…I’m really not comfortable with this.
Even if that eight-year-old kid wanted to do it, even if confronting Michele Bachmann was the kid’s idea, even if the kid was excited about being in a YouTube video… this just isn’t cool.
The enemies of LGBT equality use small children as props in their misleading commercials and at their hate rallies all the time. It’s a credit to our side that this sort of thing—a gay parent pushing a child into the face of a hater like Bachmann—is so rare that this video shocks the conscience.
We shouldn’t use our kids like this. Even if one of our kids wants to be used like this—even if our kid is a precocious little eight-year-old asskicker who want nothing more than to get all up in Michele Bachmann’s crazy face (and that’s not how this kid comes across)—we need to exercise sound parental judgment and tell our kids, “No, honey, not now. Maybe later.”
Hmmm…. I wonder if some of those ‘occupy’ parents are reading this?
Ugh, that was my first reaction as well. You can just see the parent training their child exactly what to say. It’s bad press and it’s bad parenting.
Still… classic Bachmann. “Okay, bye bye.”
UGH. That made my skin crawl.
It got me thinking about why it disgusts me so much to see the kids of Westboro Baptist -say- holding signs espousing their parents’ political views versus feeling kind of okay about Elijah here saying a little something to a whack job who is running for president and is married to a guy who “fixes” gay people for a living.
They’re both cases where the parents are manipulating their kids, but I don’t think that Elijah’s parent is asking him to hate anyone. So there’s that.
I demand that “As a Gay Parent…” becomes the new “As a Vegan…” in all the polls.
“As a gay vegan parent, I…”
I second the motion Fruit Cup.