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Blind Rage
Okay, so I have been *really* good about not posting from work for months, but this rather pushed me over the edge.
At lunch, I pulled up the local news site. I read an article about the upcoming fight on a gay marriage amendment and then made the mistake of reading the comments. Dear sweet deity of your choice, someone stop me from ever doing this again as it will always end with me far too angry to function.
The main issue in the comments is whether this is a legal or religious issue and shouldn’t this maybe be resolved with laws for “unions” and religious rules for “marriages” which has a valid point. And then some idiot comes up with this:
"Just take the poor 11 year old boy that now thinks he needs a sex operation- this kid is going to end up severely depressed or committing suicide. All because his two “mommies” are so warped in their thinking that they could handle having children. If you can’t normally have children between 2 particular types of people then you shouldn’t be having any in your family. It goes against any natural order of things – animals don’t do it and they have very little ability to think like we do. It’s not normal."
Insert the blind rage at the blind hate here. Just read the last two sentences of that. This comment appears to strongly imply that my partner and I are not only not normal, but against the natural order of things. So it is unnatural for two people who love each other to raise children in a loving home and care for them and provide for them and try to teach them such things as acceptance and to treat every person with a basic common level of decency and respect?
I am stopping here so that I do not go off completely, especially when I still have another three hours worth of work to finish up.
And yes, I should have known better than to read the comments, especially considering this is the same site that threw a hissy fit over the 35W Bridge being lit in rainbow colors for Pride… right up until it was explained any group can request such changes so long as they go through the proper channels and so it was lit up pink for the Susan Komen Ride just last month.
At lunch, I pulled up the local news site. I read an article about the upcoming fight on a gay marriage amendment and then made the mistake of reading the comments. Dear sweet deity of your choice, someone stop me from ever doing this again as it will always end with me far too angry to function.
The main issue in the comments is whether this is a legal or religious issue and shouldn’t this maybe be resolved with laws for “unions” and religious rules for “marriages” which has a valid point. And then some idiot comes up with this:
"Just take the poor 11 year old boy that now thinks he needs a sex operation- this kid is going to end up severely depressed or committing suicide. All because his two “mommies” are so warped in their thinking that they could handle having children. If you can’t normally have children between 2 particular types of people then you shouldn’t be having any in your family. It goes against any natural order of things – animals don’t do it and they have very little ability to think like we do. It’s not normal."
Insert the blind rage at the blind hate here. Just read the last two sentences of that. This comment appears to strongly imply that my partner and I are not only not normal, but against the natural order of things. So it is unnatural for two people who love each other to raise children in a loving home and care for them and provide for them and try to teach them such things as acceptance and to treat every person with a basic common level of decency and respect?
I am stopping here so that I do not go off completely, especially when I still have another three hours worth of work to finish up.
And yes, I should have known better than to read the comments, especially considering this is the same site that threw a hissy fit over the 35W Bridge being lit in rainbow colors for Pride… right up until it was explained any group can request such changes so long as they go through the proper channels and so it was lit up pink for the Susan Komen Ride just last month.