This past week has seen the outrage generated by parents of donor and invitro-fertilization children following a now-infamous Panorama magazine interview conducted with the fashion designers Dolce & Gabbana, wherein Domenico Dolce proclaimed, “You are born to a mother and a father — or at least that’s how it should be. I call children of chemistry, synthetic children.” Immediately, Elton John advocated a boycott of the designers’ products in retaliation for the perceived offense against his two sons, who were conceived via an egg donor and surrogate mother.” http://www.npr.org/2015/03/16/393403211/elton-john-declares-boycott-against-dolce-gabbana
In another story a young woman named Heather wrote about how much she loved her mother and her partner (a lesbian couple), yet longed for her father. On the internet you would think she had suggested lynching them even though she wrote of fond memories with her mother’s lesbian friends and gay sponsored events. Children of other disrupted families are allowed to grieve, why not children of gay couples, she wonders. http://thefederalist.com/2015/03/17/dear-gay-community-your-kids-are-hurting/
A black liberal media personality, MSNBC contributor Jonathan Capeheart, in an op-ed apologized this past week for reporting on the Ferguson story before he had all the facts—particularly the “Hands up don’t shoot,” and I’d be surprised if he isn’t fired by Monday. It’s rare for any news journalist to sincerely apologize, liberal or conservative. He should be commended, not condemned. Just ask Juan Williams of Fox who was fired by NPR. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/wp/2015/03/19/hands-up-dont-shoot-did-not-happen-in-ferguson/
And my goodness, don’t even get started on the high STD and HIV rates among transgendered male to female persons. They are really messing with the stats for women. I’d be surprised if studies will continue to be reported in JAMA. It’s a tiny segment of the population with a huge problem. http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/risk/transgender/
And if you point out the high abortion rate for black women (about 38% of black pregnancies in NYC are aborted), then you are a racist—even if the government reports on it first. I know this from personal experience when I posted the information on Facebook and was dropped by a liberal for being racist. http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr60/nvsr60_07.pdf
Truth is a casualty when ideology is the goal. There was a time, even in my life time, when liberal was a proud word—stood for being open and tolerant to new ideas and exchange of information. Now it means one must desire and vote for more government control and concede to the current culture or be called a hater.
3 comments:
Race, sex and gender. Sort of make you wish for something substantial.
One of my FB friends just gave birth last week as a surrogate mother to a precious baby whose 2 fathers were there to greet him. It's not her first surrogate pregnancy. I'm sure this baby will have a happy life with his 2 daddys. Last week another of my FB friends climbed the highest mountain on Oceania, another had an article on NPR about his work with poor people in Kenya and another was accepted into a PhD program at Oxford. And you focus on race, gender, and sex...... smh
And you comment on race, gender and sex posts and not health, fashion, books, religion. . . smh.
Post a Comment