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News & ArtsTuesday, August 30, 2011
Hetero Every Child Deserves a Mother and a Father
Posted by Dan Savage on Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 8:13 AM
A 10-year-old boy who died of dehydration after his parents deprived him of water last month was being disciplined for wetting the bed.... Jonathan died July 25 after he collapsed at the Red Bird home of his father and stepmother. Jonathan’s twin brother, Joseph, was also staying at the home but was not injured.... According to Joseph, his parents put Jonathan in a room without air conditioning and told him to stand by the window with the sun beating down on him. Joseph said that on the day Jonathan died he had peanut butter stuck in his throat but his parents wouldn’t let him wash it down.... “I wanted to do something, but I couldn’t,” Joseph said. “I couldn’t do nothing because I would get in trouble.”
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I'd like to see the mother and father die a slow painful death. Preferably in a public square where everyone could watch.
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This is horrible. I feel horrible for that child to be treated so callously by his parents and then have his death exploited by Dan Savage for his crusade to prove same sex parents are so much better than heterosexual parents. It makes me wonder what horrors he (Dan) must have suffered from his own horrible heterosexual parents. You hear it all the time in the comment section for these posts how these extreme child abuse cases prove the superiority of same sex couples who "choose" to have kids as opposed to the lazy breeders who just shoot out the poor creatures without giving it a second thought. I really enjoyed the hypocrisy that came from the recent brutal slaying of the toddler by his gay father where it was repeatedly pointed out that such abuse is the exception and not the rule. Please Dan show a little respect for the dead and stop exploiting their memories for your smug satisfaction.
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@3, it's not superiority of same sex couples raising kids that Dan's trying to prove. It's that having opposite-sex parents is no guarantee of a happy, loving childhood (the credo of the AFA and evangelical Christians etc. etc.).
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@6: Thank you Vince for always providing that link. It always reminds me what is really important in these stories.
@3: Griffin @4 is correct. Pointing out the hypocrisy of organizations such as the AFA has always been Dan’s stated reason for these posts. What people say here in comments are their own opinions, and are on them. Not Dan.
Who, you seem to have conveniently forgotten, did address the tragedy involving Dr. Louis Chen on the day it was first reported, and in no way gave the Dr. any kind of a pass due to his being gay.
Go look it up.
@3: Griffin @4 is correct. Pointing out the hypocrisy of organizations such as the AFA has always been Dan’s stated reason for these posts. What people say here in comments are their own opinions, and are on them. Not Dan.
Who, you seem to have conveniently forgotten, did address the tragedy involving Dr. Louis Chen on the day it was first reported, and in no way gave the Dr. any kind of a pass due to his being gay.
Go look it up.
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My heart breaks for the twin brother who survived. I cannot even fathom going on after having that experience and watching your brother die like that.
Thank you for the link, Vince@6. Helping organizations like that is far more valuable than sitting here in horror.
Thank you for the link, Vince@6. Helping organizations like that is far more valuable than sitting here in horror.
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I think Slog may need an FAQ section. One of the Qs that gets Aed so F would be "Are you saying gay people are inherently better parents than straight people? I find that offensive!" Save us all a little explanatory typing every time you post this.
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@10 - They say that every time they try to ban gay people from getting married, adopting, teaching school, etc...
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@10, 12 - I'm not sure what you're asking. Are you looking for "in their pulpits" "at their poorly-attended bus tours" "on CNN" or "in their mouths"?
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At least now the kid is with Gawd, so that he will never be recruited into the homosexual lifestyle.
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@10-14 look, both the left and the right uses this sort of argument and it's always a cheap shot. (Palin and Limbaugh are far worse than Michael Moore about it, and I would bet the same imbalance is true comparing your average tea-partier vs. Green-partier.) Still, we should strive to elevate the dialogue. Let's agree to make no uncited blanket statements or straw man arguments until the presidential election is done, h'm?
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