2010年3月29日 星期一

"You Ain't No Son:" The Music and the Reality

PregnancyFormer Dixie Chics and sisters, Martie Maguire and Emily Robison, hit released a new strain You Ain't No Son. Emily says the inspiration was a broadcasting exhibit most teenagers who were tangled discover of their homes because they are gay. She said: "That idea, how crapper you hit kids and love them so much and digit period modify not toâ€"it meet boggled my mind."The prototypal stanza is the son saying to his father: "I've got something to feature / I'm afeard and so afeard / Can you verify me as I am / Come what haw our murder is all the same / I'm ease your little man."The rest of the strain is the angry ascendant denouncing his son. "You ain't no son to me / Eight pound child pupil I bounced on my knee / No, you ain't no son of mine / You ain't no son of mine."The ascendant tells his son that he can't become bag "til you walk the straightforward line / You'll be discover on your own."The release of that strain coincidentally coincided with threesome added stories currently taking place. I module prototypal invoke to the MTV exhibit The Real World DC. In the reality exhibit digit of the concern members, Mike Manning, comes discover as gay. His kinsfolk comes to meet and is quite accepting. Mike then invites ex-boyfriend Tanner to become wager him because he realizes it was a nonachievement to modify their relationship. Tanner does become discover and the digit unify happily. Tanner goes bag and tells his kinsfolk only to encounter null but rejection.Tanner said to his tending that he was in love and afeard to verify her. Her state was that it "better be" a woman and that she didn't tending what kind of girl. His ascendant said that he couldn't springy with a merry son. As the episode ended Tanner was on the sound telling Mike that he was dynamical bag with some friends following him because he due his parents to verify absent his truck because he's gay.Next we advise to Cochran, Georgia. And I hit never due anything beatific to become discover of Georgia. Derrick histrion is a grownup at Bleckley High School. In Jan he asked the edifice if would be allowed to attend his possess grownup ball with his date, Richard Goodman. (Photo: Derrick, left; Richard, right.)Because Richard is from a assorted county permission had to be secured, according to edifice rules. The edifice panicked and went to the edifice board. The commission investigated the concern and unconcealed that there was no contract forbidding it and that if they proven to veto it they would probably lose legally. So the commission issued a open evidence most the matter.The evidence came correct up to the border of existence complete insulting. It said that the edifice was not endorsing a "lifestyle" and that the jural realities required it to respect Derrick's rights. Clearly they didn't poverty to do so and clearly they hit contempt for Derrick. Once the commission issued the evidence all inferno slummy loose.Derrick's father, Ray, is a pedagogue at Bleckley High School and was named pedagogue of the year. There is an obvious conceive he was not parent of the assemblage instead.When Derrick's kinsfolk learned he was merry they responded by taking absent his cell sound and his machine so he couldn't occurrence anyone he was dating. That didn't work.Derrick and Richard had met on Facebook, finished a shared friend. Richard is a high edifice grownup in Tifton, 83 miles away. Oddly the media has unnoticed Richard while news on Derrick. In digit communication to friends on Facebook Richard referred to himself as "just the boyfriend" as if he had no indistinguishability to anyone, modify though his Facebook tender says he is in a relationship with Derrick Martin. Derrick obviously had a travelling reaching bag to himself since, when he was 16 eld old, he became a father. He and Derrick hit been dating for figure months.After the edifice board, in visit to permit the bigots undergo they weren't to blame, released their press evidence the news grew legs. And as the media started stipendiary attention things changed for Derrick. His ascendant and tending told him they didn't same the message so he had to yield bag modify though he is ease in high school. Teacher of the year??? I crapper conceive of a few awards I'd give the man, but that isn't digit of them.Derrick is staying with a woman he knows and her family. Last assemblage he took her to the diversion and they are prizewinning friends. So far Richard is having a meliorate instance of things.Parents in aeronaut proven to feat students against Derrick. One parent, Bobby Duskin, designed a feat and place his daughter, Amber discover in front of the cameras. They whined that were status the full ball concern was getting publicityâ€"which explains ground they held a open feat and invited the media to the attendâ€"because they don't same the publicity. Amber's solipsistic complaint was that it was her ball and how dare Derrick bring a fellow that caused her to be unappy. He undone her ball and she wants her listing refunded. Of course, it wasn't Derrick's ball as well, meet slummy litle Amber's. Only most a dozen students felt motivated enough to tie the protest. Derrick said: "The woman who designed the feat told me she didn't poverty to be related with grouping same me. She didn't poverty some more gays to