Rant on Anti-Gay "Organizations"

Okay, so I'm not going to make this organized in any right, because I'm just a little irate...

I was reading a new Gay news blog I ran across, UnicornBooty.com, and saw this little gem:

http://unicornbooty.com/2011/07/bigot-resigns-from-job-rather-than-sign-gay-marriage-licenses/

That's right, a town clerk in New York state decided to resign because she didn't want to sign gay marriage licenses. I dug further into the story, and it lead me to THIS site, which is where she posted a comment I guess or something...

http://www.nycf.info/component/content/article/37-home/403-first-town-clerk-announces-resignation-in-light-of-gay-qmarriageq-legislation

Okay, so I'm reading that site, and on the right hand side, there's a ticker of how many abortions have happened thus far in 2011 in NY, and how much tax-payer's dollars have paid Planned Parenthood thus far in 2011.

HOLD UP!

Abortion is such a hot topic issue. My mother would have possibly aborted me, due to how she was not ready in her life yet to have me. And the odd part is, we have SUCH a divided nation, based on this belief that we are "ending a life". Now, keep in mind, we're basing that on looking INTO THE FUTURE...

So let's take a harder look at this, shall we?

A possible future for a baby that was unplanned. Hmm, many options here...

1) A woman is raped. She becomes pregnant. Should she give birth to this child who she had no plans for, and didn't want? To a father who CLEARLY will not be providing support, he just committed a crime! He may be found, caught, and go to jail... Then he REALLY won't be available to sue for child support, eh?

2) A woman gets pregnant with her "boyfriend" at the time, maybe cheating on her REAL boyfriend (or husband or what have you). She has that child, and maybe by then the REAL boyfriend found out what she was doing and dumped her. Oops, now this kid is born, has no daddy, and a mommy that can't take care of him, or maybe didn't want him. Sure, I can take a Springer/Maury view on this and say "SHOULN'T HAVE SPREAD YOUR LEGS, HO!" but that's not going to solve the issue. There's still a child being born into a life of poverty.

3) Then there's the ever so random woman that goes "I'm so fucked up on drugs, I don't know what I'm doing" and she got pregnant with her drug dealer's kid. Drug dealer gets busted. Mom's a junkie. Kid gets born, maybe with some problems from the drugs, maybe not. Mom is CLEARLY unfit to take care of herself, let alone her kid, and the kid goes into CPS (or whatever local Childcare service, or as I call it, baby repoman). So now this kid is "in the system" as an orphan.

Now those situations go on the hypothetical assumption that abortion is unavailable cuz the conservatives got their way and abortion was made illegal... But let's take a look at situation 3.

The kid is in the system. He needs adopted. Has ANYONE taken a look at how many kids NEED to be adopted, vs how many parents are legally able/willing to adopt? Of course, people have, and the studies show that there's an overwhelming amount of kids that need parents. Well, now lets throw in gay couples... Oh, wait a second, that would easily balance out everything. But, it's illegal in MANY areas/states.

I'll admit, I haven't looked into the laws on adoption because, in all honesty, I'm not sure I'll ever have kids, but if I do, I wouldn't go the route of adoption, I think. But we're far from the time where I should be worrying about that.

So, rounding out this whole ordeal, let's make some more of the nonsense these conservatives are pushing on people...

They want to make sure women can't abort. Okay, so that makes more kids in unfit homes (drug house, poor as all hell, etc etc), or not having homes at all (orphaned). Well, those conservatives ALSO don't want gay couples to get married, and don't want them to adopt children either. So, that means they just want to overpopulate the world and make us all bankrupt for paying for these kids to be stuck in the system until they're 18? Then what, they get bullied for any of a number of reasons, some turn out to be gay and get bullied for that, and we get more "gay suicides" as a side effect? Oh look, that solved the problem in the first place! But then it becomes a tragedy, because that kid got the chance to live, and had 18 years of a "life" that may have never happened in the first place, and that's what's important. That kid may never have been born to live in that hell. But see once a kid is born, there's no going back. You can't take back everything. Once they are conceived, you need to work fast to decide if that's what you want. Because there is such a thing as "too late" when still a fetus. But it should REALLY be something that is thought about by these dumb-ass conservatives. If you're gonna make a woman carry a baby all the way through her 9 months of hell, then make sure a gay couple can adopt that baby. Now, obviously there'd be some compromise made in abortion laws, where abortion is legal if it was a rape (I can just see the reported rape cases going up and up on a chart, and the percentage of those that are false would be HUGE, I'd bet), or if having the baby would pose undue health-risks to the mother. But I'm sure there'd be ways around that, too.

In the end, I really just wish that people would get over the homophobia. We hated blacks because they were black (how baseless is that? "Your skin color is different, therefore I don't like you," WTF?), we hated women just because they were perceived to be "weaker"... Now it's hate the gays, because the gays are "weak" and don't promote family values. NEWS FLASH, CONSERVATIVES: I know a few couples who would make FANTASTIC PARENTS, and a few STRAIGHT couples that ARE parents, and they're HORRIBLE! So you tell me, how is it fair for gays not to be allowed to wed, and have kids, when straight folk can, and they do a horrible job at it? Huh?! And a gay couple that DOESN'T want kids isn't going to do much harm to the "sanctity" of marriage. They're going to live a happy life together, and that's that. They may not have children, but at least it's a way of nature doing "population control" to some extent.

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