Category: Love

Analysis Finds Finds No Negative Effects On Straight Marriages Since Courts Legalized Same-Sex Marriage

Analysis Finds Finds No Negative Effects On Straight Marriages Since Courts Legalized Same-Sex Marriage

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June 2, 2024 LGBT News, Marriage Equality

 

Axios reports:

The U.S. has not seen any negative effects on marriage, divorce or living arrangements among all couples since Massachusetts issued the first state-sanctioned, same-sex marriage licenses 20 years ago, a new analysis says.

A review of nearly 100 studies examining the consequences of same-sex marriage on multiple measures of family formation and well-being found no harm to different-sex unions, a report from RAND and UCLA found.

The analysis found that after states legalized marriage for same-sex couples, marriage numbers jumped in those states at rates greater than what could be accounted for by the new marriages of same-sex couples alone. Researchers found no consistent evidence of an increase in divorce as a consequence of legalizing marriage for same-sex couples.

Read the full article. Hate groups warned back then and continue to claim today that same-sex marriage would result in the destruction of the “natural family.” Some, such as the Liberty Counsel, have claimed that same-sex marriage laws legalized pedophilia, bestiality, and incest marriages. Last month the Liberty Counsel declared that the still unfolding 2015 Kim Davis case will soon be before the Supreme Court.

 

Michaelan hour ago

Fundamentalists prophesy doom to scam money out of the unwitting?

I’m shocked!

Sean  Michaelan hour ago

Hate is quite profitable: Valentina Gomez, Chaya Raichik, Tony Perkins, Maggie Gallagher, Anita Bryant, Candace Owens, Michelle Malkin, Rupert Murdoch, the list is endless.

DmR 2 hours ago

If anyone’s straight cishet marriage is threatened by anyone else marrying, something is wrong with that relationship!

Sam_Handwich 2 hours ago

I’d like to see a comparison of divorce rates over the last 20 years, same sex couples vs opposite sex couples.

BartmanLA an hour ago

The Evangelicals and the hardcore Right Wing crazies are so obsessed with the sex life of LGBT people that they usually FAIL to take care of their own lives, how many of the more outspoken Anti Gay activists have been divorced, cheated on their spouse with someone else, have been caught soliciting sex from both men and women? They have nothing better to do with their sad pathetic lives than to focus on someone else’s.

 

 

Elagabalusan hour ago

I’ll never forget former Congressman Barney Frank asking one of his homophobic colleagues in the House how Frank’s gay marriage adversely affected his colleague’s marriage. The answer, of course, was silence.

Oscarlating Wildely  Elagabalusan hour ago

He also had a grand ol’ reaction when someone asked him about non-heteros showering or taking a piss next to the straights: “What do you think has been happening for years?”

Paul  Elagabalusan hour ago

I always got a kick out of Barney Frank.

Remember whenDick Armey called him ‘Barney Fag’ and then tried to excuse it away by saying it was a ‘mispronunciation’? Barney’s reply was the best:<blockquote> “I rule out that it was an innocent mispronunciation,” said Barney Frank from his office this week, reflecting on the slur that shook the 104th Congress. “I turned to my own expert, my mother, who reports that in 59 years of marriage, no one ever introduced her as Elsie Fag.”</blockquote> https://www.nytimes.com/199…

vap 2 hours ago

As if that’s going to stop them from still trying to overturn Obergefell.

Bert_Bauer an hour ago

The GQP also said it would lead to child marriage, knowing that it was already legal in a number of states AND that the GQP is still trying to stop proposed bans on the practice.

Jeff Breeze an hour ago

But of course this evidence is completely meaningless because it doesnt fit the evangelical victim mindset.

clay  Trigeminal Autonomic Cephalgiaan hour ago

Drag queen story time reading in Philadelphia sets Guinness World Record for attendance
The event, hosted by the Philadelphia Gay News and sponsored by Visit Philadelphia, saw Philadelphia drag performers reading children’s stories to 263 people, which organizers said was a first-ever Guinness World Record for such an event.

 

 

Letting Go Of Control And Hatred; Persevering With Love

I love when he is talking about just loving others as I loved you, he then adds some example.  One was don’t try to force your morality on others, just love them like I love you.  He adds quite a few examples of the don’t just love as I love you.   I think it is worth listening to even if you are not religious or not Christian.  Hugs.  Scottie

The Big Idea: Rob Costello

The Big Idea: Rob Costello

I want to thank Ali for the link.   Below is what she wrote about the site.   For those wondering what the 2S in the LGBTQIA2S is two spirit people, which is how the first people called same sex attracted people which I think is grand.  Hugs  Scottie

Meanwhile, take a look at this. It’s short, but you’ll appreciate it; representation is important. https://whatever.scalzi.com/2024/05/21/the-big-idea-rob-costello/ . (Not that Rob Costello.)

