The Republican candidate for governor, Carl P. Paladino, told a gathering in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, on Sunday that children should not be “brainwashed” into thinking that homosexuality was acceptable, and criticized his opponent, Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo, for marching in a gay pride parade earlier this year....
“I just think my children and your children would be much better off and much more successful getting married and raising a family, and I don’t want them brainwashed into thinking that homosexuality is an equally valid and successful option — it isn’t,” he said, reading from a prepared address, according to a video of the event.
And then, to applause at Congregation Shaarei Chaim, he said: “I didn’t march in the gay parade this year — the gay pride parade this year. My opponent did, and that’s not the example we should be showing our children.” Newsday.com reported that Mr. Paladino’s prepared text had included the sentence: “There is nothing to be proud of in being a dysfunctional homosexual.” But Mr. Paladino omitted the sentence in his speech.
Yeah, well, stay away from my kids, anti-gay freak.
Small comforts: in my state, nuts like Paladino get stomped. Large worries: by and large, nuts like him run the country.
Total aside! On Saturday AM the 11 year old had his best game yet of this soccer season -- he was goalie, & on a wild corner-kick sequence, he burst towards the opposite post and wrapped up a loose ball about a hair's length from the line.
And he did it with this awesomely smooth slide move... and then he came up running with the ball, and just hurled it, perfectly anticipated to our best midfielder, who took it right up and, er, well... uh, I could go on, but we lost. But by only one freak goal (not let in by the 11YO).
Anyway -- my kid looked TOTALLY AWESOME for a single play.
There's a weird sort of glory you see sometimes; the 11 year-old is just an 11-year-old, but for a flash of a second, as he came up with that ball, absolutely nobody in the world could have done it with more ablomb.
For a nanosecond, he was the shit.
And that's cool.