Three's company when a new family settles in for a quiet holiday.

[Ian David]

Home Alone
Three's company when a new family settles in for a quiet holiday.

By David Valdes Greenwood | December 11, 2005

Despite what gay-marriage foes say, we're hardly extremists at my house - more Waltons than Weather Underground. But we are, nonetheless, about to stage a truly radical action: We're staying home for the holidays.

Most couples in their 20s and 30s will recognize the extremity of our proposed course of action. Hanging stockings in our own home will fly in the face of the de facto traditions promoted by older relatives everywhere. For years, celebrating the holidays has meant hitting the road for us, because we were The Young People, and childless to boot, expected at the drop of a turkey dinner to make the trip over the river and through the woods to grand-mother's (or mother's or aunt's) house.

Even after we bought our first home, it never occurred to our relatives that the road to holiday fun runs both ways. Each year, we dutifully unplugged our tree, stuffed presents into luggage, and drove or flew to the home of whichever Not Young Person had rights to that year's gathering.

Moreover, with his-and-his families to cover - and divorce further subdividing clans - we had three sets of relatives to please and only two major holidays to try to spread around. That meant one family always got stuck with a random weekend between Thanksgiving and Christmas - call it Thanksmas, if you will. No matter how far we traveled to see them at these times, whichever family had to settle always felt slighted and, a full year in advance, laid claim to the real deal for the next year.

This year, however, we are overthrowing the old tradition. We will gather our small family around our own tree on Christmas Eve and sleep in our own beds as Santa spreads consumerism from chimney to chimney. On Christmas Day, we will sip cups of espresso (or formula, depending on the age of the Valdes Greenwood involved) and loll about in our living room, refusing to dress for the day. This is such a stunning change in our universe that it would not surprise me to look up and see pigs, not reindeer, flying ahead of Santa's sleigh.

More:
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/magazine/articles/2005/12/11/home_alone/



And here is what the anti-gay Marxist fag-hag Brian Camenker at Article 8 Alliance has to say about the article:

Tuesday, December 13, 2005
Boston Globe Normalizing the Abnormal Again
Read this from the Boston Globe and tell us you're not disturbed by the picture of this "happy family": Two "married" dads and their newly adopted baby girl home for Christmas. (WHO is running the adoption agencies?!)

From the Globe Sunday Magazine (Dec. 11), in their series called "COUPLING" ...(Now what vision does that conjure up, speaking of homosexual men?) ... "Home Alone: Three's company when a new family settles in for a quiet holiday":

Link to hate-group intentionally left out.



And the response from MassResistance Watch:


Tuesday, December 13, 2005
A Picture of Love

I haven't posted about Massresistance/Article 8 in awhile because their posts have just gotten so weird and strange that commenting on them would give them some tiny piece of credibility (Christian Polygamy? Window Models?). However, I felt I had to comment on today's post. You see, once again, Ms. Massresistance is trying to "shame" a family featured in the GLOBE.

She only succeeds in showing everyone how wonderful this couple are. She posts about the joy that one family is feeling for their first Christmas with their new child. This is what she calls abnormal, a man talking about how they (the couple) are staying home (and not visiting relatives) because they are taking their daughter's comfort into consideration, abnormal?

As always, it wouldn't be a Massresistance post without her focusing on sex:

From the Globe Sunday Magazine (Dec. 11), in their series called "COUPLING" ...(Now what vision does that conjure up, speaking of homosexual men?) ... "Home Alone: Three's company when a new family settles in for a quiet holiday":

Well maybe I'm the odd one but an article about Coupling in the Globe Magazine brings to mind a loving couple (yes, it IS about love). I guess for some people, all they focus on is sex, (you should really see a therapist for that) I see two wonderful men who adopted an unwanted child, I guess you could call them pro-life.

More:
http://massresistancewatch.blogspot.com/2005/12/picture-of-love.html

[BR_Parkway]

1. Only a wingnut would point out how something looks like sex all

the time, but miss the irony of themselves being totally focused on sex all the time. You're right, once again, they take something beautiful and try to turn it into trash for their fundraising.

Isn't there some way to have these folks declared terrorists under the Patriot Act? They sure go out of their way to try to terrorize a group of Americans that just want to be treated like all other Americans. Sure sounds like a domestic terror threat to democracy to me.

Which philosopher said:

"That which we do not conquer, conquers us"

Seems to sum up all these "straight protectors" being so worried about how gay folks are going to 'rub off' on them, or 'shove something down their throats'

Lord knows, if it really was contagious, there's more than one fine little straight boy I'd have rubbed off on, trying to make him catch it.

[xchrom]

2. ''straight'' white people can point to irony

but they can't live it.

well, not until this becomes a majority hispanic/latino country that is.

[Maat]

3. What a lovely family!

Sending positive energy their way.

As to the 'Article 8' person, I wonder what carrying around all of that hate inside is doing to her health? The evitable consequence of that is sickness ..