The modern family

Some interesting articles are being published over at Online Opinion on the topic of the meaning of "family".

Bill Muehlenberg rises from murky christendom to denigrate women and homosexuals .. no surprises there!

Fortunately Bill and his ilk receive an upper-cut from a woman - in a same-sex relationship, no less! :-)

A great excerpt from a young girl's speech about her special adopted family gave me some joy that Australia hasn't been completely lost to the world of religious indoctrination and bigotry.

But perhaps the best argument is made by sociologist, Maggie Walter, with her simple conclusion "You don’t have a family; you be a family".

I'm waiting to see if my submission makes it into the list of published articles. Regardless I'll post it up here soon enough.

In the meantime, still on the topic of family, here's a little humour regarding the modern family ...

"Daddy, how was I born?"

Dad answered: "Ah, my son, I guess one day you will need to find out anyway! Well, you see your Mom and I first got together in a chat room on MSN. Then I set up a date via e-mail with your Mom and we met at a cyber-cafe. We sneaked into a secluded room, where your mother agreed to a download from my hard drive. As soon as I was ready to upload, we discovered that neither one of us had used a firewall, and since it was too late to hit the delete button,nine months later a blessed little Popup appeared and said ----- "You've Got Male!"