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This Dad Wins The Internet

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I’m a HUGE equal rights activist. Obviously, I want equal rights for women but it doesn’t just stop there, I think all human beings deserve equal rights. If you are alive you deserve certain unalienable rights. Marriage equality and gay rights are very near and dear to my heart. I post endlessly on my social media accounts about it. I loved when Buzzfeed posted all the pictures from the first day that same-sex marriage was passed. Love is love, people. I live by that principle and when I see that principle come to life nothing makes me happier.

This story…ugh I love this. A man overheard a conversation his son was having and wrote him this letter:

In case you can’t read it is says:

Nate,

I overheard your phone conversation with Mike last night about your plans to come out to me. The only thing I need you to plan is to bring home OJ and bread after class. We are out, like you now.

I’ve known you were gay since you were six, I’ve loved you since you were born.

- Dad

P.S. Your mom and I think you and Mike make a cute couple.

 

I love that he made an “out” joke and I love that he gave him chores. A dad is a dad no matter who his son is and this letter illustrates that perfectly. Love should be unconditional I’m glad to see other people feel the same way.



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It’s Nature (Gay Penguins)

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When you hear people rallying against homosexuality they always say, “It’s not natural,” which means that it doesn’t occur in nature. And naturally, they would be wrong. Penguins have same sex relationships. I read no less than five articles about five separate gay penguins.

One that really upset me was about a couple at the Toronto Zoo. Buddy, 21, and Pedro, 10, found each other more interesting than any of the females they were supposed to mate with. The Toronto Zoo decided that something should be done about this so they separated the two and made them mate with females since Pedro and Buddy had “top notch genes”. They were successful but after the mating session the two penguins reunited. Love is love.

In China, Madrid, and Denmark, gay penguins have been trying to start families. They build a nest every season and become depressed when that nest stays empty. They’ve all tried stealing eggs from other couples. That’s how badly they want a baby. It’s like finding a young mother willing to give you the baby and when it’s born she changes her mind. However, recently all three zoos have helped these penguins “adopt” a baby.

Each were given fake eggs to make sure they could properly incubate it. Then, when other penguin couples laid multiple eggs the eggs that were discarded by the parents were given to the homosexual couple. All three couples incubated the eggs properly and are proud parents to baby penguins.

Penguins are also a species that mate for life. We’ve all seen March of the Penguins these little birdies are made of some strong stuff. They face a harsh life, even harder mating rituals, harsh weather, and even though they are sometimes hundreds of miles away from their mates when the season comes and they all show up they find each other again.

These homosexual couples spent up to six years waiting for an egg. Every year they built that nest, every year it stayed empty, and the next year they built it again. How cool is it that this year it was full?

I think we can all learn a lesson from these little penguins. Never give up. Never stop trying. Never let anyone tell you, you can’t be with the person you love, you can’t have your heart’s desires that you’re not good enough or you’re not supposed to be this way or that way. You are not less than the other penguins, your time will come.



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Gay Student Gets Vandalized Car Fixed Gratis

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I’m a girl. I’m a skinny, not completely hideous, girl. I have been subjected to horrible slurs, discrimination, and shady situations. I have been told I’m not smart, not worth anything unless I’m lying down, and that I should just “sit there and look pretty.” I’ve lost male friends because their girlfriends didn’t want them around me because they didn’t “understand” how we could just “be friends.” I know what it feels like to be regulated to one thing, and I know what it feels like to have people judge you and be threatened by you and wish you ill will because of one thing. Due to these experiences, I have a pretty hard time when people tell me I’m pretty. I always correct them with “I’m smart.” I just don’t want to be one thing. And I don’t want that one thing to take anything else away from me. Maybe that’s why I feel so strongly and work so hard for equal rights. It’s why I’m a feminist and it’s why I strongly support equality for all.

There’s a joke in my family that I can’t process normal human emotions. I give all my love and attention to animals and “the underdogs.” If I see a kid with glasses and an inhaler I’ll immediately well up—no matter what the situation. I don’t like bullies and I don’t stand by and watch it happen. I can’t. I can’t understand dehumanizing someone—mainly because I’ve felt it and I’d never wish that on anyone. So when a story like the one I’m about to tell you comes around, I tend to get really involved.

Jordan Addison is a college student in Virginia. He has a long history of being bullied, and has been assaulted quite often for being gay. Addison’s car has been vandalized four times and covered in gay slurs and hate speech each and every time. “The first time, there were some homophobic slurs keyed into the side of it. Then the second time I had die keyed into it,” said Addison.

When word got out about this latest assault on Addison, a local repair shop took action. The employees at Quality Auto Paint and Body in Roanoke asked 10 other businesses to donate and help them repair Addison’s car for free. Richard Henegar Jr., the manager of the repair shop, headed the project. “Once I saw the vandalism that was done to it, I said ‘That’s uncalled for. We’re gonna fix your car’. That’s the least we can do,” said Henegar.

The employees put in over 100 hours of work on the car. They put on new tires, a new paint job, tinted windows, a security system, and a new stereo. Altogether the car makeover came to over $10,000, which was all taken care of by the charity of other businesses and Quality Auto Paint and Body themselves. To see people coming together and standing up for what’s right and embracing someone … it really makes you stop and think.

I took this story to mean that change is possible, and this story made me feel like we’re moving in the right direction. We’re winning the fight, or at least starting to take an edge over on the other side, and that’s encouraging, if you ask me.



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Being Brad Pitt’s Mom Means You Can’t Have an Opinion

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Before joining forces with Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt was known primarily for being hot, an endeavor he was remarkably good at.  He has moved from eye candy to political awareness, though, and he has shown to be even better at this undertaking.  Whether giving time and money to victims of Hurricane Katrina or raising awareness about issues such as same-sex marriage, Pitt is a guy that’s used his popularity to get more than laid.

But does that mean that his entire family agrees with him?  Apparently not …

From Yahoo News:

In a letter to her hometown paper, the Springfield (Mo.) News-Leader, Jane Pitt writes that Christians, like herself, should not refuse to vote for Mitt Romney just because he is a Mormon. The published response to an earlier opinion in the paper describes President Barack Obama’s opponent for president as “a family man with high morals, business experience, who is against abortion, and shares Christian conviction concerning homosexuality.”

What I don’t understand, though, is why this is news.

My mother was raised in an extremely right-wing family.  As she grew into adulthood (at the height of the sixties, I might add), she developed her own ideas and opinions, becoming quite liberal.  There were never any turkey-throwing incidents at Thanksgiving over politics or anything, and I had no clue how different her views were from the rest of her side of the family until I was nearly an …

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