Status Updates From El Matrimonio Bajo Ataque: ...

With a great deal of passion very obviously littering this little book, Dr. Dobson drives home key arguments on the need to preserve the traditional marriage institution consisting of a man and a woman (as they were when they were born). The book is written to an American audience and there is much content about the need for a Federal Marriage Amendment but it does speak to Christians everywhere to speak out.

...Seems more than a little disingenuous to encourage readers to express their beliefs by literally copy-pasting pre-written paragraphs for letters to the editor, but, I should perhaps grade that at least on a curve as I have seen a number of political form-letters I haven't objected to.

So basically, 'I think gay people are a storm destroying the nation and eroding all moral decency and that that support pedophilia but I'm definitely not hateful, because I am sad they are gay and super supportive of ex-gay ministry.' Yeah, THAT adds up neatly.

...No further quibbles with logic (yet). I do, obviously, have considerable differences with the author on our underlying ideals, definitions, and understandings of what does and doesn't constitute reasonable allowances for human dignity.

Oh, gay/Nazi comparisons, excellent. >.< Trying to remember if it was an FotF worldviews curriculum which claimed pink triangles were lies and propaganda. Also, the reason wedded couples deserve tax-cuts unwedded ones don't apparently is that they are *supporting children* - ignoring both unwedded couples supporting children, and wedded ones who are childless.

...And the fiery rhetoric about the impending collapse of civilization continues. I'm less angry now than deeply sad, wondering if my parents ever honestly believed that people like myself were going to destroy their world. I think I'll work on my library books for a bit, to get my head clear.

...Oh, never mind about us being one of the general effects of sin nature on sexuality, apparently We Gays are a perfect storm seeking, among other goals of our Agenda, to LEGALIZE PEDOPHILIA, are destroying society, and shall cause "a vast increase in social disorder and human suffering." That escalated fast. Also nobody is Really gay or bi, just "claiming to have homosexual tendencies." What's our motivation, then?

have seen a good deal of extreme stereotyping about gendered behavior thinly supported by personal-life anecdotes and talk about "the inner city" (which ignores poverty as a contributing factor for behavior), and a certain amount of amusingly intense insistence that marriage has always been a single, well-respected and understood institution... please ignore the Biblical polygamy behind the curtain. (2/2)

I am currently reading this find off my parents' bookshelf in an effort to better understand, without the haze of memories, how the people they trust see me. How they are likely to react to finding that one or more of the children they took with them to an anti-gay rally some years ago is not straight. So far I haven't seen much of Dr. Dobson's specific views on gay folk other than "immorality of the age" - (1/2)