Dear Gay Community: Your Kids Are Hurting

The Federalist ^ | March 15,2015 | Heather Barwick

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Gay community, I am your daughter. My mom raised me with her same-sex partner back in the ’80s and ’90s. She and my dad were married for a little while. She knew she was gay before they got married, but things were different back then. That’s how I got here. It was complicated as you can imagine. She left him when I was two or three because she wanted a chance to be happy with someone she really loved: a woman.

My dad wasn’t a great guy, and after she left him he didn’t bother coming around anymore.

Do you remember that book, “Heather Has Two Mommies”? That was my life. My mom, her partner, and I lived in a cozy little house in the ‘burbs of a very liberal and open-minded area. Her partner treated me as if I was her own daughter. Along with my mom’s partner, I also inherited her tight-knit community of gay and lesbian friends. Or maybe they inherited me?

Either way, I still feel like gay people are my people. I’ve learned so much from you. You taught me how to be brave, especially when it is hard. You taught me empathy. You taught me how to listen. And how to dance. You taught me not be afraid of things that are different. And you taught me how to stand up for myself, even if that means I stand alone.

I’m writing to you because I’m letting myself out of the closet: I don’t support gay marriage. But it might not be for the reasons that you think.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Heather Barwick was raised by her mother and her mother's same-sex partner. She is a former gay-marriage advocate turned children's rights activist. She is a wife and mother of four rambunctious kids.

[Hostage]

Great article!

A mother and a father are both needed.

[Fido969]

Liberals kill babies as part of their “sacrament”. They have condemned half a generation of African Americans to hopelessness, despair and government dependence. They have used the public school to turn people into slogan-repeating people ignorant of logic, science, responsibility and truth.

You think they care that children of “gay marriage” are hurting?

[11th Commandment]

She is not the first to come out, nor will she be the last...

[newfreep]

Liberals kill babies as part of their “sacrament”. They have condemned half a generation of African Americans to hopelessness, despair and government dependence. They have used the public school to turn people into slogan-repeating people ignorant of logic, science, responsibility and truth.

Worth repeating again and again and again and...

[Mich Patriot]

They don’t care...it’s the “you WILL accept our lifestyle no matter what” attitude.

[Impala64ssa]

ping for later