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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.
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.”
April 20
News bites
The St Mary’s Catholic Community in South Brisbane today left their resident church building after being excommunicated by the Brisbane Archbishop. St Mary’s Parish Peter Kennedy was removed from the Roman Catholic Church for “unorthodox” views, namely supporting same sex partnerships and the right for woman to preach. To add salt to the nine inch nail wounds, the Roman Catholic Church said anyone who continues to follow Kennedy will be condemned by the Church.
Gosh, Roman Catholics are just the most delightful and loving bunch of people. The nice part of this story though is St Mary’s continues to push on, finding a new headquarters for its followers just down the road from the church house they were evicted from. You can download and listen to a really interesting segment on Triple J’s Monday Hack program. The story features some of the progressive Catholics in exile who still support St Marys.
Media loudmouth Perez Hilton has gone a bit ape at Miss California after she stumbled through a question about gay marriage during the Miss USA Pageant. As the video above shows she basically doesn’t agree with it. Afterward Perez had a big video blog rant calling the contestant a “dumb bitch”.
This is where things get a bit cloudy: he clarifies she is dumb because she didn’t answer the question politically (ie. sitting on the fence like a good Barbie Doll should do), not because of her actual views. Fair enough, and fair enough that she doesn’t believe in gay marriage. I don’t know if everyone on the extreme left and right wing are going to see it that way though. The righties will use it as a pin up for freedom of speech while the lefties will call foul for public homophobic. Funnily enough, my article in next month’s WAX Magazine looks at this very topic. Way to go, shameless self promotion!
Even if you’re not politically minded have a watch of the video - you can have some real fun pinpointing the exact moment when her Barbie Doll smile starts to crack and she thinks “oh, shiiiit”.
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