A reader writes:
Thanks for linking to Ted Olson’s article in Newsweek re: gay marriage and the constitution. It was so gratifying to read a rational, ‘conservative’ defense of gay marriage; this is the conservatism of my in-laws and my husband (until he got so disgusted with the current party that he no longer claims the title).
One issue he didn’t address was the fact that gay couples CAN procreate.
Maybe that’s just a bridge too far but the daughter of one of my good friends has a healthy, happy 8-month-old little boy who is hers through artificial insemination and her partner's through a loving, parental bond. We have all remarked about how lucky that little boy is to have TWO moms (of course, since we’re all moms, we would say that). And my friend, who had trouble dealing with her daughter’s homosexuality and then her marriage and then the baby is one of the happiest grandmothers you would want to know. And she sends pictures around to all of us and tells us about how he looks a ‘little bit’ like her. There are a lot of grandmothers/grandfathers out there who are enjoying their genetic off spring as much as anyone.
Oh and gay men: there were two who became the poster picture of Gavin Newsom’s ill-fated adventure into gay marriage … When they got married, they were both holding baby girls in carriers on their chests and the very interesting thing that I found out (turns out my pilates instructor was a cousin of one of the men) was that each of those babies were their biological daughters. They had a surrogate mother and implanted 4 fertilized eggs; two from each of them and when they checked DNA, each man was a dad. What right does any state or any one have to tell people how to raise their biological children?
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