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CBSNews.com Hypes YouTube Video of Little Boy Understanding, Approving of Same-sex Marriage

By Ken Shepherd | July 13, 2011 | 11:30

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"It's a talking point so overused it's almost a trope by this point," CBSNews.com's Bailey Johnson groused in a July 11 "The Feed" blog post: "How will I explain this [same-sex marriage] to my children?"

"Obviously that's a question parents have to answer for themselves. Unless they don't explain anything and let the children work things out for themselves. What would that look like?" Johnson asked, answering her own question by setting up a YouTube video that has since been pulled for copyright violations (you can still find the full original here and embedded below):

 

It might look a little something like this classic video, where a young boy named Calen meets his first gay couple - without knowing what "gay" could be.

The innocence and uncomplicated perspective of children really shouldn't surprise us anymore, and yet it always does. Husbands are boys, wives are girls. So two men would be... two husbands. Makes sense.

Anyway, I'm going to play ping pong now.

Of course, little Calen also proclaimed the "two husbands" marital union to be "funny."

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

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Blade Sling

Submitted by bkeyser on Wed, 07/13/2011 - 11:37am.

Funny queer, not funny ha ha.

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I was thinking of that line

Submitted by Ken Shepherd on Wed, 07/13/2011 - 11:44am.

I was thinking of that line too!


 

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The kid sounded complacent to me

Submitted by BTW Biological ... on Wed, 07/13/2011 - 11:45am.

He acted like he didn't care and had better things to do like play ping pong. Now adults have to constantly be asked "what do you think of gay marriage or do you support gay marriage" in validation of it they are a moral person or not. So for now on my answer will be "that's funny, I'm going to to play ping pong now"

Everyone who smiles in your face is not a friend.
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Yucky

Submitted by Lamdog on Wed, 07/13/2011 - 11:46am.

He probably still think kissing girl is yucky. I wonder which change as he gets older? Always go after the children...

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CBS should BE ASHAMED!.....

Submitted by OldJarhead77 on Wed, 07/13/2011 - 11:51am.

We know their not but they SHOULD BE they EXPLOITED A BOY to do their dirty work..... again CBS wants to be first in line to be Barrys favorite "Prison wives"

Liberals: No Morals, No Standards, NO Problem!
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The boy stood on the burning

Submitted by Jack Bauer on Wed, 07/13/2011 - 11:58am.

The boy stood on the burning deck,
Wishing he'd never been born.
His sister said you wouldn't have been
if daddy had married a Shawn. 


All of the above Mr Obama? --- How about ALL OF THE BELOW, instead.
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Pow!

Submitted by Rukus on Wed, 07/13/2011 - 1:51pm.

Spot on! Good one Jack.

_____________________________________________________________ I'm not too drunk to dance! It's just that people keep stepping on my hands!
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thanks rukus!

Submitted by Jack Bauer on Thu, 07/14/2011 - 5:36am.

thanks rukus!


All of the above Mr Obama? --- How about ALL OF THE BELOW, instead.
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Look gay people are generally

Submitted by buddyc on Wed, 07/13/2011 - 12:04pm.

Look gay people are generally nice people. However their sexual activities are something I do not want to hear about and I especially don't want to hear about how "normal" it is. You can be assured that no CBS employee's children will be taught and encouraged to be gay. No way no how. This is all for show and because they could care less about john q public. Rest assured that they teach their own children something entirely different.

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Agreed. The gay folks I know

Submitted by Jack Bauer on Wed, 07/13/2011 - 12:09pm.

Agreed. The gay folks I know or have met tend to be nice and fun to be with!

One of my best friends is gay (honest)... been out since he was 18. Traditional mum and dad have accepted him fully.... and he's more "anti-gay" culture than me!

Hates it.


All of the above Mr Obama? --- How about ALL OF THE BELOW, instead.
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It's far worse than you can imagine:

Submitted by stage9 on Wed, 07/13/2011 - 12:30pm.

Yes, we are indoctrinating children, says New York h o m o s e x u a l magazine
http://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen/11b/homo_admission.html

California Bill SB48: Would require public schools & textbooks to portray h o m o s e x u a l i t y and t r a n s g e n d e r i s m in positive light!
http://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen/11b/CA_bill_SB48/index.html

Graphic h o m o s e x u a l s e x flier given to kids at state-supported "youth pride" event
http://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen/11b/youth_pride/bisexual_pamphlet...

"Old Navy" stores now selling "g a y pride" shirts. Donating percentage of sales to radical h o m o s e x u a l group targeting kids.
http://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen/11b/Old_Navy_pride/index.html

On s e x issues in elementary school: "Goal is to reach kids before they absorb their parents values," says school administrator!
http://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen/11a/herald_sex-ed_032411.html

Support traditional marriage? 'You're d e a d'
Story:
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=317681

Motion for Judgment:
(http://www.jamesmadisoncenter.org/cases/files/2011/06/209-Plaintiffs-Mot...) pdf

Sometimes you have to look beyond the window dressing.

