Whenever I’m offered something that’s “Home Made” I always ask myself: “Who’s home?”
I’ve been in some homes where I would not have eaten anything offered. Got a Home Made Pie from a home with unemptied cat boxes, overflowing trash and a texture to the kitchen counters? Well, I’ll pass.
I kind of feel the same way about the Family Research Council. “Who’s family?” and perhaps more to the point, “What research?”
Theirs is the kind of family where Dad campaigns against equal rights for all Americans, particularly the gay ones, and then hires a young man half his age from Rentboy.com to accompany him on vacation. Then, because dad is such a great guy, he lies about hiring the prostitute even though there’s home movies of them together at the airport.
If dad wants to take a hooker on vacation, I don’t really think it’s any of my business. Mom’s maybe, but not mine.
But let’s say dad founded an organization called the Family Research Council, as George Alan Rekers did. And suppose that organization is devoted to preventing Americans from having the right to marry people of the same sex, just as the Family Research Council does. What kind of research would then convince Daddy George to pay someone of the same sex hired off of Hustlerboy.com to go on holiday with him? Was it these same findings that told him to lie about it? Or was it a different study?
Either way, theirs is a family reunion I don’t want to attend.
And what about Uncle Tony and his prayer group of Christian Law Makers? Was it research data or just good old fashioned Christian family values that brought AFC President, Tony Perkins together with those Godly legislators in a televised prayer circle to entreat the Lord for the poor health or, better still, the death of an ailing Senator so they could prevent poor people from having access to healthcare?
Whichever it was, I’d rather pass on Thanksgiving at their table.
Now, the good family folks at the Family Research Council want to ban groups they are prejudiced against from access to public transportation. That’s right, not just the back of the bus, they want the right to keep other people off the bus entirely. Or in this case, off the train.
Just like in the good old days, the FRC family values bigots actually object to sharing public transportation with minorities they are prejudice against. Fortunately, it’s gays they hate. If they came out against black or Hispanic Americans on public transpiration they might actually have more to fear than sharing a seat. (Head’s up though, research shows it was okay to be for whites-only drinking fountains not so long ago.)
What kind of family are these people a part of? And what is their research telling them? That God hates poor people? That Christ would pray for a man’s death to get his way? That calling for a return to Pre-Civil Rights Act restrictions on public accommodations and transportation is a good or even a popular idea?
My research indicates that none of those are particularly family values. But then who’d order cat hair pie, right? They can hardly call themselves the Voice of Evil and expect to raise the kind of money they need to protect the health insurance industry.
So apparently, according to the latest Family Research Council data, it’s okay to take a rentboy on vacation, just not on the train.
Eric Shaw Quinn 
Hypocrites. What a world we live in.
For some reason I’m thinking of the line the Joker once delivered- something like “This city deserves a better class of criminal”………
I know you would never make this up, but all I keep saying over and over in my head is “Is this for real? Is this for real? It just can’t be”, repeating it over and over while trying to pick my jaw up off the floor. Why do you have to hate someone in order to make yourself feel like a better person? How ridiculous is that? People who start these groups are so overwhelmed with their own fears, like you say Eric, of being caught with a rentboy on vacation, and that fear is the fear of they themselves being judged and losing the ones they love because they cannot accept what and who they are.
I read somewhere that 1 in 5 girls is molested as a child and 1 in 6 boys. What kind of family values are those? Those don’t have anything to do with gay people and who is starting a committee to stop that from happening….and it’s happening right smack dab in the middle of those so called normal families.
A family is where you are supposed to feel the most safe and secure in your life, not the place that you have to hide all the dirty details from the rest of the world….a family is a place where no matter how much stuff you have, there is no ‘closet’ necessary.
The words ‘Christian’ and ‘Law’ should never appear in the same sentence, let alone the name of a group. One has nothing to do with the other. I was under the impression that being Christian meant being loving and caring and forgiving and tolerant of everyone around you. Laws are created to protect everyone in society and to give them equal rights. How can anyone who wishes someone ill or wants them dead consider themselves Christian or law abiding?
No gays on the bus? What a boring bus. How do these people even know they are sitting beside a gay person? Are they being groped on the bus? Did someone offer them a makeover? What’s that all about?
If there is a God up there, out there, down here, then if He created everyone, how can he hate anyone? Unless of course you are one of those who thinks they are better than everyone else…then you’d better watch your ass!
And going back to the whole rentboy on vacation thing…aren’t airplanes considered public transportation? How will these men conduct their illicit affairs if all passengers are forced to announce their sexual orientation before boarding….I guess they will have to take it up with baggage claims. (hehehe)