Some clips from Rev. Ed Trevors

I was going to put this one lower in the list until I listened closely to the end.  In fact I repeated the last half twice to make sure I understood what he was saying.  He is the first, maybe only Christ bible pusher who has said openly and publically that conversion to Christianity, that believing in being a good person and treating others the way Jesus talked about lets you have a spot in his fold, his heaven.  He specifically doesn’t mention atheists, but he has before.  Hugs.  Scottie

 

In the following video Rev Trevors makes clear he not only dislikes the prosperity gospel preachers, he dislikes the message they send for not being biblical.  He totally shoots down the new push all these getting rich by preaching people are touting, Christian Nationalism and the idea that the US was founded as a Christian nation.  He also at the end says something many not watch long enough to hear.  He says that not only do these preacher claim things they can’t prove he also can’t prove his god exists.  He says he teachers about faith, not proof.  He says when someone claims that he worships an invisible daddy in the sky, he can’t prove god exists.  He is OK with that.  I really respect this man.   Hugs.  Scottie

In the one below this time he explains something very important a lot of people miss.  Things that when the writers of the bible wrote about giants or Nephilim they meant fierce hard to beat warriors, not real bigger than humans giants.  He explains that the writers used phrases and ideas from their own time.  He is sort of admitting that the bible not to be taken literally and was written by humans for the people of that time.  Hugs.   Scottie

I did not think to write a blurb about the rest of the videos, I posted these before it dawned on me people might not watch them without understanding what they might be about.  If you are wondering, fast-forward towards the end of each video to see if the video strikes a nerve and I would post it.  Just remember I am an atheist and I enjoy listening to this guy.   Hugs.  Scottie

 

Midday Palate Cleanser … Elephants are better people

Midday Palate Cleanser

Hi.  Grand post, great videos, I love them.  Ten Bears and I have already talked about this here.  But MPS posted far more than I did on it.  How anyone can watch the elephants and not see thinking, loving, communicating, caring, grand beings in what we humans call a herd.  Oh how I wonder how they refer to most of us.  On one side note.  When I posted this, I referred to the man who moved under one of the larger elephants.  This is why it is important to read comments on sites, this person seen something I missed.  I marveled that the man who is a fragile creature was so comfortable being that surrounded by these huge beings.  The comment put a new view of what was happening.   Again it is so loving.  Hugs.  Scottie

w3ski4me says:
 
Elephants are way cool. They communicate, they have rituals, they protect the herd. So much we puny humans don’t understand. On another note. When the herd trotted up to the rescue truck, there was one youngish guy among the Elephants and in sandals I think. An Elephant raised a leg to shelter the human which I thought was exceptionally gentle.

w3ski

MDavis says:
Wow

She walked up and waved “here I am!” and he ducked right under her chin.

They’ve done this before. Pretty cool.

True Facts: Elephants

It’s Time for More Human/Animal Bonding

It’s Time for More Human/Animal Bonding

Thank you, Annie, for posting this.   Anyone who think other animals don’t have feelings, needs, and intelligence have never watched or been with animals.  Each to their species and their way, but I watched a video recently where they showed bees can count and recognize shapes including solving complex tasks required to get the food.   Hugs.  Scottie 

My wonderful brother Randy sent me a gift

For those that don’t know starting in 2013 my childhood abuse started to crash over me.  I struggled daily to work and keep it together but I had started to again self harm.  I would take a very sharp blade and draw it across my forearms and watch the blood flow.  Yes the feelings when I did that released good endorphins.  When Ron found out, he took to hiding knives, especially all his X Acto tools he had for the crafts he had.  But he forgot about my long time pocket knife, a jack knife I had had for a very long time.  I kept it to a razor edge.  

But in March 2014 I fell into total breakdown.  I wanted the memories to stop, I was reliving them constantly with full emotions and body feels including smells along with tastes.  I was close to choosing to end my life.  I was doing my best to hide it from Ron, but by this time I was refusing to leave my bedroom other than for my pain doctor visits, which Ron who was working 12 hour night shifts would take me to.  

This is where Randy stepped up, became my brother and maybe saved my life.  Randy had entered my life earlier and was a grand online commenter to my first blog and we formed a great friendship.  Randy is a really great writer, and anyone that has read his posts here knows he can write very well.  Far better than I can.  He started to send me his stories and I enjoyed them.   Then he sent a story about a man in a food court saving an abused child.   It triggered me into a bad episode because of the break down I was dealing with.  

I was very upset and wrote back to Randy about how his story was great and so real to life it had triggered me badly, and I was really struggling.  Randy right away reached out to me online apologizing and eventually as we kept talking he asked for my phone number.   This was before my total melt down when I started hurting my self.  Randy and I talked on the phone … which was rare for me.  One of the worst beatings I got as a kid was reaching up to the ringing wall phone and going to hand it to the adults there.   I was never to use the phone.  It was beaten into me.  Never touch the phone.  I now realized they were worried I would report my abuse.  

Randy and I got to be close friends.   Then when I started hurting my self, deeply cutting my arms, refusing to leave my bedroom, and wanted to die, Randy who was working 12 hour night shift in a hard job would have his phone on so if I felt myself slipping I could call him.   Hour after hour he talked to me, denying himself sleep as he kept me grounded.  I could call him anytime … and I did as I was about to use the knife on my skin I would put it down to pick up the phone.  I talked to him about everything I never told anyone.  I poured myself out to him and he was there.  He was the brother I really desperately need but never had growing up.  He became my brother in every way that ever matters.  

I tell all this because I have been under the weather and Ron just lost his brother.  So Randy sent me a gift.  He is a grand brother.   He sent me an insulated cup.   Here are the pictures.   Randy is one of a kind.  He does have a grand sense of humor.   I love him.  

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Careful… The Bible Is Not God

I strongly recommend everyone wondering about why there are different ideas of the Christian god.  This is why I love some Christians and pity / detest others.   The Christians looking for god, the deity, are some of the most wonderful people I have ever met.   The ones looking at the bible as god itself are some of the most horrible people I have met.  Hugs.  Scottie

The Christian/Transgender Intersection

The Rev has a wonderful way to think of being trans.  In order to be the person god wanted me to become, I must let go of what I was.  Or he rephrased, to be who god created me to be, I must leave / change who I was.  What a compassionate Christian man, a good person.   Hugs.  Scottie