What we’re reading today:
1. We’re glad that there are some awesome dad bloggers out there now, but 20 years ago, not too many dads were writing about their fatherhood experience.
2. Moms multi-task more than dads.
3. Asthmatic kids have it rough; even low levels of pollen trigger their wheezing and coughing and shortness of breath. Poor little lambs.
4. TV show Parenthood does a decent job showing what it’s like in a family with special needs.
5. The video of Zach Wahls speaking about his two moms and marriage equality rights went viral in February, and seemed to have a second go-around this past Wednesday and Thursday. Turns out, his resurgence in popularity was due to a Q-and-A session on Reddit. It’s definitely worth watching again. Also, we love that his forthcoming book is tentatively titled My Two Moms: Everything I Needed to Know About Gay Marriage I learned in Boy Scouts.
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This is partly an aifrtact of how same sex marriage came to be recognized in the state of Iowa. Rather than going through a normal legislative process, same sex marriages were forced to be recognized by the courts. So the decision to recognize same sex marriage was made by a very few people in that state. In recent elections those judges were not re-elected, which isn’t normal for judicial elections. It doesn’t appear that the people of Iowa were ready to embrace same sex marriage. So activists forced this on the state through the courts. Rather or not you view same sex marriage to be a right, forcing something on people through the judicial branch is not going to generate good will.I imagine that I am supposed to get sad about this situation and say that no matter what everyone should bend over backwards to give this family what they want. I can’t support efforts that subvert the will of the people through judicial activism.My personal feelings on same sex marriage are conflicted, but I think I would find it much easier to accept if this went through legislative channels rather than judicial activism. Essentially, activists chose to ram their ideas down the throat of the people of Iowa rather than convince them that their cause is just, right and moral. I guess they figure the people of Iowa are incapable of deciding for themselves. I wish more of these feel good/feel bad, pull at your hearstrings posts that are supposed to make us feel rather than think would offer a little commentary on how these situations came to be.