Vote NO on Prop 8 - For the Children

Look my son in the face and tell him he can't marry or have a family.

Four years ago my husband and I adopted a nine-year-old boy. He'd been taken from his biological family when he was three and shuttled through six different foster homes in six years.

The three of us have worked very hard to create our family. Our son has added to our lives in ways we could never have imagined. We love him very much.

This year our son, who is now thirteen, came out to us. Our son is gay. We are fine with this.

The amazing thing about our boy is that he goes to school every day and lives his life true to himself. He's a happy child. He writes poetry. He skips. He's a track star. He excels at algebra. He loves the Stylistics. He has a blinding smile. Most of the kids at his school love him. But some of the boys call him "faggot." Yesterday our usually sunny boy, all five feet four inches of him, came home staring at the ground, visibly upset. Some of the boys at school were taunting him with cries of Yes on 8, the California proposition aimed at eliminating the right to marry for those who want to marry another of the same gender. The boys were punished by the school, but the damage was done.

Who are these followers of Jesus Christ who would tell my son, taken from his family at three, and homeless until he was nine, that he cannot marry and have a family of his own?

Why? What is the defect that renders our son a second class citizen without the rights to love another fully and openly, with the same privileges and protections afforded to others?

Jesus spoke in no uncertain terms about these pious people in Matthew 23.

For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers.

But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.
Matthew 23:4, 13-15 KJV

Please vote against Prop 8. Prop 8 does not protect children. Proposition 8 crushes children. It tells some of our children that they are not as good as other children, that they don't deserve marriage and family.

Vote NO on Prop 8

- No on Prop 8 | Prop 8 is Discrimination

VOTE!

Too funny.

"Jesus People Pray That False Idol Will Save God's Economy"

From Wonkette:

Did you know that some Christian dingbat has dubbed today the "Day of Prayer for the World's Economies?" Well here they are, at the Wall Street bull statue thing, praying to Jesus for money. The dingbat has explained, "We are going to intercede at the site of the statue of the bull on Wall Street to ask God to begin a shift from the bull and bear markets to what we feel will be the 'Lion's Market,' or God's control over the economic systems." Don't they know that God taking over the economic systems would be SOCIALISM from SPACE? Also: God will be very mad that they are worshiping a bronze idol here, since his second commandment PROHIBITS THAT, duh? Thanky you Wonkette operative "Dan the Man" for the sexy photo.

- Wonkette | Jesus People Pray That False Idol Will Save God's Economy

McCain and Palin Stand for Fetuses in the Heartland

From The Campaign Silo:

Professor Deana Pollard Sacks snapped this picture with her cellphone at at the corner of Fries Road and Inverness Park Way in Houston, TX.

The McCain/Palin sign features a fetus waving an American flag overtop of the word LIFE. It doesn't look like official McMerch, but it's no joke.

A little feto-American floats like an astronaut in a sanitary, high-tech, self-contained womb. The "mother" who bears this child has been airbrushed out of the photo. The fetus waves an American flag, having already been drafted into James Dobson's army of the unborn.

- The Campaign Silo | Real McCain/Palin Sign With Fetus and Flag
- Thanks | Jesus General

Tennessee Proclaims it White Ribbons Against Pornography Week

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Racism at the End of the Race

Thousands gathered in Paris, Texas, for the 1893 lynching of Henry Smith. Click on photo for details.

Ida B. Wells-Barnett, a black woman born in 1862, made her career as an anti-lynching crusader. Her words are equally valid today, especially as we are seeing, as the campaigns wind up, an increase in racist rhetoric and attacks.

From Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases, by Ida B. Wells-Barnett, 1892.

The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American. It has left the out-of-the-way places where ignorance prevails, has thrown off the mask and with this new cry stalks in broad daylight in large cities, the centers of civilization, and is encouraged by the "leading citizens" and the press.

As reported by Xeni "Hussein" Jardin II, at BoingBoing.net,

Brandon McClelland, 24, was dragged to death beneath a truck driven by two white men in Paris, Texas last month. McClelland was black. The site of his death is about 200 miles from the location where James Byrd was murdered in a similar manner ten years ago.

This happened September 16, 2008. Charles Ryan Crostley, 27, and Shannon Keith Finley, 27, have been arrested.

Vote for Barack Obama. We need a change. We need it now.

- BoingBoing.net | Black man dragged to death 200 miles from site of Byrd murder 10 years ago.
- CBS11TV.com | Possible Hate Crime Dragging In Sulphur Springs
- Dallas South | Howard Witt/Chicago Tribune with more on death of Brandon McClelland in Paris Texas