The campaign by Believe Out Loud includes a video released this week showing a young boy and his two mothers walking down the aisle of a church. Some of the people in the pews look at them skeptically, but finally the minister says, “Welcome — everyone.”
“To celebrate the diversity of all families, we chose Mother’s Day to kick off this campaign,” Sung Park, program director of Believe Out Loud, said in a press release. “Mothers teach us to value everyone equally, to treat others the way we would like to be treated. Jesus also taught us that. What better day than Mother’s Day to remind people of this universal value.”
Will they use the same clip on Father's Day? Are they arguing that children without a mother can't learn about equality? I accept the equality part, just not as twisted. All children should be treated equally in respect to having a relationship with their parents which means accepting they have not only a mom, but a dad.
Fatherhood - the forgotten institution. Every child deserves a caring mother and father. It's a shame that moral relativists can't see the harm in promoting the "It's OK to...." ideal.
ReplyDeleteI find it frustrating, that we already know that homosexuals initial fear is coming to terms with their orientation within their own family. Why aren't there more public service campaigns, for instance showing a teenage son confiding with his father or an aunt and her partner taking out her nieces and nephews to the beach?
ReplyDeleteAs with the shellfish analogy, it doesn't follow through how family members argue that the only way to show acceptance is to deny the very biological kinship that accepts them?
It seems even with redefining marriage, we still more then ever have separate but equal. For instance, Yahoo always features a hetero-normative feature about romantic relationships, i.e. 'How do you know he's serious' or 'How can you tell if she's too controlling?'. Yahoo also has a separate from page in terms of Yahoo Pride, that is committed to GLBT community.
Why can't relationship features on the front page be more gender neutral/inclusive?
First, I would hope that family does feel welcomed. I might be the first to welcome them and encourage support.
ReplyDeleteBut I also agree that the prejudice displayed against fatherhood is the buried headline -- if they really are a situation where a father has been removed from the child's life only because of his gender.