Subscribe to Breaking NewsWithers: Etheridge mocks Prop 8
Let’s get the crankiness out first. The image of Melissa Etheridge’s child reading the Proposition 8 ballot and describing it as “lame” is sickeningly cute, precocious, and probably made up. With that said, Etheridge does the anti Prop 8 team proud with an essay that chronicles her life as mother, wife, and citizen.
Etheridge covers well known territory. Her decision in 1997 to adopt her children, multiple visits from a social worker, the rejection from the agency (given with regrets), a judge over-ruling the adoption agency, which allowed the singer/songwriter to “adopt [her] children within the legal system.”
Three years later in 2000 California voters decided, via Proposition 22, to define marriage as a union only between a man and a woman. But this is Melissa we are talking about. She’s not going to stopped by some ignorance. In 2003, she and her children made a family with with her partner Tammy. Yeah it was a domestic partnership but ME nails it.
“The day before the wedding Grey Davis gave same sex couples domestic partnership rights, one of his last moments as governor and we proudly hung our certificates on our wall. They were limited rights, but doggone it, it was a beginning.”
If ME leaves you cold, copy this essay and pass it around because she makes the anti-Prop 8 argument better than cranky hacks.
Margaret Somerville is a blow hard. I have read many of her rantings in the Montreal Gazette. She promotes herself as some kind of social scholar, and she whines and moans the standard “oh boo hoo, I’m so persecuted” Christian line, because she is so “picked on” by people who disagree with her and want to deny her freedom of speech. What ever.
Basically she says that same-sex marriage is a big “experiment” that we should fear and should not entertain, and that children must be raised by a man an women. Point. What she always ignores is the fact that even without legalized marriage in the US, there are loads of same-sex or non-traditional families in the US, and loads of other countries which have had civil-unions or marriage for a long time. Her logic has been proven wrong time and time again.
Who cares that she spoke to the UN. That means nothing. With the KKKristian influence of the US, aligned with other reich-wing UN members like Iran who also hate gay people, it’s no wonder they gave her audience.
If she really believed what she said, then she would lobby to ban divorce and license parenting. And she doesn’t. In my book she’s just another big fat phony sexually-repressed homophobe with an agenda of her own.
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
I like the 1st Amendment. Every part of it seems to be related to discussion of Proposition 8.
The 1st amendment guarantees my right to an opinion. The strongest differences of opinion over issues are usually questions of deciding “greater good”.
I am neither lesbian nor gay, but if my opinion affects my neighbor, I should think about it seriously. After much thought, my view is most similar to the one articulated here:
http://www.marriageinstitute.ca/images/somerville.pdf
It contains non-religious(not that there’s anything wrong with that) arguments written by Margaret Somerville, an ethicist who has advised The United Nations.
I will vote Yes on Proposition 8 and if you will read and think about Ms. Somerville’s ideas, maybe you will too.
Someday this will never be an issue again…
one can only hope that your 9 year old son’s generation will all think like him. Because it is very lame.
Lame James…that’s a damn shame.
Not made up—-my kid’s been spouting his political opinions since shortly after he could read and he’s 17 now. And ‘lame’ is definitely a kid word. And applicable in this case. Rock on Beckett.
Ohhh No You Didn’t James!
Man, you got some balls there my man. You are gonna get all the Lesbians up in a tizzy. I learned at an early age that you can not make comments on Etheridge or the Indigo Girls. If you do, the tribe will circle their U-Hauls and come and get ya.
Melissa is all about speaking the truth, and if she said her son read and commented on the prop.8, it’s a true statement, and lame of you to claim otherwise!
Julie,
No I don’t spend anytime around children. Don’t like them very much. Also I have this thing about kids spouting off on politics.
As for being “superfically critical” about your “ex”, we are going to have to agree to disagree. I did say people should pass her essay around, no?
Be well.
Sincerely,
James
James, you must not spend much time with 9 year old boys. Our son indeed is old enough to be aware and have an opinion of Prop. 8.
I am not sure why that -true- story makes you ‘cranky’, and I wonder why you felt the need to be so superficially critical about my ex and her inspiring essay.
You are being totally lame, James.