I remind myself Beloved is awfully cute

So I do not strangle him.

Sunday dawns and Sparky begins his normal morning routine.

Wait, that’s kind of a lie… So Sunday dawns, Sparky sleeps through most of it, because there’s no damned excuse for waking Sparky up before noon on a Sunday then begins the normal afternoon routine of seeking coffee and mercilessly destroying anything that stands in the way.

Suitably restocked on caffeine I notice the FISH are doing what can only be described as begging. Beloved is also nowhere about – I should have noticed earlier by the absence of extremely unnecessary noise he always feels the need to produce in the morning early afternoon.

Having fed the fish (which would be a lot lot less irritating if the procedure for these picky creatures didn’t require a gazillion different pots, several arcane ceremonies and a ritual sacrifice) I went in quest for Beloved.

He was in the garden – digging it up. It looks like he had been doing so tirelessly since dawn. We don’t have a deck any more. We don’t have a gazebo any more. We don’t have a rock garden any more.  We have an expanse of mud.

It seems we are returning to his previous obsession of turning the garden into an allotment and trying to grow  all our vegetables in Yorkshire’s claggy, clay laden soil. It occurs to me I’ve lost ground, since last time he planned this I forced him NOT to dig up the whole garden. Damn, he must have been stealth planning this – damn you fishies, you were just a feint!

The fish are, of course, forgotten. New obsession now. *Sigh* I’d be more irritated if he weren’t so endearingly cute when he starts a new project. He’s like a kid with a new toy, all excited and enthusiastic *pats*

At least this obsession won’t spill water on the carpets can could result in tasty things to nibble on (other than Beloved post scrubbing the mud off him).

Leave our Kids Alone

We should all know by now that the haters don’t really have any limits – there’s no extreme they won’t stoop to in their demonisation and attacks on  gay people. As such, it really shouldn’t surprise me when they go after our kids.

But it still shocks me – because this shit is evil. Pure, solid EVIL. They take our kids when they are at their most vulnerable, their most scared, their most fragile – and they do everything they can to try and break them.

In Virginia, the Attorney General Cuccinelli has ordered universities to remove their anti-discrimination policies. He is demanding that their current anti-discrimination policies be scrapped – for a reversal of the protections  workers and students at these universities already enjoyed.

It’s a terrifying message about how victories can be very fleeting, and it follows Virginia removing the same anti-discrimination policy for all state employees. Can you imagine thinking you’re safe, coming out in the work place, then having this yanked form under you?

It’s not the only university where the message of hate is being spared – at the University of cAlifornia Davis, the LGBT resources centre has been hit by malicious anti-gay graffiti. I think the centre intends to keep it there – as a reminder of how much hate there is still out there. Frankly that particular campus sounds like it needs no reminders of hate – given the anti-semitic and racist incidents that have happened recently

The American Family Association – always to be relied on for some bigotry – is outraged, OUTRAGED – that gay students may be protected from homophobic bullying. They’re furious about a bill proposed in the US by Rep Jared Polis to protect gay kids from bullying. How low will they stoop?

Well, not as low as Linda Harvey from Mission America she believes that this law is ‘fascist’. Because you can’t protect kids from being attacks – that’s what Hitler would do! Don’t try to apply logic to it, your brain will break.

It seems there are no shortage of people who are salivating over the chance to see gay kids beaten up (and killed) as often as possible. Parents in Alameda, California are suing a school to stop it including anti-bullying lessons. Yup, asking people not to hurt gay kids is so unreasonable, it needs a law suit to stop it.

In fact, it seems protecting and promoting anti-gay bullying is the vogue among the hate groups. In response to the Day Of Silence a day dedicated to bringing attention to anti-LGBT violence and hate in schools, Exodus has launched it’s “Day of Truth” because it’s WRONG to teach people that it’s bad to beat up and harass gay kids! What’s the matter, Exodus, worried that more kids won’t grow up as twisted and self-hating as you?

In South Africa, it seems an entire girl’s dormitory had to be closed when it was faced with the possibility of a *gasp* Lesbian relationship between 2 of the residents! The 2 girls who were caught kissing have been expelled – despite South Africa’s anti-discrimination law. It shows how little even legal protections can be worth in the face of hatred. I can’t even begin to imagine disrupting the lives and education of all these girls because of this vindictive hate against 2 lesbians.

In Lithuania a new section 28 has been made. A law to protect children from hearing about any but “traditional families” it had to be edited because it was so blatantly and outrageously homophobic in the first draft that the EU Parliament was outraged. It has been rewritten – but it is little better. How many children will grow up under this law, believing that their lives and their loves have no value?

And a Catholic school in Colorado has expelled one of their students because their parents are lesbians. This is cruelty and bigotry beyond doubt – I pity that child, their school has tried to shame their parents and punished them because of the school’s religious bigotry.

When I started this post, I didn’t think it would be this long. I didn’t realise how many attacks against our kids there were in my big bag o’ links.It breaks my heart to see that i had so much source material. Our kids don’t deserve this and we shouldn’t tolerate it.