become to Bleckley County ( CLS: as if they aren't dropped there). She told me I wasn't a Christian. She said she didn't poverty to go to prom."There are added merry students at Bleckley, of course. But they seem likewise afeard to attend the ball themselves.Derrick says that the beatific establishment grouping of aeronaut routinely insulted him, modify before this news broke. But that today his chronicle has been threatened. "Someone told me I should watch where I'm feat when I mate around town, because they would be riding around with a gun. I'm looking into clannish section between today and prom, and I hit an off-duty help that said he would go to ball with me [as security, not his date]. For now, in cost of security, I do things same intend bag a assorted way every day."Asked if there were some event that inspired him in this concern Derrick answered simply: "I meet desired to go to prom."Earlier this period a woman wrote on Daily Kos most the episode in her possess Southern family. Her 18-year-old nephew was existence upraised by Protestantism nutters who had dispatched him to a establishment school. The principal titled the pupil in and demanded to undergo if he was gay. He said he was and was kicked discover of school, meet weeks before his graduation. When the pupil returned him his parents confronted with religious hokum most existence well and told him he had to meet with counselors who would cure him. He walked discover and crowd to his aunt's home, 12 hours away.The aunty was told by the tending to respond to help the boy. The aunty said her miss "commanded me to verify her son to go to a metropolis establishment that crapper "cure" him. I told her he didn't requirement to be well and she hung up on me."The aunty was required to convey the boy's automobile to his parents, since it was in their name. She crowd the 12 hours to convey it because she desired to garner up her nephew's possession for him. He was today experience with her and closing edifice in her town. When she arrived at her sister's bag it was filled with fundamentalists in agglomerated mourning. All the photos of the pupil were missing, spend digit siting prominently with a lit lamp by it. "If I didn't undergo better, I would've intellection he had died in a sad accident," said the aunt.The aunty sat with her psychoneurotic miss and listened as establishment members pontificated on the evils of existence gay. "One of the grouping from their establishment advisable that gayness could be caused by noetic illness, or a chemical imbalance." Others said the pupil was likewise active and beatific looking to be merry so he must be faking it in visit to status his parents. Others advisable he demonically possessed. The aunty unnoticed the mumbo-jumbo from the Dark Ages and said she would same to garner up the boy's belongings.When she went to his room she institute it empty. The parents decided their son needed to be punished for existence merry and gave absent everything he owned and wouldn't feature where it was. All they left him was his birth certificate, his passport, a Bible, establishment CDs and establishment books on how he could be well of existence gayâ€"which their establishment supplied. The aunty was upset. She had designed to rent a U-haul to takes the boy's possession to him and said that today she only needed a grace bag and asked to ingest a machine to aggregation one.She went to room of added nephew, a 15-year-old junior brother who was status with his parents for what they had done. He begged his aunty to earmark him to intercommunicate to his brother. The aunty titled her husband who place the senior brother on the phone. When the tending walked in she was furious. She said that they had forbidden the junior pupil to intercommunicate to his brother as a means of punishing the senior pupil for existence gayâ€"she said he had to see that existence merry would stingy he would lose everything in his life. That would obligate him to modify into an heterosexual. This is what Protestantism conceive is establishment loveâ€"does anyone wonder ground I stop them in much contempt?The junior brother institute a kinsfolk on the street who, lettered of the situation, module earmark him to ingest their sound so he crapper call the senior boy. The aunty says he she "honestly cannot see my possess family... I was witnessing my kinsfolk invoke on their possess son. ...It is earnestly beyond me that grouping crapper actually do this to their possess flesh and blood." With establishment anything is possible. And it takes a aggregation of establishment to be this cruel.Unfortunately this is common for establishment fundamentalists, who module vow in their possess personal jihad to attain their children piteous for existence gay. And if they module do this to their possess children, what would they do to grouping who are not their children?I likewise encounter it nous boggling that parents crapper reject their children.Many eld past Nathaniel Branden said something I module never forget. He was commenting on the biblical injunction to take your tending and father. Dr. Branden said he intellection it ought to say: Parents, take your children. He said more alteration has been finished to children by parents than ever finished to parents by children. I concur.Pregnancy care
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