I do think it's remarkably petty and parochial to only approve equal treatment when a member of your own family is being oppressed.
See, people keep saying this, and then I feel like an asshole for being glad that he's supporting his son. I don't think he's suddenly become an awesome politician, so if the question is about him as a Senator, well, his record is shitty, and I await future decisions to see if this makes any difference.
But I think it's fantastic that he supports his son.
I guess I'm focusing on the wrong thing. Oh well.
It may be great for him as a person to be supportive of his son; however, unless that directly impacts how he votes from this point onward I feel no obligation to extend him professional respect.
Dear co-workers, if you can't figure out what a document refers to because you think the information on it is incomplete, why do you think sending me just one piece of information from the whole document will be enough to let me figure it out?
This kind of reminds me of people who lose their faith in God because a loved one dies unexpectedly. People's loved ones die unexpectedly all the time, so it seems weird to me when it only affects people's faith when it happens to them.
Steph, you're totally correct that he should be supporting his son. But you know, that's like, the baseline. That should be expected. I shouldn't have to give the guy a cookie for supporting his son. He's his son, after all.
Supporting your gay son should not be worthy of comment, you know?
In other news, I read this amazing story about the artifacts that people leave at the Wall in DC:
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Steph, you're totally correct that he should be supporting his son. But you know, that's like, the baseline. That should be expected. I shouldn't have to give the guy a cookie for supporting his son. He's his son, after all.
Yeah, I don't think he deserves a cookie, because it IS the baseline. But he was shitty before, and changed his mind, so that makes me glad. I feel like I should be wanting to wave a pitchfork at him.
Gah. This makes me sound like I think he's an awesome dude and fantastic politician, when that's not what I mean. I just mean, when someone was shitty before and genuinely changes their mind, I think that's a great thing.
Okay, I'm going to stop posting about this, because it sounds like I'm all Yay Homophobe Woo!, when I'm not.
Not at all, Steph, you're right.
My feeling is this is great news for his next Thanksgiving, but he wasn't elected to Congress to represent the interests of his immediate family. Show me the voting record.
I'm with you, Teppy. I am glad he changed his mind and is public about it, because that's a plus, but the fact he only changed because it's his son is problematic. So I'm 100% glad/disapproving.
