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"How does my same-sex marriage hurt your marriage?"

Glenn Stanton, Focus on the Family's Director of Social Research and Cultural Affairs (I love that job title!) gave it a whirl and what he came up with is that while he doesn't have a problem with individual same-sex couples marrying, he worries that blanketly allowing same-sex marriage will cause his children to think they aren't a necessary component of marriage.  If his daughters see gay and bisexual men married to each other, they won't see the importance of a woman in a marriage and if his sons see lesbian and bisexual women married to each other, they won't feel they are needed in a marriage.

In reality, what he fears is that if his children see men married and women married, they might think being gay or bisexual is alright.  If his children see that being gay or bisexual is okay, they may want wait twenty years in fear and self-loathing to come out.  They might come out as kids or teenagers and embarrass him into leaving his job as a hatemonger.

And don't get me started about gender.  He claims same-sex marriage will dilute the importance of gender in his children's eyes.  Oh, the horror.  They might not learn that female is only a function of and corollary to male.  They might figure out that in the creation story, Adam and Eve were equally duped and equally punished by their God.  They might realize that when man wrote "man" in the bible, God meant him to write "people."  They might note that it was people their father who ensured that the Equal Rights Amendment to the United States Constitution was doomed.  And if gender is so important, why do they claim otherwise when it comes to the rights and dignity of transgender people?

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I watched Joaquin Phoenix on YouTube this morning (thanks to a tip from Dad).  I absolutely loved it.  Throughout, I could only think of the late great Andy Kaufman.  What a pleasure.  I wonder if Andy's explanation of a desire to expand applies to Joaquin.  Ignore all of the conjecture and criticism of Phoenix and watch these two pieces together (not at the exact same time. Letterman is a master in both clips.  These guys couldn't have a better "straight man" than Dave.  First, Andy:
(Has anyone else ever taken up a collection on the Letterman show?)


and then Joaquin:

• 21:53 saw Curious Case of Benjamin Button. It was long, and I wasn't crazy about the intermix of past and present, but all in all good. #
• 23:26 @TerryBain We are your enemies--better to keep us closer. #twitter #

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• 12:37 really likes his new haircut. (I almost typed heircut--that would be something else all together.) #
• 16:30 is recycling paint. I don't know if they recycle or dispose of it. huh... #
• 02:06 @kellidiane We photag every other life cycle event. Why not record the celebration of the transition to life everlasting? #
• 03:06 @SistersTalk Most reputable Universities that I know of in the US require two years of foreign language for admission. #
• 08:41 is wearing red and buying fair trade coffee from locally owned shops. #

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• 13:39 is shedding his shaggy locks. #
• 03:51 stumbles to bed pretending to be on Hawaii time or something West of there. :) #

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• 02:13 is watching doctors smoke on "The Day the Earth Stood Still", not the remake. #
• 02:42 In case Gort is on the Internet somewhere, "Klaatuu Barada Nikto." #

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• 11:11 @womanistmusings We'll trade Obama's press se for Nova Scotia. Oh, wait, you don't want Obama's press sec. Oops. Can we have NS anyway? #
• 11:19 @BodyByChocolate Maybe brick & mortar should carry less inv and use kiosks & Internet more to supp in-store sales--short hrs w ext/kiosk? #
• 11:22 @lezzymom Has HRC made uncompromising promise to inclusive ENDA yet? Until they earn back my trust, NGTLF gets all my money. #

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• 00:55 is pissed off a 93 year old WWII Veteran froze to death in his own home because of a $1000 unpaid heat bill and No one claims responsibility #

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• 22:34 feels sort of dirty about enjoying "The Last Templar" on NBC tonight. Conspiracy trash movies are the best. #
• 23:01 Shooting in NE Spokane County: Victim's truck has been transported to Providence Sacred Heart Med Ctr with a gunshot wound. #
• 23:54 The problem with wearing tights and a cape is wear to put the car keys. #
• 01:39 watches The Bourne Supremacy and wishes he had other Bourne movies that he can't remember the plots of (dangling preposition alert). #
• 03:59 is trying to find where Hiram Forbes was in 1860. According to the US Census he wasn't home. At war? Hmmmm... #
• 05:20 is up too late--should have taken a traz hours ago. ugh. Maybe I can snag three hours before a wee one wakes up. g'night. #

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