"If God is dead, somebody is going to have to take his place. It will be megalomania or erotomania, the drive for power or the drive for pleasure, the clenched fist or the phallus, Hitler or Hugh Hefner." — Malcolm Muggeridge

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I didn't see the video

Submitted by Tugboat Phil on Wed, 07/13/2011 - 12:05pm.

Did the mom explain what is is that homosexuals do to qualify as being gay? After all, just saying you're one doesn't make you one. You have to perform a physical act to switch teams. How about just showing gay porn in all the first grade classes across the country. Anyone that doesn't fully accept it will be treated to several years in the reeducation camp.

President Obama is a Muslim (from his own lips), Kenyan (read it from his publicist) a homosexual (read it on a news magazine cover) and a Socialist (I'm alive and can see it for myself)
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Did anyone bother mention to

Submitted by jdhawk on Wed, 07/13/2011 - 12:11pm.

Did anyone bother mention to the little tyke that if these two were the norm, he wouldn't be here?
No, didn't think so.

I think he is a "dick," too!

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Makes sense?

Submitted by stage9 on Wed, 07/13/2011 - 12:23pm.

"The innocence and uncomplicated perspective of children really shouldn't surprise us anymore, and yet it always does. Husbands are boys, wives are girls. So two men would be... two husbands. Makes sense."

Makes sense? To whom? Most children intuitively know that a male couple are not "husbands". I actually tested my OWN children on this subject and they set the record straight quite emphatically, going so far to saying the idea was crazy that two men could marry. And I have never ONCE informed them one way or the other on the subject. The only way this absurd idea can EVER be justified is to willfully jettison common sense that even a 6 and 8 years old understands intuitively.

But my opinion aside, why not go straight to the source? Why not drill down a bit and find out what homosexual activists REALLY think about sexuality in general and marriage in particular:

"The fact is, a committed, monogamous g a y relationship is very rare. Sometimes good friends make a commitment to share a home and care for and support each other, but as g a y literature itself tells us, these relationships characteristically include an understanding that there will be outside s e x u a l relationships.

"In The Male Couple, by David McWhirter and Andrew Mattison, the authors-a g a y couple themselves- could find no g a y relationship in which fidelity was maintained more than five years. In fact, the authors tell us, "the single most important factor that keeps couples together past the ten-year mark is the lack of possessiveness they feel. Many couples learn very early in their relationship that ownership of each other s e x u a l l y can become the greatest internal threat to their staying together." -- "Reparative therapist", Joseph Nicolosi

Activist Paula Ettelbrick, once policy director for the National Center for L e s b i a n Rights, formerly legal director of the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund (formerly the Lambda Legal Defense Fund), is tactically "for" same-s e x "marriage," but shares these caveats:

"Being q u e e r is more than setting up house, sleeping with a person of the same gender, and seeking state approval for doing so....Being q u e e r means pushing the parameters of s e x, s e x u a l i t y, and family, and in the process, transforming the very fabric of society....

As a l e s b i a n, I am fundamentally different from non-l e s b i a n women....In arguing for the right to legal marriage, l e s b i a n s and g a y men would be forced to claim that we are just like h e t e r o s e x u a l couples, have the same goals and purposes, and vow to structure our lives similarly....We must keep our eyes on the goals of providing true alternatives to marriage and of radically reordering society's view of reality."

Both the National Center for L e s b i a n Rights and the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund are considered, not "fringe," but "mainstream" g a y activist groups. Former Lambda Legal Defense Fund president Thomas Stoddard also expresses lukewarm support for same-s e x "marriages":

"I must confess at the outset that I am no fan of the "institution" of marriage as currently constructed and practiced....Why give it such prominence? Why devote resources to such a distant goal? Because marriage is, I believe, the political issue that most fully tests the dedication of people who are not g a y to full equality for g a y people, and also the issue most likely to lead ultimately to a world free of discrimination against l e s b i a n s and g a y men."

"In his 1990 book An End to Shame: Shaping Our Next S e x u a l Revolution...sociologist Ira Reiss describes..."a true s e x u a l democracy [in which] all of us can achieve a much higher level of well-being- an ability to satisfy one's s e x u a l interests without guilt or anxiety...."

Writing in Out magazine, regular contributor Michelangelo Signorile (quoted supra) has described a strategy in which h o m o s e x u a l s

"fight for same-s e x marriage and its benefits and then, once granted, redefine the institution of marriage completely...to debunk a myth and radically alter an archaic institution....The most subversive action lesbians and g a y s can undertake-and one that would perhaps benefit all of society-is to transform the notion of 'family' entirely."

