ReThink Review: The Kids Are All Right -- On Gay Parents, Divorce and Marrying Murderers

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jonathan-kim/rethink-review-emthe-kids_b_684342.html|ReThink Review: The Kids Are All Right -- On Gay Parents, Divorce and Marrying Murderers>
By Jonathan Kim
Huffington Post

Buoyed by rave reviews and positive word of mouth, Lisa Cholodenko's film The Kids Are All Right is expanding into more theaters and exposing Americans to something they probably haven't seen before -- a gay married couple raising children. According to Republicans, this is something you should be deathly afraid of, since gay people marrying could bring about the end of civilization, and gay parents are inherently unfit to raise children. So Republicans wouldn't want you to see a movie like The Kids Are All Right, where Nic (Annette Bening) and Jules (Julianne Moore) raise their two teenage children (Mia Wasikowska and Josh Hutcherson) in a way that is shockingly, disturbingly... normal.

Watch my ReThink Review of The Kids Are All Right and discussion with Cenk Uygur of the Young Turks about gay marriage, http://www.gotquestions.org/divorce-remarriage.html|what the Bible says about divorce>, and how Cenk ruined Mark Ruffalo's conversation with Pierce Brosnan below.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18HYa7OH8tM&feature=player_embedded|Video: The Kids Are All Right - ReThink Review & Discussion>

...Considering the increased risks faced by the approximately 35 million children from divorced heterosexual couples, how can gay marriage opponents claim that banning gay marriage is anything close to an effective way to protect children? Instead, why not outlaw divorce? Why not force members of a divorced couple with children to marry someone else immediately? Gay marriage opponents claim that any parenting unit other than a married heterosexual couple should be barred by law, yet when millions of heterosexual couples willfully destroy that supposedly perfect unit, they say nothing.

Why are our worst criminals allowed to marry while in jail? In a practice that is more common than anyone would like to acknowledge, serial killers (especially ones who enjoy some level of fame or notoriety) are often proposed to by multiple women. Why are serial killers allowed to marry and gay people aren't?

Also, if protecting children is the paramount concern, why are there no laws preventing murderers, rapists, child molesters, or people with violent histories from getting married and having children?...

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