CHILDREN OF GAY PARENTS: Joshua Elder
I wanted to comment on something I saw on Marriage Debate a while back. It was about how children of gay parents would say that their upbringing was have been no different (or at least no better) than if they had been raised by heterosexual parents. I totally agree. I'm the only child of a single mother, and while I think my mother is an amazing woman and a great parent, my situation was not ideal. My mother made mistakes and I paid for them. It's hard for children to say this, especially when society directs so much venom towards single mothers/gay parents/etc already. Kids don't want to run their own folks down, and they'll be damned if they'll let anyone else do it. I got into a fight in the third grade over the whole "bastard" thing. No one was gonna talk about my momma like that.
My point being that in the name of tolerance (especially in light of the growth of single parent families and gay couple adoption), we've lost that critical distinction between loving the sinner and hating the sin. We don't think we can do one without doing the other. And to be fair, we often can't. Which is why any poll of the children of gay parents will be all but useless.
posted by Eve at
7:27 PM | link
Post a Comment
<< Home