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May 25

Two bears from the burbs

Hah, in your face every major religion in Australia. Last night 60 Minutes had a great piece on two Melbourne bears who are the first gay couple in the country to have children via commercial surrogacy. Earlier this month they became fathers to twin girls. It all came at a hefty price; they paid a total of $40,000 for their sperm to be inserted in a donor egg, then implanted into an unrelated woman in India. Surrogacy like this is currently illegal in Australia.

Unfortunately Channel 9 haven’t put the video up, but you can read a transcript of the story on their site. Looking from the most cynical perspective, current affair stories like these are great at helping dispel the myth that same sex couples are too promiscuous and too unstable to care for kids in the long term. You can tell these guys really are committed to their new family. It only reiterates my feelings that if drunk hetero bogans can have a sloppy one nighter, end up with a mistake foetus and carry it to full term all the while feeling it’s a burden, same sex couples who really will care for their kids should have the right to conceive.

Some interesting comments from Gautum Allahbadia, the doctor who oversaw the surrogacy (and also pinged on my gaydar).

I believe every human being has a right to procreate and as long as I’m practising medicine within the purview of Indian law I would offer this service to anybody

Liz Hayes also asked a Muslim woman, who had previously been a surrogate, how she’d feel if her baby went to a gay couple:

I would rather do it for a couple who’s really looking for children

It’s going to take a while to change attitudes like these, in both India and Australia.

The gay agenda Tags: bears, gay families, gay marriage, gay news, gay rights, health, politics

May 24

Promiscuous ATM

Credit to Christopher M for this photo. This is the message the ATM in Connections Nightclub was displaying all weekend. Many people remain unaware that you can contract gonorrhoea and chlamydia in your throat. Looks like a scene boy has been inserting himself inside the cash chute.

Out and about Tags: connections, health, sex, stupid, the scene

May 24

Religion is confusing

Political advertisements in the US are so ridiculous I like to watch them and imagine the type of backlash they’d get if they were played on Australian television. Take for example this pile of garbage from Nation For Marriage:

After watching this video I’m very glad that schools, universities and the internet don’t teach kids new ways of thinking… phft! It only leads to increased confusion when the kids go home and their fundamentalist parents scar them with the death, destruction and incest of The Old Testament. What is more confusing… Two people loving each other and getting married as a symbol of their love, or a virgin giving birth?

These children were only confused after the ranty voiceover started talking, so kids, to clear things up here are the answers you seek:

Boy #1: If grandpa was a girl, he would have gone through a lot of stress following the gender reassignment surgery, please be extra nice to her.
Ranga girl: Hell yes giiiiirrrl! I like your attitude.
Boy #2: What the bible doesn’t say is that Adam actually was ‘Anna’, using a very primitive strap on.
Boy #1 again: If your dad married a man, you wouldn’t exist right now. Try not to think about it too much.
Confused boy: If you feel you are bi-curious, there are many resources available at the Freedom Centre.

The gay agenda Tags: freedom of speech, gay community, gay marriage, gay rights, health, politics, religion, stupid

May 5

lesbians are teaching toddlers how to dooo eeeeeiitt

Well, according to this moronic drivel from News Limited.

A BOOK which teaches children about lesbian mums getting pregnant using sperm donors is being pitched at kids as young as two.

The controversial publication, Where Did I Really Come From?, also features a drawing of two gay men holding a baby in a chapter about surrogacy.

I hate it when gay men hold babies! It’s so unsettling and offensive. And so it sexting! If your teenage daughter sexts some one it is guaranteed she will become a lesbian. Spread the moral outrage people!

News Limited’s office seems to have a dedicated phone line straight through to Family First / Focus On The Family / every religious group’s public relations department, because they publish trash like this every time a family group feels they need to irritate the public. The article calls the item in question a “sex instruction book aimed at toddlers”, which is sensationalism at its best.

“It devalues the traditional family unit and at the very least desensitises us,” Focus On The Family spokeswoman Deb Sorensen said yesterday.

Hate to break your belief system there Deb, but the traditional family unit doesn’t actually exist, and hasn’t for a very long time. The issue here is choice: if you want to show this book to your child (the recommended age on the book is two - twelve) then you do that. If you don’t, you don’t. Just don’t smother your beliefs over everyone else’s face. Your lack of tolerance suffocates us.

If you’re allowed to be producing crap like ‘Preventing Homosexuality’ then us heathens should be able to publish our ‘Where Did I Really Come From?’ book. kthx.

Well, now that I got that little tantrum out of me, there was an interesting news story today about a girl in Melbourne who has been allowed to have his breasts removed because he is more comfortable being a boy. He’s been given the androgynous pseudonym of ‘Alex’ because Alex is still underage.

Without knowing too much about the situation, it does seem the Family Court is doing the right thing for Alex’s welfare. If you’re feeling newsey have a read. The Age can’t seem work out which gender preposition to use - it’s almost like they’ve done it on purpose.

Justice Bryant said having breasts constrained Alex socially. She had to avoid being hugged by friends, could not go to the beach and had to wear binding. “So it was quite an impediment to his social development, which everyone thought was very important.”

The gay agenda Tags: freedom of speech, gay news, gay rights, health, religion, stupid, trans

April 29

Full-blown idiocy

I’m going on an overseas holiday at the end of the month, and have been shopping around for travel insurance. If you’ve ever wandered through an insurance PDS it’s very heavy reading. However the policy I’m going with has a very prominent medical exclusion:

I thought ‘full-blown AIDS’ was just a joke from Family Guy, not a real term. Honestly, who underwrote this thing? What is the difference between AIDS and ‘full-blown AIDS’? I’m sorry, but some douche who doesn’t understand the difference between HIV and AIDS underwrote this PDS.

That’s my rant. But seriously.

Random Tags: health, hiv, sex

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