Fat”
From a young age food has controlled me…When I was at school and wasn’t having a great time or when music wasn’t going very well, I would eat, eat. Eating would make me feel better. When I felt lonely, I would eat. If someone called me fat, that affects me way more than someone calling me a faggot. I think just because I’ve accepted that, if someone calls me a faggot, it’s like, I am gay and I’m proud to be gay so there’s no issues there. But if someone calls you fat, that’s something I want to change.”
– Four-time Grammy snatcher Sam Smith opens up about his body issues after dramatic weight loss.
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Les Fabian Brathwaite
Irish Pastor Says Gay Relationships Are Never 'Consensual,' Compares Homosexuality to Rape: VIDEO
Irish Pastor Says Gay Relationships Are Never 'Consensual,' Compares Homosexuality to Rape: VIDEO
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With just over four weeks to go until Ireland’s marriage equality referendum, the “no” campaigners are taking a leaf from American anti-gay activists like Scott Lively in their attempts to sway voters.
Following a failed attempt last week by a small number of religious leaders to add a “conscience clause” to the referendum, Pastor Craig Ledbetter of the Bible Baptist Church in Cork has compared homosexuality with rape and adultery.
In an interview with the Irish Examiner, Ledbetter argued that a same-sex sexual relationship can never be consensual:
“Homosexuality is wrong, just like rape and just like adultery.
“We are dealing with one party believing he is right in what he is doing, so it is not really consensual. Two people can consent to adultery or consent to rob a bank, but that doesn’t make either of those things right.
“If they want a sexual relationship they can get the blessing of the State but that should not amount to re- defining marriage which is exclusively the preserve of a man and a woman.”
Recognizing that his bizarre opinions could convince many people to vote in favor of the referendum, he also complained that there has been no serious discussion on same-sex marriage in the Irish media apart from “a few fake TV debates.”
Ledbetter has since claimed that he was misquoted.
Strange how people quote me about same sex marriage but have no idea what I actually said. Rape is sexual sin as is adultery & homosexuality
— Craig Ledbetter (@craigledbetter) April 18, 2015
Last week, Christian activists including Iona Institute mouthpiece Breda O’Brien (right) attacked former Irish President Mary McAleese for comments in support of same-sex marriage. Yesterday, O’Brien said that gay people and unmarried heterosexuals should abstain from sex in order to live a Christian life. A petition to revoke the Iona Institute’s charitable status is less than 2,000 signatures short of the required 15,000.
A March Irish Times poll found that 74 percent of the electorate intend to vote in favor of same-sex marriage.
Watch the Iona Institute’s The Case For Man/Woman Marriage video and a parody detailing “the right kind of discrimination,” AFTER THE JUMP…
Jim Redmond
www.towleroad.com/2015/04/anti-gay-irish-pastor-compares-homosexuality-with-rape-adultery-video.html
Tình yêu và sự cám dỗ(Phim ngắn LGBT) Tập 1 P1
Tình yêu và sự cám dỗ(Phim ngắn LGBT) Tập 1 P1
Nội dung phim: Duy, một chàng trai trẻ 18 tuổi muốn cưới một cô gái ngờ nghệch,cô bạn thân thuở bé .Nhưng chàng trai ấy đành bất lực bỏ đi không lời…
www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0HCbA2p6ng&feature=youtube_gdata
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Op-ed: New Jersey's Most Antigay Teacher Shouldn't Have Her Job
Op-ed: New Jersey's Most Antigay Teacher Shouldn't Have Her Job
Scott Lyons lived through Patricia Jannuzzi, Immaculata High School’s notoriously homophobic teacher, and he doesn’t want one more LGBT student to endure the same lesson.
Scott Lyons
www.advocate.com/commentary/2015/04/20/op-ed-new-jerseys-most-antigay-teacher-shouldnt-have-her-job
12 Mother's Day Cards For Cool Moms, Not Regular Moms
12 Mother's Day Cards For Cool Moms, Not Regular Moms
Mother’s Day is coming. Back away from the corny Hallmark cards.
For everyone celebrating the mothers (and/or mother figures) in their life this year, we’ve got your back. Here’s a selection of funny, cute and cheeky cards for any mom with a sense of humor. Because who wants rhyming prose when you could have pug puns?
Here are 12 funny Mother’s Day cards we love:
1. An apology for the rough times:
“This Mother’s Day, I Would Like To Apologize For..”
2. An appreciation of the important skills she taught you:
“Thanks for teaching me how to use a big-girl potty.”
3. A serious understatement:
“I suppose you’re a reasonable mother”
4. An acknowledgement of what she just can’t say:
“I love how we don’t have to say out loud that I’m your favorite child.”
5. A much-needed thank-you:
“Thanks for not psychologically damaging me.”
6. An admission she’s been waiting to hear:
“You were right about everything.”
7. A tribute to “Mean Girls:”
“You’re a cool mom.”
8. A nod to all the roles she plays:
“My cheapest therapist.”
9. A punny endearment:
“Nothing beets you.”
10. A “Gilmore Girls” reference:
“You’re the Lorelai to my Rory.”
11. A “Puggin'” cute card:
“I puggin’ love you.”
12. A congratulatory note:
“Great job Mom, I turned out awesome”
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'Beer Pong Rapist' Sentenced To 150 Years In Prison For Sexually Assaulting Numerous Male Victims: VIDEO
'Beer Pong Rapist' Sentenced To 150 Years In Prison For Sexually Assaulting Numerous Male Victims: VIDEO
A Maryland man was sentenced to 150 years in prison on Wednesday after he was found guilty earlier this year on 11 counts of second- and third-degree sexual offenses reports the AP. Prosecutors say 40-year-old Joey Poindexter, dubbed the “Beer Pong Rapist,” who met his victims in beer pong tournaments and bars, was convicted of assaulting five men, but prosecutors believe there are at least two dozen more unidentified victims after police found that Poindexter recorded and took dozens of photos on his phone of himself assaulting several unconscious, incoherent men; prosecutors believe that Poindexter assaulted an additional 30 men. Ramon Korionoff of the Montgomery County State Attorney’s Office stated the series of rapes began in 2011 and expressed disgust with Poindexter’s actions.
Said Korionoff:
“Completely heinous and terrible sexual assaults. He did this knowing full well that he was taking advantage of people that were intoxicated.”
Other reports state that the series of assaults may have occurred over the span of the last 10 years. Surveillance video from one bar in College Park, Md. shows Poindexter, a property appraiser, buying a Long Island Iced Tea for one of his victims, which the victim consumed, with Poindexter escorting the drugged victim outside. The victim awoke the next morning in Poindexter’s home to find himself wearing a pair of Poindexter’s shorts and found his clothes in a pile next to him on the floor. The victim, who had no memory of the previous evening, approached police with the suspicion that he was sexually assaulted. The victim questioned Poindexter, while wearing a police wire, about the night’s events with Poindexter responding, “If it makes you feel any better, I don’t have any (expletive) AIDS, if anything did happen.”
Additional victims later came forward after investigators issued a public appeal for the case; some victims had no inclination they had even been assaulted until they were shown photo and video evidence. Poindexter’s lawyer says her client intends on appealing the 150-year sentence.
Watch CBS Baltimore’s coverage of the sentencing, including a statement from Poindexter’s lawyer, AFTER THE JUMP...
Anthony Costello
