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Same-Sex Couples: Just Like You and Me

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I have a story for you.

My younger daughter, my boyfriend, and I recently went away to stay with a couple for a mini-vacation weekend. We went out to breakfast, had our cook-out rained out (but it worked out just fine inside), went to a children’s museum together (my princess was the only “child” per se, but we all had a blast), went hiking with the dogs, and laughed a lot.

This couple also arranged for me to go on a special tour that basically fulfilled a lifelong dream, and they took care of my precocious, always-talking, perpetual motion third grader (I call her Belle on my personal blog, so I guess I’ll go with that here, too) so that my boyfriend could go with me. It was an experience I will never forget, and the fact that they arranged it, paid for it, and took on the fastest talker in the east meant the world to me.

While taking Belle to the grocery store (an event that is not for the faint of heart), the possibility of Belle having a sleepover with them came up. Belle was thrilled at the prospect, and later that night I tucked her into an unfamiliar house with a couple she’s known and loved for years while my boyfriend and I went back to the hotel.

The next morning, this saintly couple called to see if we could meet for breakfast a little bit later.  Turns out there was a dollhouse in the guest bedroom where Belle had slept, and she was in seventh heaven playing with it.

We had an amazing, relaxing, and fun weekend, and our hosts went way above and beyond what they needed to.  I loved every minute of our venture (except possibly the long drive), and I know that my travel-mates felt the same way.  I can’t wait to do it again, to explore their very cool house, to go for more hikes, to check out their neck of the woods.

If I told this story to the masses, I suspect the general reaction would be, “Oh, how wonderful!  It’s always nice to have a little vacation, and your hosts sound nearly saint-like.”

So why is it that the response would change when I stated that this strong, committed, loving couple are lesbians?

And make no mistake … it would.

Forget the fact that the vast majority of pedophiles are heterosexual.  Pretend that it’s okay for heterosexuals to participate in everything from Fifty Shades of Grey-type behavior to swinging to bestiality, and don’t-ask-don’t-tell is the status quo.  Spout off passages from …

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Are Women Second Rate Citizens To Conservatives?

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I’ve written two pieces about Rick Santorum and his offensive quotes about women, but he’s not the only culprit of misogyny in the 2012 election. There has been a slew of right-wingers coming out saying really sexiest things. On his radio show, Rush Limbaugh called a law student a “slut” for testifying in the birth control mandate. He went on to say a few choice things about her and the other students that had partaken in this event.

When Mitt Romney, who is *also* running for President, was asked what he thought of Limbaugh’s quote, Romney said, “I’ll just say this, which is, it’s not the language I would have used.” And that’s just it. Even Newt Gingrich condemed Limbaugh for name-calling, but yet, one of the front runners for the 2012 Presidential Election simply says,”it’s not the language I would have used.” What would he have used? It’s hard to imagine that this is actually an issue in the year 2012, but here we are.

My stance on birth control has been clearly stated: it’s a blessing. I need it for medical reasons, and the fact that I probably can’t get pregnant on it is just a plus. I take birth control even when I’m not having sex because again, I medically need it. So, would I still be a slut because I need birth control? Guess so.

Are Rush Limbaugh, Romney, and Santorum so ignorant to the fact that a pill that has been around since the 1950′s (with the knowledge since the 1930′s that hormones prevented ovulation in rabbits) can do more than just let women have sex without pregnancy? These statements are ignorant and extremely irritating – the fact is a women who cares about herself, her health, her career, her needs, would be considered less than a respectable woman. To call someone a slut because they’re not ready to be a mother is dismissive. It’s a way of saying “you’re not the woman I want you be, so there for you are trash.” These are the men running for President and broadcasting this hate and ignorance through our radio-waves.

Encouraging, isn’t it?



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Yes, Another Santorum Post: GOP Candidate Says Birth Control Is ‘Dangerous’

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photo of birth control pictures photos The GOP debates have been going on for so long that many writers already have “election fatigue.” In addition to writing for Zelda Lily, I also do a political column and I am continually blown away by the conservative right’s opinion on birth control. Rick Santorum, who has been under fire for other remarks he’s made regarding feminist issues, also spat this gem:

“One of the things I will talk about that no president has talked about before is I think the dangers of contraception in this country, the whole sexual libertine idea. . . . It’s not OK because it’s a license to do things in the sexual realm that is counter to how things are supposed to be. They’re supposed to be within marriage, for purposes that are, yes, conjugal . . . but also procreative.

That’s the perfect way that a sexual union should happen. We take any part of that out, we diminish the act. And if you can take one part out that’s not for purposes of procreation, that’s not one of the reasons, then you diminish this very special bond between men and women, so why can’t you take other parts of that out? And all of a sudden, it becomes deconstructed to the point where it’s simply pleasure. And that’s certainly a part of it–and it’s an important part of it, don’t get me wrong–but there’s a lot of things we do for pleasure, and this is special, and it needs to be seen as special. Again, I know most presidents don’t talk about those things, and maybe people don’t want us to talk about those things, but I think it’s important that you are who you are. I’m not running for preacher. I’m not running for pastor, but these are important public policy issues.”

So … OK. Birth control is not dangerous – unwanted …

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Rick Santorum GOP Candidate and… Anti-Feminist?

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Rick Santorum is running for President this year. If you’re unfamiliar with Santorum, he was a senator and a published author. In one of Santorum’s books he says, “In far too many families with young children, both parents are working, when, if they took an honest look at the budget, they might confess that both of them don’t need to, or at least may not need to work as much as they do.” In the book he also accused feminists of causing women to abandon their families, writing, “… their misogynistic crusade to make working outside the home the only marker of social value and self-respect.” Naturally, this brought heavy fire from feminists, as they claim that Santorum is saying a “woman’s place is in the home.” Santorum has never came right out and said those words, but he’s danced around them – quite intimately, if you ask me.

What Santorum doesn’t realize, though, with that quote is that working outside the home is not “the only marker for social value and self-respect,” it is a way for women to earn their own money, and give them a sense of responsibility and pride. A way to allow them to contribute to the household in a real way. Maybe they can use their money to spoil their children, or even themselves. If they’re lucky enough, maybe they get a job in something they love or something that interests them, allowing them to grow as human beings. You know? Hm.

As for these women that Santorum is championing, sitting home cleaning and raising children is an honorable thing to do. I know several …

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