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The controversy surrounding gay marriage has been raging on with passionate opinions on the matter weighing in on both sides. With all of the debate regarding marriage, not much is being said in regards to children being brought up in the midst of those unions. Some children of gay couples have filed court briefs claiming that the inability for their parents to marry has put them in an awkward position when they are denied an array of legal protections.
As courts in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas make decisions on whether to uphold gay marriage laws, four children (now adults) of same sex relationships have submitted briefs to the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals claiming their lives were anything but rainbows and unicorns as they oppose gay marriage.
The accusations are harsh, with details of the hardships seeming much like possible abuse that these children faced growing up under a same-sex parent household. B.N. Klein claims that she had no idea how a mother and a father interacted and that her lesbian parents detested heterosexual couples. It wasn’t until she was placed in foster care that she saw what a husband and wife in a family were about. When speaking about the gay community, Ms. Klein said, “While I do not believe all gays would be de facto bad parents, I know that the gay community has never in my lifetime put children first as anything other than a piece of property, a past mistake or a political tool to be dressed up and taken out as part of a dog-and-pony show to impress the well-meaning.”
Dawn Stefanowicz claims that he gay father was obsessed with sex and when she would have a male friend over from school, that her father and his partner would ask them for sex. She said, “Your childhood is divided to please the adults,” she wrote, explaining that many adults — even former sex partners of a parent — feel they can talk about “where you live, who you visit, what schools you attend, which doctors you see, what medical procedures you have, what faith/religion you practice.” Ms. Stefanowicz’s father passed away from AIDS in 1991.
Robert Oscar Lopez recalls that he was so emotionally confused from having lesbian moms that he turned to homosexual prostitution as a teen and turned to gay relationships when he became an adult. He said “he and other children of gays feel pain, but it’s because there’s a missing biological parent, not because people lack legal marriage”.
Gay marriage advocacy groups such as the “Family Equality Council” and “COLAGE” have also filed a brief with the courts saying, “Our families should be recognized simply because we are humans with the same rights as everyone else. We are families and the treatment of us as anything else is discrimination.”
Will Miller who grew up in a household with two mothers, had a different experience when he told the courts that “They loved me, and that was all that mattered”. He went on to say that his childhood was “extraordinary in that it was simply ordinary.”
Gay marriage is currently sanctioned in 36 states with an estimated 220,000 children being raised by gay couples, and it looks as though there will be more as advocates press on. Is it a human right to marry whoever a person wants, or is there a deeper issue? Either way, it is changing the face of traditional marriage as we know it forever one union at a time.
http://buzzpo.com/children-sex-coup...acebook.com&utm_campaign=positivelyrepublican
As courts in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas make decisions on whether to uphold gay marriage laws, four children (now adults) of same sex relationships have submitted briefs to the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals claiming their lives were anything but rainbows and unicorns as they oppose gay marriage.
The accusations are harsh, with details of the hardships seeming much like possible abuse that these children faced growing up under a same-sex parent household. B.N. Klein claims that she had no idea how a mother and a father interacted and that her lesbian parents detested heterosexual couples. It wasn’t until she was placed in foster care that she saw what a husband and wife in a family were about. When speaking about the gay community, Ms. Klein said, “While I do not believe all gays would be de facto bad parents, I know that the gay community has never in my lifetime put children first as anything other than a piece of property, a past mistake or a political tool to be dressed up and taken out as part of a dog-and-pony show to impress the well-meaning.”
Dawn Stefanowicz claims that he gay father was obsessed with sex and when she would have a male friend over from school, that her father and his partner would ask them for sex. She said, “Your childhood is divided to please the adults,” she wrote, explaining that many adults — even former sex partners of a parent — feel they can talk about “where you live, who you visit, what schools you attend, which doctors you see, what medical procedures you have, what faith/religion you practice.” Ms. Stefanowicz’s father passed away from AIDS in 1991.
Robert Oscar Lopez recalls that he was so emotionally confused from having lesbian moms that he turned to homosexual prostitution as a teen and turned to gay relationships when he became an adult. He said “he and other children of gays feel pain, but it’s because there’s a missing biological parent, not because people lack legal marriage”.
Gay marriage advocacy groups such as the “Family Equality Council” and “COLAGE” have also filed a brief with the courts saying, “Our families should be recognized simply because we are humans with the same rights as everyone else. We are families and the treatment of us as anything else is discrimination.”
Will Miller who grew up in a household with two mothers, had a different experience when he told the courts that “They loved me, and that was all that mattered”. He went on to say that his childhood was “extraordinary in that it was simply ordinary.”
Gay marriage is currently sanctioned in 36 states with an estimated 220,000 children being raised by gay couples, and it looks as though there will be more as advocates press on. Is it a human right to marry whoever a person wants, or is there a deeper issue? Either way, it is changing the face of traditional marriage as we know it forever one union at a time.
http://buzzpo.com/children-sex-coup...acebook.com&utm_campaign=positivelyrepublican
