Another blog.
Yes, folks. In an internet that is clogged with blogs, microblogs, tweets, and twats the last thing we need is yet, another blog. I get that. I feel that. I understand that more than you could possibly know. I'm someone who has become to loath the ever increasing level of "honesty" (note quotes) that is going on in such a public manner. I hate Facebook more than anything. Yes, I use it...but I hate it. Why? Because I feel compelled to - hence the hate.
My family goes down to Lake Powell every year which is in the remote southeast corner of Utah. Check it out it is beautiful. Sure, it has its controversies as to whether or not it should exist, and yes, I can see/agree with many of the statements - but nonetheless it is a family vacation that we have take nearly every year for as long as I can remember. But I digress. What I have always loved about Lake Powell is that it is a week where I cannot check my email. I cannot blog. I cannot post on Facebook. I am DISCONNECTED with the world. Pure bliss. Now as cell signals have become more prolific the world of technology has crept on the quiet world of Lake Powell. I remember the first year we had got a working TV. It was controversial to say the least. Most of us shunned it - some of us loved it. Cell signals are becoming stronger and in the main channel of the lake and at the dock you can check in with home. That alone isn't bad, but what IS bad, is the expectation that you should be checking in - because you can.
I digress again. Back to the point. Despite the hatred I am growing for these newer and newer invasive technologies I am going to use it. I am going to do my best to use it to spread what I see to be the most blatant and discriminatory hypocrisy that resides in our society today. As a gay man who lives with his partner of over 11 years. As a gay man who has a son who we adopted together. As a gay man who is as boring and normal as possible I become stunned over and over again at the anti-gay movement that still exists in this country and particularly in my state - the great state of Utah. This movement bemoans gays as people that are "unnatural" - that gays are innately unable to live normal lives. To get married. To have children. To raise responsible children. They believe that gays are people who are innately "less than" their straight counterparts who are innately superior to them. These statements lead to laws which single out gays as people who can't marry, can't adopt children, or other things that straights are allowed to do or have, such as legal protections and equality.
Well, being one who thinks I have to say that stereotypes are meant to be broken because a stereotype is by definition - wrong. But since these people live in a world of extremes this blog is going to be dedicated to combating their believe of innate superiority of one gender preference over the other.
Example: I believe it was last year when a woman in Ogden, Utah who had divorced the father of her child. They lived separately, she in Utah and him somewhere on the East Coast. For the summer their son came to live with mom in Utah. During that time mom had discovered a new man in her life. They decided to get married. Sweet, huh? Well behinds the wonderful scenes of matrimony their son, while visiting for the summer, died - starving to death, beaten, killed, by the purposeful abuse and neglect of his mother and his mothers soon to be husband. In fact, it is believed he died while mom and boyfriend were getting married at city hall. So religious right who believe that gay's are innately inferior and that straights are innately superior. There is bullet hole number one in your theory. But....it's okay because they're straight.
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700032192/History-of-abuse-emerges-in-Ethan-Stacy-case.html
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-20004890-504083.html
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-20004822-504083.html
http://www.abc4.com/news/local/story/Police-Ethan-Stacy-beaten-to-death/1Xdk6laR4k2_Ku_s5eYi4A.cspx
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