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Miracle Myth Memes and the Propagation of Hope in Wen Chuan

The recent earthquake in Wen Chuan, China gives us a moment to reflect on our mortality in sorrow, express a renewed appreciation for being alive, and an opportunity to learn how we grieve and how we always try to look for stories of hope in the propagation of news from a disaster site.

I call those propagated stories of incredible survival — “Miracle Myth Memes” — and they are a fascinating cultural salve against the unthinkable.

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Gay Adoption

I realize there are many who feel Gay adoption is wrong and immoral. I would like to propose the opposite — that Gay people can parent children the same as traditional parents with no proven ill-effects on the child.

There are more children living in foster homes today than there are families who are willing to take them into their homes.

With that shortage of adoptive families why would anyone wish a child live in a foster home or in an orphanage until they reach the age of reason?

What reasonable person would prefer a child not live in a home where the want to raise a child is so strong that the prospective parents will suffer discrimination and hatred and inequities in the law just so they can share their gift of a better life for an abandoned child?