WATCH: The Leffews Take Back National Prayer Day
The National Day of Prayer, made official by President Harry Truman in 1952, means many things to many people. For the Bush White House, it was preaching closing mindedness. For the Obama administration, yesterday was a lower key affair; gone was the ceremonial prayer that Bush maintained for his eight years. (The private Christian-based National Day of Prayer Task Force wasn’t so happy about that.) But who cares what our elected officials are doing. Let’s check in with Queerty‘s adopted YouTube family, the Leffews.
We’ve been e-hanging out with the Leffews since last week. The Northern California family has two daddies (married, thank you very much), a daughter, and a son. And they’re adorable! Uploading to YouTube since Prop 8′s passage to show America gay couples are just as normal as everyone else, Jay (in the sleeveless tee) and Bryan (in the blue polo) yesterday shared their own National Day of Prayer tradition.
They send up a helium balloon for Selena’s mom Josephine, who she’s never met. (OMG Selena is the cutest thing ever!) Another balloon goes up for Daniel’s dad, who he hasn’t seen since he was four. (Okay, Daniel is also the cutest thing ever!) Bryan sends his to God, and Jay sends his to his own dad.
We love how these guys speak to their kids like the smart kids they are. And also: Their undying optimism.
this is sooo cute!
I adore this family. What magnificent role models!
Queerty….thankyou for posting this. Religion, spirituality is always such a hot topic in our community (and rightly so). Huge fan of the site, and really want to send kudo’s your way for rounding things out w/this post. Well done!
Thank you Queerty for introducing me to the Leffew family! I now have their youtube profile bookmarked. This is a wonderful thing they are doing.
Those two are hotter than most of the morning goods!
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So Touched….
This is really sweet. I also really like the take on the national day of prayer. Rachel Maddow was rightfully wary of the Day of Prayer, yet as these guys show, prayer doesn’t sectarian. Yeah, Bush used the Day as a bludgeon, but that was because he’s a schmuck. Maybe we should treat NDoP like Drink that Bottle of Wine day. We always intend to pause and reflect, but we rarely get around to it. That we do it as Americans isn’t so bad.
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Killing whales and dolphins for Jesus? Sweet, but please don’t release helium balloons into the atmosphere, folks, what goes up also comes down as litter.
What a great story!
Very cute. I like them.
It’s not churlish to ask them not to litter, tho. God doesn’t need a fleck of rubber (or petroleum derivative) floating in a pond or caught in a tree to hear you.