I am about to make my Oscars video but I wanted to show everyone this first (I know, I know WAY too much of me for one day :-P) -- Ryan James Yezak is a genius, I've said it before and I'll keep preaching it Second Class Citizens is going to be an incredible look at what life is really like for the LGBT community -- and likely will be as horrifying for those of us, like myself, who are lucky enough to live in an open-minded area, as it is for the heterosexuals who watch it and will hopefully, finally get the message.
These sort of preview messages are building in intensity, which is crazy and only makes me wonder just how intense the actual film will be. It's going to have to be intense to do justice to its topic though, so I'm glad to see that.
As a side note, how bizarre is it to see Tyler Oakley and Jonathan Lovitz being so very serious?
So, you're gonna end up with TWO blog posts AND a video from me today. Too much? I thought so. :-P
The reason being, I really want to address the six reasons gays cannot have marriage that the organization Minnesota For Marriage gave in their little weekly email blast "Marriage Minutes". Of course the reasons are of sound logic (if you're deranged) and are highly researched and educated (if the only person you've ever met or Googled is Rick Santorum) and absolutely true (if you live in an alternate reality).
Here's the video:
I know, that's pretty absurd in and of itself -- especially since churches will not be losing their tax exempt status for not recognizing same-sex marriage, and no one is suggesting they should. (I would suggest, however, that churches lose their tax exempt status the *second* they put any money whatsoever towards any piece of legislation.) The bold-faced lying going on in this video isn't particularly surprising or new and different though.
But then there was text that came with it. I'm just going to link to the article where I read the text, and then I'm going to tear apart the six reasons. The article is here. As for the six reasons....
Sex between a man and a woman has the unique capacity to create a child.
It's probably not necessary to point out that couples get married all the time who don't procreate. We allow the elderly and the infertile to marry. Furthermore, this is frighteningly close to suggesting that the government tell us how many children each couple should have. I read Ender's Game. This is not a good idea.
Pregnancy can occur regardless of whether the couple intends to create a child or not.
Which is actually why studies have shown that same-sex parents are often times better parents. See, they HAVE to want the child. Heterosexual couples don't.
The new human life that is created is precious and needs the protection of adults.
And we all know that homosexuals don't age past seventeen. Ever. They never become adults. All the adult homosexuals you've ever met ARE LYING. They may look 176 years old, but they're actually still below the voting age.
The man and woman who created the new life typically and are best at protecting and guiding the child.
Actually, again, it's been shown in multiple studies that homosexual couples are much more motivated as far as protecting and raising a child because they, by their very nature, must have wanted and committed to having and raising a child before they have it.
They agree that they will both be legally responsible for any child conceived during the marriage.
Actually, no, they don't. The law forces them to be responsible for the child. This is why the law takes children from the care of unfit parents. This is why the law can force a deadbeat dad (or mother) to start paying child support. Many of the laws regarding marriage exist to protect the children of a couple -- protections the children raised by same-sex couples lack. Using the "children" argument is absolutely the fastest way to look like a cold-hearted hypocrite who doesn't care about children, and I appreciate that Minnesota For Marriage is making it SO easy to show how they don't care about children.
Couples must work for decades to raise a child from conception to adulthood.
Oh, I get it. Because homosexuals don't live past the age of seventeen they're not able to work for decades. Now it all makes sense.
I know, I know, I'm supposed to be writing about hot guys from OUT Magazine. And I totally flaked yesterday because of the Oscars! So here's what I'm going to do -- tomorrow I'm going to make a video talking about the Oscars so I can blog about hot guys for y'all. Good deal, yeah? Good.
It's somewhat alarming to me that I'm older than one of the men on the Eligible Bachelor's List -- Glee's Chris Colfer.
He's cute -- anyone can see that, especially since at 21 he still looks young enough to play a teenager. (Then again, I'm 24 and could play a teenager, or so I tell myself!) What really sells him as a hottie though, is his unreal voice.
You're right. It's not fair that you can't sing like that.
Not only is he an immensely talented singer and actor, he also -- apparently, is writing and directing films. We'll have to cross our fingers. Here's a trailer of the movie he's starring in, and wrote, and directed -- Struck by Lightning.
EDIT (3/1/2012): The voting is closed and it looks like Chris Colfer has been selected as the number 1 most eligible bachelor of the year!
OUT Magazine is making us pick the most eligible openly gay bachelors. Again.
They're sort of torturous. You have to vote -- you can only pick one at a time, but they let you vote multiple times. Almost all of the men are beautiful, successful, wealthy, perfection. Like, you're supposed to pick from this list? As one of my Facebook friends said, "I'm like a kid in a candy shop!"
But, it made me think of something I haven't done in a while. Talked about hot guys. Which I'll do today!
First of all, I wanted to express my displeasure over the fact that my favorite professional hottie, model and spokesperson for XWearEthan Reynolds, isn't on the list despite his hotness (and he is single, gentlemen!)
But alas, he's not on the list. Neither am I, so obviously there's something amiss -- who could pass up this? Am I right??
We'll get the two of us on the list next year!
Moving on to the people who actually ARE on the list... I initially voted for Ronnie Kroell. Why? Well, firstly, I know him and he's super fantastically sweet and I adore him -- but also because he looks like this:
But there's so many other hotties on the list..... that I'm going to make posts about my favorites to give you all a BUNCH of posts about hot men.
I think it's fantastic that the One Million Moms want to take full advantage of the fact that ENDA hasn't passed yet. What courage! Standing up for discrimination when its been under siege all these years!
Anyways, the point of this video is that frankly, I don't think we really want the One Million Moms shopping or eating in the same places that we do. So, we should encourage them not to. Support their boycott!
JC Penny deserves extra credit because they would legally have been completely fine to fire Ellen due to her sexuality -- there are no protections afforded LGBT employees in the state of Texas (where JCP's corporate offices are). Standing by her in the face of any controversy is great. Although, y'know, you also can't buy this kind of publicity -- maybe this was their intention all along.
Actually, I was kind of hoping this controversy would bring public attention back to ENDA -- which still hasn't passed -- but so far, it's mostly just stayed on Ellen and this particular situation.
