Martha said:
Sorry, kind of off topic.
not off topic at all. children have become the code word for the intolerant right. it started innocently enough with those cute soccer mom car "child on board" signs, implying, i suppose, that you should be more careful around their car than around mine, as if i'm not even my mother's child. maybe not so cute, rather, maybe simply incredibly selfish.
taken to extreme, for the far right, the unborn "child"'s life, becomes not only more important than you, a stranger, but even more important than its own mother's ongoing life.
for the standard run-of-the-mill-intolerant right, the child has become the flag of so-called morality. the child must have a mother and a father, so gays are unfit for parenting the child. and if gays can not raise children, well, there's really no good reason in all of god's creation to let them marry.
talk of children off topic on the topic of tolerance? you might think so. but here in the good ol' usofa, hardly.