Pro-Marriage Demonstration

Great video from Cao of Cao's Blog on the demonstrations in Chicago Friday. I will say this: it only took the counter-protesters about 2 minutes before they started calling us names: bigot, homophobe, right-wingers. They alternated between contempt for religion and appeals to it. Their chanting and hostility form a backdrop throughout this video.

I would estimate about 150 people came out for this march and rally in defense of traditional marriage, with about half that many counter-protesters demanding the right to redefine marriage for everyone.

If they were really as tolerant as they claim, you might think that they would just let us make our views heard peacefully, but no. Our folks prayed the rosary, and they chanted violent rhetoric through bullhorns.

And yes, I'm in this video.



Sometimes people like to point out that conservatives are a monochromatic group, but that certainly wasn't the case Friday. It was the folks carrying the rainbow flags who were all one color.

In related news, the Illinois civil unions law hasn't even taken effect, and its already pushing the Catholic Church out of the adoption business.

And, given that homosexual relationships don't engender children, their only hope for the future is co-opt heterosexuals' kids to embrace their lifestyle. So we recently had a rare moment of honesty from a gay blogger:

In response to New York’s recently introduced marriage equality bill, the so-called National Organization for Marriage got a bunch of pictures of black people and some guy who sounds like Foghorn Leghorn to repeat the same lies about indoctrinating schoolchildren that they ran in 2009. They accuse us of exploiting children and in response we say, “NOOO! We’re not gonna make kids learn about homosexuality, we swear! It’s not like we’re trying to recruit your children or anything.” But let’s face it—that’s a lie. We want educators to teach future generations of children to accept queer sexuality. In fact, our very future depends on it.

...Recruiting children? You bet we are.

Why would we push anti-bullying programs or social studies classes that teach kids about the historical contributions of famous queers unless we wanted to deliberately educate children to accept queer sexuality as normal?

Remember, Prop 8 passed along age lines with the very old voting largely in favor of it. The younger generation doesn’t fear homosexuality as much because they’re exposed to fags on TV, online, and at school. And I don’t know a single lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender person who wants that to stop. I for one certainly want tons of school children to learn that it’s OK to be gay, that people of the same sex should be allowed to legally marry each other, and that anyone can kiss a person of the same sex without feeling like a freak. And I would very much like for many of these young boys to grow up and start fucking men. I want lots of young ladies to develop into young women who voraciously munch box. I want this just as badly as many parents want their own kids to grow up and rub urinary tracts together to trade proteins and forcefully excrete a baby.

I and a lot of other people want to indoctrinate, recruit, teach, and expose children to queer sexuality AND THERE’S NOTHING WRONG WITH THAT.

I dont' get the impression that this fellow really believes that line about people being born gay, either.

And for our liberals readers, how would you feel about your kids being gay?

But while Jerry, Geoff, and other progressive dads of their generation are more than happy to down margaritas and watch Project Runway with gay friends, they're not so comfortable with the idea of their own offspring going the way of Dumbledore. And only on the condition of anonymity will they elaborate on why, exactly...

Parents who say they're open to the idea of homosexuality are often the most difficult for a child to come out to. "Perhaps they make a distinction between your kid and mine," he says. "It's nice for other people's children to be gay or to have gay friends, but one's own child is a different story. Indeed, some of the young people say religiously conservative parents respond the best, because of the value of family. But it's the progressive, holier-than-thou parents who often can't cope."

One Christmas, my wife went over to Goodwill and came back with a boxfull of "dress-up clothes" for the kids; play costumes they could mix and match. I was somewhat disturbed when my then-four-year-old son put on the evening gown, high heels, and lady's hat and paraded around the living room, but I didn't make a sound, and he never did it again.