With very few exceptions I stay clear of politics on my blog. Sure I discuss it with my wife and my dearest best friend who drives me absolutely insane by not being registered to vote.

But for the last 2 Presidential Elections (including our upcoming) I find myself voting not only with what I believe to be right for our country but personal heartfelt emotions.

Today, catching up on blog posts and Joanne browsing for blogs she’d like to read, I found a post about Mitt Romney that makes me straight out hate the man.

I have one personal issue, gay marriage.

It’s not that I actually WANT to get married. It’s that I, as a tax paying, law abiding, upstanding citizen of the United States of America have rights. And not just what you straight people are going to tell me my rights are but to be treated FAIR and EQUAL just as everyone else is!

You see, when asked about gay marriage he said the following:

“For those who are not familiar with it, of the four nationally leading candidates for president — and I count myself as one of those, but also Mayor (Rudy) Giuliani, and Sen. (John) McCain and (former Sen.) Fred Thompson — there’s only one of us who’s in favor of a federal amendment to the constitution to limit marriage to the relationship between a man and a woman. And that’s me.”

“I feel very strongly about this because, as I said earlier, I believe that maintaining the strength of the marriage relationship, the family relationship, is critical to the strength of an entire society.”

“And I believe that the development of children is enhanced by having a male and a female as part of their upbringing in their home. Even when there’s a divorce, you still have a mom and a dad. And even where one member of the partnership may pass away, the memory and the characteristics of that gender, of that partner influence the development of a child.”

“I’m in favor of promoting, as a society, the marriage of men and women and the development of children in that kind of setting.”

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This jerk running for President actually believes and said in public to a bunch of college students in Decorah, Iowa that having a dead parent is better than having homosexual parents. Because the presence of the other gender that used to be in the house is better than two parents of the same gender.

Why do I need to be married or in a relationship with a man to give Zadey a male role model she can look up?

Zadey has three active Uncles in her life and 2 Grandfathers (one who represents what a man should be and one who represents what a man shouldn’t be). Why would having a “father” be any better than these men?

Uncle Steve, Uncle Doug, Uncle Cameron, Papa, and Grandpa these men represent so many varying aspects of men.

Steve is single at 39 and lives his life carefree. He’s an amazing influence in her life because he not only was adopted by my parents but couldn’t care less about being adopted. He’s sees her more than anyone else because we just lives a few miles from him.

Doug is a US Army veteran and is a hardcore, in love with his job solider. He’ll show her the both sides of being patriotic and will give her a more real sense of pride and politics than anyone else in her life.

Cameron is a very committed husband and a hard working blue collar man earning his living and supporting his wife by working in the oil fields. He’s incredibly sweet, sensitive and loving.

Papa ate food out of a trashcan as a young boy and worked his way to being successful. He’s got the most amazing stories of her Grandparents that he’ll share with pride. His worth ethic, even at 60 is more than anyone else I’ve seen. He’ll be able to teach her how to keep herself in shape, love her family, and keep the world around her moving while having a great head on her shoulders.

Grandpa (Joanne’s Dad) will show her the result of spending your entire life working as a day laborer. He’ll be the follow-up to the solider to show how a war (Vietnam) can change your entire life in a single day. He’ll be the reason that she lives a sober life as she’ll never want to have the same alcoholic tendencies.

With these amazing dynamics of men in our families, I ask you, how would a man in my life give her a better perspective on the world?

Instead, without one, she’ll understand that it’s okay for a family to be different. That men can love men and women can love women and that there is no set standard for what makes a family.

She’ll learn that pride is fighting for what’s right and what you believe in when she’s told that her Mothers are sinners. She’ll be stronger for understanding the varying aspects of people that make this world go round.

She can one day, choose to be influential by fighting for rights and understanding both sides of the token, especially if she turns out to be a straight woman.

Who can reject a Mother’s love? She’s got it twice and while at times that may be hard for her, in the end she’s going to know no boundaries for love, friendship, and caring.

So I ask you, what makes me so wrong? Why is having a dead parent better than what Zadey’s got in her homosexual absolutely outstanding family?

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