Over the next 43 minutes (you have to love being able to fast forward through the commercials), I felt my stomach drop and I became physically ill. If I didn't love my TV so much, I would have probably broken it by throwing everything in my room at this woman and all of the anti-gay comments. My partner kept coming to check on me because I was so angry. I knew I should feel sorry for her and her ignorance, but I was just plain everyday angry. She kept saying it isn't personal...How can you not think it is personal? You are saying what we are all about and love, is wrong and you will do what you can to prevent our lifestyle. SERIOUSLY??
I can feel my blood boil as I post this. I don't think gay/lesbian parenting/adoption is her only problem, but she is anti-gay. She doesn't think the children should know what being gay is, much less let them decide if they want to tell people about having two dads. She is defensive, rude and does not take a moment to genuinely listen and understand. She thinks b/c children are being raised in a gay home, that they may themselves think it is okay to be gay because of their "training". SERIOUSLY?? Who brain washed this woman? She not only just did not listen, she now is saying that b/c you live with a gay parent you are being trained. SERIOUSLY? That is odd because, I would say the majority of gay/lesbians out there, where raised in a heterosexual home. I love that one of the children of gay parents, totally stood up to her. Bravo, tough girlie.
She thinks these guys are wonderful and providing parents, but there is an "icky factor" because the definition of gay is two men sleeping together. The fact that children down the hall while they are sleeping together, she thinks is wrong. What they hell do you think they are doing? An orgy? Seriously? It is no different than you sleeping down the hall from your children.
They took her to church, and she looks pissed the whole time, She wants church rules, she does not think children should have free ideas. Any time she is tested on her believes, she can't back it up...she just gets pissed and says that it is not right.
She turned on a woman who talks about not having rights to her child b/c she was not the biological mother. She said that two women do not have the right to have children. Who is she to say that?
She also makes a comment that she will "try to appear happy" when she goes to a lesbian mother BBQ. She said so many ignorant things in this show that I am afraid I could write about it for days. She went into this show with an unopened mind and she left the same way. I just saw her defend her beliefs and hold tight to what “her god” says is right but never really listens to what all-different groups (including people raised in the system and never adopted) had to say. It was almost like a contest to see if she could hold to her beliefs against everyone else and she might win a prize in heaven.
Not only does this ignorant, rude woman just piss me off, I watch them interview people who say they are "experts" and authors. There are no proven facts to back up these horrible claims and there was no one to show a counter side to these statements. They just allowed fiction to be said without backing up with facts.
GLAAD—the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation sent out a mass email urging “community members” to contact FX Networks to protest statements made by an anti-gay activist Spurlock interviews during the show. GLAAD, which once gave an award to 30 Days, says…
Regrettably, the episode also features a defamatory statement by Peter Sprigg of the Family Research Council, an anti-gay activist organization, who claims: “Homosexuality is associated with higher rates of sexual promiscuity, sexually transmitted diseases, mental illness, substance abuse, domestic violence, and child sexual abuse, and those are all reasons for us to be concerned about placing children into that kind of setting.” While there is no credible scientific research that backs Sprigg’s claim—and much that disputes it—the episode presents his assertion as if it was fact and offers no credible social science experts or child health authorities to challenge Sprigg’s assertion. Indeed, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Psychological Association, the Child Welfare League of America, and many other child health and social services authorities who support parenting by qualified lesbian and gay parents dispute Sprigg’s claim.
There was also:
Dawn Stefanowicz, a woman that wrote a book about living with a gay parent—her biological father—after he came out of the closet in the 1970s. This woman’s father talked to her about bathhouse sex “at the kitchen table,” and dragged her to a “downtown sex shop.” She assumes that the horrible things that happen to her were because her father was gay, not because it was just a crappy father. How would it have been different if he had a girlfriend and still did the same things. He was just a horrible father and she got screwed. Get a therapist and get over your homophobia.
I am exhausted now.
They talk about how we are not allowed to do this and not allowed to do that.... who decides that? Who are they to judge us and our lives? Isn't being religious about giving love and accepting? Work on yourself b/c I can tell you need it.
Isn't there a little thing about people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones?
If you want to see the video for yourself, you can check it out at:
http://video.aol.com/partner/hulu/30-days-same-sex-parenting/_LYLJLiketb7vBTHoXJYf3h0AYYJe50p
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