The biggest difficulty I have with much of the anti-gay parenting thing is that a lot of it boils down to "Children should be brought up with their mum and dad and everything else is inferior." Not everyone, I know, but if you dig around a lot, that's at the heart of a lot of people's objections.
Which is all well and good, but leaving aside the evil homosexuals, it leaves out people who aren't in a mum and dad relationship entirely by accident. If the father is killed in an accident, say, I don't want a society which denegrates the efforts of a single mother. Or if a father is left holding the baby, that the kid is raised by father and grandparents is completely sensible. Or a woman who leaves a violent husband and moves in with her sister - OMG TWO WOMEN TEH LESBINANISMISM! And I think that anyone in a situation like one of those who raises their children to be healthy, happy and such deserves our full support.
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Date: 2005-11-23 05:08 am (UTC)Which is all well and good, but leaving aside the evil homosexuals, it leaves out people who aren't in a mum and dad relationship entirely by accident. If the father is killed in an accident, say, I don't want a society which denegrates the efforts of a single mother. Or if a father is left holding the baby, that the kid is raised by father and grandparents is completely sensible. Or a woman who leaves a violent husband and moves in with her sister - OMG TWO WOMEN TEH LESBINANISMISM! And I think that anyone in a situation like one of those who raises their children to be healthy, happy and such deserves our full support.
Bah.