RESPONSES TO MAGGIE GALLAGHER'S "ADULT CHILDREN SPEAK OUT ABOUT SAME-SEX PARENTS": David Morrison and Andrew Sullivan
David Morrison comments: "...There it is, that old bugaboo of biology. We can't just change our gender roles and identities like overcoats and maintain it doesn't matter. Sure, it may not matter to us, but it can sure as heck matter to the children we decide to bring into this situation.
"The reality is that there have been same sex couples (usually related by blood, however distant), or single parents, for years now; because of death, divorce, or other tragedy a child has had to be reared without the input of both his or her parents. But not until now have we had the arrogance to decide, a priori, for our children, that having a father or mother just doesn't matter...."
Andrew Sullivan comments: "...Oh, so that settles it. You don't need science or research, you just need one anecdote! Don't you think, for example, that you could find a child of a mixed race couple who feels and felt socially isolated in childhood or the object of peer pressure as a kid? Would that make a mixed-race marriage a 'selfish' proposition for two adults in love? Yes, that was exactly the argument used in the 1950s and 1960s against inter-racial marriage: think of what it does to the kids."
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