It's time journalists start doing some real research, band together in number and put their reputations on the line to expose the truth of the homosexual agenda.

"If God is dead, somebody is going to have to take his place. It will be megalomania or erotomania, the drive for power or the drive for pleasure, the clenched fist or the phallus, Hitler or Hugh Hefner." — Malcolm Muggeridge

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nice post

Submitted by lotr on Wed, 07/13/2011 - 12:38pm.

The quotations are particularly enlightening.

Your children are the norm, not the exception.  While I don't have children, I certainly have a very vivid memory from my own childhood of the first time I even heard of "homosexuality."

One day in middle-school  some guy called me "gay" (not an unusual thing, I don't think).  I looked it up in an old dictionary and found "happy," so I didn't get it.

So I asked some less-naive friends what it meant and they rolled their eyes and said "homosexual."  So I looked that up and found the meaning, but I immediately thought "But why or how?  It doesn't make sense!"  This was in middle-school.

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LOL - middle school

Submitted by SickofLibs on Wed, 07/13/2011 - 12:48pm.

Try and find a 1st-grader today who doesn't know what it is.

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That's sad, if you ask me.

Submitted by lotr on Wed, 07/13/2011 - 1:22pm.

That's sad, if you ask me.

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Six year olds believe in...

Submitted by Radical1979 on Wed, 07/13/2011 - 1:15pm.

...Santa Claus
...The Tooth Fairy
...Mommy is all seeing and all powerful
...Mommy has eyes in the back of her head
...The Easter Bunny

It's not surprising that you can tell a six year old there are two husbands and he accepts it. Childhood is not a world of reality.

Proud member of the 53%!
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A six year old does not

Submitted by lotr on Wed, 07/13/2011 - 1:23pm.

A six year old does not understand what "two husbands" even means.

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Um, 'scuse me mon cher,

Submitted by Rukus on Wed, 07/13/2011 - 2:25pm.

Mommies most certainly DO have eyes in the back of their heads AND are all seeing. Other than that I agree.

_____________________________________________________________ I'm not too drunk to dance! It's just that people keep stepping on my hands!
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How About One For Polygamy?

Submitted by Blue Collar Todd on Wed, 07/13/2011 - 1:46pm.

We better start seeing videos of these in favor of polygamy now that a "family" in Utah wants to see polygamy de-criminalized just like sodomy once was.

http://www.bluecollarphilosophy.com/2011/07/first-gay-marriage-now-polyg...

We can see where this is going.

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If a six year old kid...

Submitted by mister joseph on Wed, 07/13/2011 - 2:30pm.

...an explain to me the complexities of Malthusian theory, why Alger Hiss was a spy, or the dilemma of trickle-down economics, then, and only then, will I take his opinions seriously.

Otherwise, shut up and go play outside, kid, the grown-ups are talking. No one cares what you think.

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Did it really take 43 seconds?

Submitted by DumbCanuck on Wed, 07/13/2011 - 7:02pm.

Yeah, the video was 43 seconds long, but notice all the cuts and edits along the way?

Just my two cents worth...

BTW Ditto on everything!

"There... Are... Four... Lights!"

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typical mindless bigotry

Submitted by russedav on Thu, 07/14/2011 - 3:22pm.

typical mindless bigotry. There's no such thing as the "homosex-" fraud and never was (homo=same+sex=opposite?!), exposed by "The gay invention" at http://www.touchstonemag.com/archives/article.php?id=18-10-036-f
They're just deranged, violent fascist perverts in lust, not love, who have to threaten and silence those who've walked away from the deathstyle (see http://exodus.to), even to threatening to kill their kids, similar to how they tore a crucifix off an old woman and stomped on it at a CA pro-Prop 8 rally, illustrating the diabolical nature of the opposition to true marriage by the lying "gay" fraud counterfeit. See how evil fascist child molester pervert Kinsey was instrumental in the decimation of our morals jurisprudence at www.drjudithreismna.org. This is just a further extension of deranged evolutionist apostate clergyman Darwin's delusional and arrogant antiChristian bigotry opposing true science with his religious fraud, unlike creationist great scientist Sir Isaac Newton who wrote more about the Bible than he did science, knowing it was far more important, unlike today's historically and especially Biblically illiterate fools so effectively devoted to the ruin of our education in what will soon be a once great nation of illiterate idiot box fools who can no longer read text, just pictures, for one cannot lose the word of God without concommitantly losing the word of man as well, a fatal fact the Founders knew and warned us against, the reason why one of their first orders of business in establishing this once-great CHRISTIAN Republic was the ordering of the printing of Bibles.

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