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Title: One man’s quest to undermine his cousin’s marriage to a transgender man
Post by: skin on October 12, 2014, 02:22:37 PM
Post by: skin on October 12, 2014, 02:22:37 PM
Rob Watson, LGBTQ Nation
October 12, 2014
Once upon a time there were two cousins, Jessica and Robby. They grew up together in the warm and wet Mississippi back lands. They swam, they fished and Jessica loved and respected her cousin. He gave her the sense of understanding family and loyalty.
That sense of family and loyalty was upended completely recently when Robby recently ran to the American Family Association — an entity defined by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a "hate" organization — to get their help in humiliating and attacking Jessica's marriage. Robby has never met Jessica's husband.
Jessica and her husband, Nick, are legally married. Nick is a transgender male. A mutual friend introduced them a few years ago.
On the afternoon of September 23, Jessica got a private message from her cousin Robby out of the blue.
It said: "Jessica, I want you to know that I love you both as a person and as my family. You hand I practically grew up together, and I don't want you to think that I am angry with you. But I have to tell you that what you and Nick are doing is wrong, and I am going to be doing all that I can to challenge it. I realize this might upset you, but I have to do what is right as difficult as it is going to be."
Jessica had no idea what he meant about "challenging it," but she was soon to find out.
More: http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2014/10/when-her-cousin-attacked-her-marriage-she-understood-what-true-family-means/ (http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2014/10/when-her-cousin-attacked-her-marriage-she-understood-what-true-family-means/)
October 12, 2014
Once upon a time there were two cousins, Jessica and Robby. They grew up together in the warm and wet Mississippi back lands. They swam, they fished and Jessica loved and respected her cousin. He gave her the sense of understanding family and loyalty.
That sense of family and loyalty was upended completely recently when Robby recently ran to the American Family Association — an entity defined by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a "hate" organization — to get their help in humiliating and attacking Jessica's marriage. Robby has never met Jessica's husband.
Jessica and her husband, Nick, are legally married. Nick is a transgender male. A mutual friend introduced them a few years ago.
On the afternoon of September 23, Jessica got a private message from her cousin Robby out of the blue.
It said: "Jessica, I want you to know that I love you both as a person and as my family. You hand I practically grew up together, and I don't want you to think that I am angry with you. But I have to tell you that what you and Nick are doing is wrong, and I am going to be doing all that I can to challenge it. I realize this might upset you, but I have to do what is right as difficult as it is going to be."
Jessica had no idea what he meant about "challenging it," but she was soon to find out.
More: http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2014/10/when-her-cousin-attacked-her-marriage-she-understood-what-true-family-means/ (http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2014/10/when-her-cousin-attacked-her-marriage-she-understood-what-true-family-means/)
Title: Re: One man’s quest to undermine his cousin’s marriage to a transgender man
Post by: Mark3 on October 12, 2014, 04:13:58 PM
Post by: Mark3 on October 12, 2014, 04:13:58 PM
Yeah, I'm familiar with that kind of ignorance and phobia living in the south also.
The battle rages on.. Some people believing they have the right to judge others private lives and relationship choices as valid or not, depending upon they're own views.
It's really sad, and benifits no one involved, it just fuels hate and intolerance, and damages others lives for no valid reason.?
:'(
The battle rages on.. Some people believing they have the right to judge others private lives and relationship choices as valid or not, depending upon they're own views.
It's really sad, and benifits no one involved, it just fuels hate and intolerance, and damages others lives for no valid reason.?
:'(
Title: Re: One man’s quest to undermine his cousin’s marriage to a transgender man
Post by: suzifrommd on October 12, 2014, 04:31:04 PM
Post by: suzifrommd on October 12, 2014, 04:31:04 PM
When did the world "family" becomes a synonym for limiting LGBT rights?