On Observing a Gay Jewish Parent
On Observing a Gay Jewish Parent
#0On Observing a Gay Jewish Parent
Posted: 6/9/05 at 2:11pm
No, not me! This beautiful letter was Andrew Sullivan's Email of the Day:
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EMAIL OF THE DAY: Speaking to "love's ragged edge," our synagogue-run pre-school just elected a gay dad to be president of the parents assistance league (PAL). He's a former cruise director and has the most amazing money-making ideas. Plus, he gets along with just about everybody.
And Thank God for Jeffrey. He has a lot more commitment to helping out at the school than pretty much any other mom, here. Plus, he has a sense of humor--you can roll your eyes at the guy when someone makes a particularly stupid remark, and he gets it. My twins and his older daughter graduated together today (seriously, they have graduation ceremonies for five-year-olds), and it was so sweet to see his mum here from Manchester, an elderly woman who was clearly proud to watch this momentous (to first-time parents) occasion. And you know what I thought?
Thank God I live in a world where this woman gets to have grandchildren. Why should she be deprived of the basic human experience just because some on the loony right don't know when to mind their own business. My parents are delighted by/obsessed with my kids, and this woman, who obviously raised an incredibly decent and charming son, deserves all the naches (yiddish for happiness) she can get.
I'm sorry, but the people who would deny others the pleasures/bounty life has to offer are just hateful. They can't deal with a rapidly changing world (I'm talking technology, science, globalization) and so they're taking it out on the easiest targets. Imagine if they tried this crap with any other minority group? This is why I could never vote Republican. For the sake of a few votes, the party has not only been coopted by, but is helping bolster a very frightened bunch of losers.
Why do you think people in the South didn't want to give blacks equal rights? Because they were threatened. Well, I think gays just represent everything about the modern world that threatens the socially conservative right.
http://www.andrewsullivan.com/
#2re: On Observing a Gay Jewish Parent
Posted: 6/9/05 at 2:17pmAny idea what the name of this guy is? Sounds like someone I probably know from the ships (worked on cruises myself, mostly on Royal Caribbean).
#3re: On Observing a Gay Jewish Parent
Posted: 6/9/05 at 2:43pmYou could write to Andrew at his blog, but he doesn't publish the names and email addresses of the letters he receives--and this letter writer was not the gay dad in question.
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