MoPhillips

I’d follow you any where but there!

Recently one of my favourite people asked her twitter followers to make donations to a specific charity rather than send her birthday gifts. I applaud her generosity of spirit and her intent but find that I cannot donate to her named charity.

Why not? It’s in aid of an excellent cause and in pursuit of a simple solution to an easily remedied condition. But - the funds are administered and the care provided by a faith based organisation.

There are, I am sure, many such organizations which are administered and operated in the most exemplary of manners and this may well be one of them. However, this particular organization is an initiative of a church which denies the authenticity of my relationship with my wife.

It didn’t take me long, using the w.w.w. to check this out and to conclude that I cannot support this charity.

I hope this person, whom I admire greatly, is able to name another non faith based charity as an alternative for me and others of a similar opinion to support on her behalf.

Love this photoshoot. Love these women. Love their show and the characters they play.

(via xlasilrocksx)

I’ve been forced to explain homosexuality to my kids (aged 3 and 4) because their uncle is gay. This incredibly difficult and traumatic experience went as follows:

Child: Why does Uncle Bob go everywhere with Pete?
Me: Because they’re in love, just like Mummy and Daddy are.
Child: Oh. Can I have a biscuit?

We’re all scarred for life. Scarred, I tell you.

—KateP, Internet commenter (via jawnwatsons)

(Source: Guardian, via fudgeclusters)

anamatics: barackobama: RealNichelle: Taken 2/29/12 in the Oval Office - Live Long & Prosper! Someone emailed this to us with the subject line: “Tumblr worthy?” Yes. We would say so. I approve of this post. My new favourite photo.

anamatics:

barackobama:

RealNichelle:

Taken 2/29/12 in the Oval Office - Live Long & Prosper!

Someone emailed this to us with the subject line: “Tumblr worthy?” Yes. We would say so.

I approve of this post.

My new favourite photo.
fuckyeah-nerdery: Saw this picture on imgur and just had to post it here, because this is without a doubt, one of the most badass women alive. Meet Katrina Hodge, a corporal in the British Army and Miss England 2009. According to Wikipedia, she enlisted back in 2004 after her brother challenged her to and earned the nickname “Combat Barbie” after showing up at her assigned unit wearing false eyelashes, kitten heels (whatever those are) and carry a pink suitcase. In 2005 her unit, the Royal Anglian Regiment, was deployed to Iraq, where she saved the lives of her comrades from a prisoner by wrestling not one, but two rifles from him and then knocking his ass out with her bare hands. With her bare hands. Then in 2009, she decided to compete in the Miss England competition to destroy stereotypes about women in the military. She didn’t win (she placed runner-up), but still became Miss England after the woman who did got into a fight and gave up the crown. While Miss England, Hodge convinced the people running the competition to ditch the bikini contest, because she felt that it was more important to be a role model than looking good in a bikini. In 2010, she handed over the crown and returned to military service, being deployed to Afghanistan. This woman is both a BAMF and a HBIC. Damn.

fuckyeah-nerdery:

Saw this picture on imgur and just had to post it here, because this is without a doubt, one of the most badass women alive. Meet Katrina Hodge, a corporal in the British Army and Miss England 2009. According to Wikipedia, she enlisted back in 2004 after her brother challenged her to and earned the nickname “Combat Barbie” after showing up at her assigned unit wearing false eyelashes, kitten heels (whatever those are) and carry a pink suitcase. In 2005 her unit, the Royal Anglian Regiment, was deployed to Iraq, where she saved the lives of her comrades from a prisoner by wrestling not one, but two rifles from him and then knocking his ass out with her bare hands.

With her bare hands.

Then in 2009, she decided to compete in the Miss England competition to destroy stereotypes about women in the military. She didn’t win (she placed runner-up), but still became Miss England after the woman who did got into a fight and gave up the crown. While Miss England, Hodge convinced the people running the competition to ditch the bikini contest, because she felt that it was more important to be a role model than looking good in a bikini.

In 2010, she handed over the crown and returned to military service, being deployed to Afghanistan.

This woman is both a BAMF and a HBIC. Damn.

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