My uncle has struck again on facebook.
What sucks about facebook is that you let family in and you can't necessarily delete them. I made the mistake of friending my uncle. I felt like I couldn't really say no.
About a week later, he emailed me about the gay marriage thing in April, shortly after a status update I wrote about Iowa.:
( Read more... )I posted about this in LJ, and got some great responses. I followed most people's advice and ignored it.
Once that got no response, he emailed me again on my personal email, saying something about coming to watch his fish for vacation and mentioned it again. I didn't respond to that either.
Then, he called. I was forced to engage him now, since I was driving and didn't look to see who was calling and answered it. It went a bit like this:
( Read more... )He suddenly had to go.
A few more weeks go by, and I get another email today.:
( Read more... )Okay... so... I read the article. World net daily is a severe right wing website. I think anyone who has ever written for a high school newspaper, town penny saver, or family yearly update can contribute, and the writing in the article makes it painfully clear. I was talking about it with
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twtd and it really seemed like the person writing it was very right wing, but he was writing liberally, and getting confused along the way. I couldn't even read the entire article because it made no sense. If you want to give it a go, that's fine, but seriously...
Anyone who I talk to on a regular basis knows how I feel. Honestly, I don't care if it's called marriage, or fdnjka, or what. Right now, I am listening to my partner sleep 10,000 miles away because there is no law on the books that recognizes her as my partner. My dad told me about how his brother in law went to Africa, met a woman, married her in a week, and two months later, she is in the process of getting her green card. In three months, Kate and I will be together for two years. We have spent most of that time separated by two oceans because our relationship doesn't count. I just want to be treated the same. I want to be able to have a baby with Kate without having to be scared that someone will take it away because both of us have vaginas. This whole thing is exhausting me, and having the states recognize marriage is going to evenutally have to force the federal government to overturn DOMA (Defense of Marriage Act). I would settle for equal immigration rights right now, because that's on the forefront of my mind.
::Sigh:: This is not how I intended to spend my Saturday. I'm tired of sitting back and not fighting back. My plan to deal with my uncle is two fold. One, I am going to email him and as politely as possible tell him to fuck himself, then defriend him. Next, I am going to make small donations to every gay rights group I can think of in his name and make sure I get him signed up for mailings.
I am having a hard time being tactful. Anyone have suggestions?
