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Today's film is from our DVD library.

I have seen it several times with great pleasure.

Spinnin' (2012)

The Brazilians have it all over us. They can make a sensible, friendly, gay romantic comedy and, in this case, throw in a bit of fatherhood with surrogate mothers and all that. A delightful gay couple step up to the plate and when life happens they decide to step up even more.

This film is way ahead of its time. It deals with issues that the good old USA is beginning to grapple with.

Not that this has stopped gay men who wanted to have kids at all. Society is always many steps behind.

This is a sweet romantic comedy with wonderful people and a great outlook.

A 5 out of Netflix5 by definition since I bought it at the first viewing.

Labels: films, gay adoption, gay films, gay life, gay rights.

The wing nuts think they have a lock on defending the family.

This delusion is what might just upset their apple cart. Defining "family" as a tightly run heterosexual and, probably, god fearing, church going unit, they fail to see that for years, gay men and women have been making their own family units. And, as a result encouraging many heterosexual groups, not all couples incidentally, to redefine their notions of marriage as well.

What has turned it is the kids.

Gay couples have been getting kids through adoption or surrogate activities foe quite awhile now and the evidence is in and quite clear that families do not suffer in the present of gay principals. I would not go so far as to claim that gay marriages are better for kids. I do not have that prejudice which so many hets have.

But I do know that my own family has flourished from the presence of a gay dad other than myself. And now, grandchildren. Who come visit on their own. Their two granddads.

Today, another article about gay kids.

How kids became the strongest argument for same-sex marriage

How dare these assholes disparage my family. My kids. My marriage.

While I do not often use such derogatory terms, I consider these people to be evil. Flat out. Mean, bigoted and sometimes so crazed with their surety that they do no good and sometimes seriously harm others.

Labels: gay adoption, gay families, gay history, gay marriage, gay rights