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Picture from Prop 8 Day of Decision Rally
(© Julie Bernstein, funcrunchphoto)

*facepalm*
Look, I don’t care if you’re gay.
I really couldn’t give two shits less if you’re doing another guy or another girl or a tranny or what the fuck ever.

But I have serious fucking issues with indoctrination and using CHILDREN whom have no idea what they’re parading for to help sell your viewpoint.

And this applies to EVERYONE who ever could be in a rally.
Children+politics=me pissed the fuck off.

i guess it really depends, i mean how do you know they dont know? ive seen plenty of children tapes saying that “if two people love each other they should be able to get married, even if they have the same junk” or something along those lines

The odds of the kids actually have at least a basic understanding of what the signs mean increases exponentially if their parents are gay, because these kids are the real victims of prop 8, which stripped away the ability to get married in California but did nothing to parenting rights.

That leaves these kids with parents who can never get married and never get the rights that their friend’s parents may have, and basically gives other kids a license to bully them specifically because of how different their parents are forced to be.

Not being able to get married sucks, but being a kid with two parents that legally cannot get married sucks even harder because it’s like the government, who they are taught is fair, is saying the people that take care of them are not good enough to be considered equal.

And you can’t make the point that “I don’t know that their parents are gay,” because you don’t know that they are straight. You’re just making an assumption.

Furthermore, it’s not their fault if your childhood was spent blind to political issues. My parents talked to me extensively about different political events and viewpoints when I was a kid and encouraged me to form my own decision. I was pro-choice before I was in middle school because I didn’t see why someone should be forced to have a baby. Some kids DO understand politics. Maybe not to the same level as adults, obviously, but enough to make their own decision on things.

I’m just saying, don’t assume every instance of a child in a political setting are being indoctrinated into things they don’t have an understanding of. You’re not giving them enough credit. This isn’t the 1950s. This is 2012, and kids are more informed than you seem to realize. ESPECIALLY now that the internet is so commonplace.

So please, consider the possibility that they actually understand that marriage is being denied to a certain group of people just because they are different.

I mean, shit, even Disney films teach kids about how bad it is to feel bullied for being who you are. This is the one basic issue that kids probably understand BEST. It’s all about being bullied! Being told you’re not good enough, being pushed around by people that think they’re stronger than you.

A lot of kids really do get it. I know I did, before I was even aware that I was actually into guys that way. I was just raised in a household where my parents talked to me about different issues. They didn’t push their opinions on me, they told me about both sides of the matter, but they encouraged me by helping me become informed at an early age, so I could always be true to my beliefs and not be tricked into going with what I perceived as the status qou.

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