{"id":3432,"date":"2013-10-12T14:36:29","date_gmt":"2013-10-12T21:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=3432"},"modified":"2013-10-12T14:36:29","modified_gmt":"2013-10-12T21:36:29","slug":"a-tale-of-two-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2013\/10\/12\/a-tale-of-two-families\/","title":{"rendered":"A Tale of Two Families"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;As a society, we have <a title=\"Social Change: A Play In Three Acts\" href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2013\/05\/18\/social-change-a-play-in-three-acts\/\" target=\"_blank\">gone<\/a> from upholding traditional values where a family with both a mother and a father were held as an ideal, to one where that family must be prohibited while &#8220;diverse families&#8221; are held up as paragons.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Nothing better illustrated this point than the comparison of two families.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3433\" title=\"Inequality\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Inequality.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Inequality.jpg 500w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Inequality-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;In the first case, a lesbian couple adopted a boy that they are trying to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2043345\/The-California-boy-11-undergoing-hormone-blocking-treatment.html#ixzz2gUCf21v6\" target=\"_blank\">turn into a girl<\/a>.\u00a0 They swear that they have <em>nothing<\/em> to do with this and it was all the <em>choice<\/em> of a <em>toddler<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The mothers say that one of the first things Thomas told them when he learned sign language aged three &#8211; because of a speech impediment &#8211; was, &#8216;I am a girl&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;At age seven, after threatening genital mutilation on himself, psychiatrists diagnosed Thomas with gender identity disorder. By the age of eight, he began transitioning.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;That the first words of this boy were allegedly &#8220;I am a girl&#8221; makes the lesbian couple &#8220;doth protest too much.&#8221;\u00a0 And declaring that he will mutilate his genitals is not the sign of enlightenment, but of serious psychological <a href=\"http:\/\/moonbattery.com\/?p=37470\" target=\"_blank\">problems<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;It is possible, though, that the lesbian couple were not the instigators, but that this was due to the contra-normative counter-culture he lived in. The lesbian couple happily declared that they &#8220;&#8216;live in the Bay area where lots of alternative lifestyles are in place.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Contrast this with a conservative couple with traditional values in Massachusetts: They will be <em>prohibited<\/em> by the state from fostering children, and since fostering is usually a prerequisite for adoption, they will also be <em>prohibited<\/em> from adopting.\u00a0 If that couple can not naturally, or through fertility treatment, have a child, they are now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wnd.com\/2013\/09\/state-official-weed-out-conservatives-seeking-to-adopt\/\" target=\"_blank\">condemned by the state to childlessness<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;A video was uncovered of Massachusetts promising to weed out parents with conservative values. \u00a0This was in an open meeting with the media known to be present:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;In a new report, [political activist Amy] Contrada wrote: \u201cIt\u2019s now official policy in Massachusetts. Adults holding traditional values will no longer be allowed to adopt or be foster parents.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Contrada said the video is of a Boston Bar Association forum with the state Department of Children and Families and the state agency on homosexual youth.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe DFC speakers confirmed that they are \u2018weeding out\u2019 adoptive and foster parents who are not willing to wholly accept and support LGBT (lesbian, \u201cgay,\u201d bisexual, or transgender) self-identification by a child in their care,\u201d she wrote.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;In the name of &#8220;tolerance&#8221; those who uphold traditional values will not be tolerated.\u00a0 They will be &#8220;weeded out.&#8221; As the veritable <a title=\"What the State Forbids and What the State Compels\" href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2013\/07\/02\/what-the-state-forbids-and-what-the-state-compels\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ace<\/a> at the Ace of Spade HQ put it:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThere is a very real suspicion, held for good reason, that anything that is not illegal in a socialist state will be mandatory. That is, there are only two categories of actions: the illegal and criminal, and the mandatory and coerced. Only What the State Forbids and What the State Compels.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Some might say that the couple that believe in traditional values aren&#8217;t being forced to abandon those values because they are not being forced to adopt or provide foster care, thus they are not being forced to believe or advocate anything!\u00a0 This turns them into 2<sup>nd<\/sup> class citizens who will be denied what others are freely offered or allowed.\u00a0 It is the same logic that says that outlawing sexual relations between people of the same sex because no one is forcing them to engage in such activities!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Yet again, it is the Progressive Left that demonstrate that it is <em>they<\/em> who are the paragons of <a title=\"It Was NEVER About Tolerance\u2026\" href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2013\/08\/06\/it-was-never-about-tolerance%e2%80%a6\/\" target=\"_blank\">intolerance<\/a> and champions of <a title=\"Progressives, Thy Name is Intolerance\" href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2013\/08\/27\/progressives-thy-name-is-intolerance\/\" target=\"_blank\">inequality<\/a>.\u00a0 Progressive beliefs will be championed, while dissenters will be crushed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\u2026And they&#8217;ll call <em>that<\/em> &#8220;Justice.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;As a society, we have gone from upholding traditional values where a family with both a mother and a father were held as an ideal, to one where that family must be prohibited while &#8220;diverse families&#8221; are held up as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2013\/10\/12\/a-tale-of-two-families\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3433,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[46,24,48],"class_list":["post-3432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-progressives","tag-kyriarchy","tag-leviathan","tag-social-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3432"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3618,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3432\/revisions\/3618"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}