One of the most striking things about it is that while the woman (Katy) claims that she is willing to accept belief systems other than her own, she would still vote against this couple's right to adopt children. In my mind, if you would vote to eliminate the rights of another belief system, you are not accepting them.
I am not a member of the Mormon Church, and I believe that some of their teachings are incorrect. If a proposition were to arise from an Anti-Mormon group that proposes that Mormons should not be allowed to adopt children would she see the hypocrisy in her statements? Would that proposition not seem preposterous?
To take that a step further, it is extremely difficult to make the argument that a person was "born a Mormon" and they had no choice in their beliefs. Whereas it is very difficult to make the argument that a gay person was NOT born gay. I feel like it is more logical that a person can be denied rights because of a choice rather than for something that is inherit in them.
My biggest point is that it would seem preposterous for a GLBT group to try to remove a Christian's rights to adopt, or a Mormon's or anybody else's, yet it is acceptable for Christians, Mormons and other groups to propose to remove the same rights for a GLBT couple. It is hard for me to comprehend how anyone could vote against there being MORE rights in the world, yet time and time again movements are made to vote a group's rights away. A journalist, I cannot remember who, made the comment that the passing of Proposition 8 in California is the first time in United States history that a civil right has been voted away by majority vote.
I do believe in the rights of a GLBT couple to adopt. I don't believe the teachings of the majority of religious groups, and if I had it my way I wouldn't have children brought up under the schools of some of these groups, BUT I am not going to fight against these groups right to have a family. All I ask is that they do the same for GLBT families.
Comments on the Video:
- I think one of Katy's biggest hurdles to overcome in this video is to go into this type of situation trying to explore her and others' beliefs rather than going through it as a test to whether or not she can stick to her beliefs.
- In many of the situations in which Katy feels her beliefs are being attacked, I do not think they are, and I do not think she realized that by her standards she is attacking their beliefs just as much.
- I think a big breakthrough will be when religious groups realize that GLBT communities are not trying to attack others' religious beliefs but merely trying to defend their own.
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What is that saying-- if you want to protect families, outlaw divorce instead of gay adoption? Having worked in the psych dept for almost 2 years, I've had to read some downright disturbing and heartbreaking stuff about what parents do to their kids. I can't recall any of these cases being of kids with two moms or two dads (not that gay parents automatically rocket you into being a super-kid) but the people who claim to be so concerned with the well-being of today's children need to look at how much divorce messes up kids, or how drug addicted parents are allowed to pop out boatloads of children before someone (if anyone) ever intervenes. So many of the kids in our clinic (or really anywhere, for that matter) would give absolutely anything to live in a stable home with two loving parents and probably none of them have any judgment toward the gender or sexual orientation of those people, as long as they're there to tuck them in at night.
Some people think that having gay parents is going to make the kids gay which is just dumbdumbdumb and it really infuriates me when people think being gay is a choice. I would like to think that the majority of kids with gay parents would grow up to be a lot more accepting and open-minded than the kids who are being raised in a Mormon household being told that gay is wrong.
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