Gay Families Plan Easter at White House

AP ^ | 01/20/06 | By DAVID CRARY

[conservative physics]

you think it will be OK if the fags show up in drag for EASTER !

[popdonnelly]

I think if they're old enough to know they're homosexuals, they're too old for an Easter egg roll! Why don't they try going to a ball game?

[ccwoman]

My thoughts exactly!!

[H. Paul Pressler IV]

The White House should Limit this event to only 'legitimate' heterosexual 'nuclear' families.

1. Each Family must consist of at least one child and a mother and father.

2. Neither the mother or father can have a child from a previous relationship or have ever been divorced.

3. Each child at the event must have been conceived while the mom and dad were married to each other. In other words no illegitimate kids.

[vikingd00d]

>>I think if they're old enough to know they're homosexuals, they're too old for an Easter egg roll! Why don't they try going to a ball game?

Be careful what you suggest. Gays have a different notion of "taking the kids to a ball game" than you do.

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

I think it is pitiful that the WH must allow this because that means all those little children will be exposed to "gay couples" pretending to be normal couples. I can just hear the questions coming from those tots on their drive home. How incredibly sad that you have to explain to little children what this nasty thing is all about.

What a lie "it's just about what two people do in the privacy of their own bedroom" turned out to be.

[Our man in washington]

No, but if they want to make jerks out of themselves, they will earn the scorn of most of the nation. That's why:

1. I think they won't.
2. They'll regret it if they do. Ruining children's events is not the way to get sympathy for your cause.

[Our man in washington]

Should we tell little five year-old Suzie that she can't participate because her mother is lesbian?

You do that, you lose the propaganda war. You ignore it and let the gays and lesbians make fools out of themselves if they so choose, you win the propaganda war.

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

Yes well you can play that game both ways. The WH should allow Muslim or Mormon families with multiple wives. Etc. This is precisely why sodomy should have stayed illegal. It is about way more than bedroom activities. Now, if you want to take your tot to the WH for an Easter egg hunt, you've got to explain to him what homosexual means. How sad. And the kid will never understand why two men can have a child. Why should you even have to be at this event with your tot and explain to him what two women are kissing, holding hands, or whatever? Etc.

Maybe they should allow only one parent per household to attend. At least the little tots won't be getting an eyeful of who knows what.

[kcvl]

NOT POLITICAL?!!!

For three years Jennifer Chrisler was a stay-at-home mom for her twin sons, but now she and her partner, Cheryl Jacques, are sharing more child-rearing duties as they both pursue high-profile careers.

“We have become a two-parent working household,” said Chrisler, who was recently appointed executive director for the Family Pride Coalition.

Jacques, who is a former president of the Human Rights Campaign and a state senator for Massachusetts, will not assume the duties of primary care giver for their twin boys, Tommy and Timmy, ages 3, Chrisler said. The lesbian activist’s work speaking and writing on the issues of gay rights and politics consumes her workdays since she left the national gay rights group’s employment last year, she said.

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Chrisler said that she had worked as a freelance money-raiser and volunteer for political campaigns and other projects before, but she was always able to spend a significant amount of time at home to take care of their sons. That will change when she begins work at the Family Pride Coalition’s offices in Washington, D.C. in April.

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“What I want to do as the new executive director is to build on the very strong foundation that has been laid,” Chrisler said. “We need to make sure that our community is aware of the programming we provide … to best go about bringing equality to our families.”

Chrisler said she believes that when other American citizens come to realize that most members of the GLBT community share common concerns, equality will soon be achieved.

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Chrisler said. “That bridge to the larger American community is really happening so strongly through GLBT families.”

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Jacques said. “She is going to take this organization to new heights.”

http://tinyurl.com/9jdw2

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

So innocent children get eyefuls of gayness just so the WH can win a propaganda war? Pitiful!!!!!!

Why not make the event for orphan kids anyway. It seems like everyone wins that way.

[Reddy]

Oh, you are sooooo funny. Ha ha ha ha

I suppose you think the WH should invite NAMBLA, since there will be lots of kids there.

[kcvl]

1st photo: Jennifer Chrisler, executive director of Family Pride, her partner Cheryl Jacques, their twin sons and Chrisler's mother-in-law

After a busy day of registration and orientation on Saturday, we screened the just-released “transparent,” a documentary about female-to-male transgender parents who had given birth to their children.

On Sunday, our annual Family Parade was a sight to see – beautiful children and parents with their wonderful signs processed down Commercial Street, and circled back down Bradford, concluding at Bas Relief Park for an impromptu rally led by Family Pride’s Executive Director Jennifer Chrisler.

[kcvl]

Jacques, 42, and her partner of nearly seven years, Jennifer Chrisler, 33, were married in a Boston hotel in a ceremony presided over by sister-in-law Katherine Jacques, a justice of the peace, and their friend, the Rev. Miriam Gelfer, an Episcopal priest. The happy couple were walked down the aisle by their twin sons, Timmy and Tommy, 2, and Jacques's father, Norman


Photo at link below

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38137-2004Aug3.html

[visualops]

Turn it into a circus.

ERROR!

Don't stoop to their level. You'll lose.

[H. Paul Pressler IV]

If I were to go to such an event I would all the families there to be just like mine.

Neither my nor my wife's parents have ever been divorced.

Neither my wife or I have ever been divorced.

Each of our children were conceived after we were married.
I define family by my standards and the WH should do the same.

[tflabo]

Love does NOT make a family.

GOD makes a family, as described in His Word.

So therefore let them come to the easter egg roll. Hand out copies of the Ten Commandments, Bibles, Jesus loves you and died for you stickers. Include handout tracts with scriptures that condemn sexual perversion and homosexuality. No fuss or muss....love em, let em roll the eggs and let God's word do the talking. Game over.

[visualops]

2. Neither the mother or father can have a child from a previous relationship or have ever been divorced.

That's ridiculous and uncharitable.

[kcvl]

WHEN STATE SENATOR Cheryl Jacques announced her candidacy for Congress in her hometown of Needham on July 15, she did so with the help of political stagecraft right out of the family-values handbook.

Jacques was just the second out gay or lesbian candidate to run for an open congressional seat in Massachusetts, following in the footsteps of Susan Tracy, who made an unsuccessful bid to succeed Joe Kennedy in the Eighth District in 1998. (Barney Frank and the now-retired Gerry Studds came out only after they had been in office for several terms.) Moreover, by giving her partner, Jennifer Chrisler, such a visible role, Jacques broke ground by offering an image of gay family life as one of her political bona fides. It wasn’t just that Jacques introduced Chrisler at her announcement or hired her to be her finance director. There was the annual Pride parade, held just before the congressional race, in which Jacques — the grand marshal — rode with Chrisler in a convertible and waved. There have also been the neighborhood meet-and-greets, at which Jacques and Chrisler, according to witnesses, worked the crowds like an old married couple.

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the only time Jacques’s personal life became an issue was when the media, led by the Boston Herald, reported that Chrisler’s salary had risen by 92 percent during the four and a half years she had worked in Jacques’s office, and that Chrisler and Jacques’s brother Tom had lived for a time in a below-market-rate apartment for senior citizens.

http://tinyurl.com/dmjqr

[kcvl]

Chrisler said some “fringe groups” have attacked them. “The right always gets very concerned when LGBT parents show up with their children,” she said. “The more we are the same, the less potent the arguments are for discriminating against us.”


To sign up for the egg roll visit www.familypride.org/eggroll.