Posted on 03/25/2015 7:24:29 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski
Orlando, FL - Heather Barwick, who was raised by two lesbians, shared her compelling story and why she opposes same-sex marriage. Married to a man and raising four children, Heather has come to realize why same-sex marriage is wrong and why it harms children.
In her powerful story, Heather wrote in The Federalist: “Growing up, and even into my 20s, I supported and advocated for gay marriage. It’s only with some time and distance from my childhood that I’m able to reflect on my experiences and recognize the long-term consequences that same-sex parenting had on me. And it’s only now, as I watch my children loving and being loved by their father each day, that I can see the beauty and wisdom in traditional marriage and parenting.”
Heather, who was raised by lesbian mothers, writes what Liberty Counsel has been saying for years: same-sex marriage denies a child either a mom or a dad. “A lot of us, a lot of your kids, are hurting,” Heather wrote. She went on to say, “My father’s absence created a huge hole in me, and I ached every day for a dad. I loved my mom’s partner, but another mom could never have replaced the father I lost.” Heather’s story is a must-read, but her story is not unique. It is repeated over and over again.
“I grew up surrounded by women who said they didn’t need or want a man. Yet, as a little girl, I so desperately wanted a daddy,” Heather wrote. “It is a strange and confusing thing to walk around with this deep-down unquenchable ache for a father, for a man, in a community that says that men are unnecessary...”
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It should be obvious to anyone, even to liberals, that it’s 100% natural to have a mother and a father. Men and women are complementary, in spite of all the hatred the left has for men.
Any other arrangement is contrary to nature.
The wisdom of mommy/daddy parenting cannot be over stressed.
That’s true. But is growing up in an orphanage better than having two mommies?
Two women raising kids is pretty common here in Appalachia but the women are usually family members.
Orphanage????
I once heard a caller ask Rino Medev if it’s better for a child to have one parent or have to gay parents, and his opinion was that it’s much better to have 2 gay parents.
That's invoking the logical fallacy of a false dilemma. A favorite of the Gaystapo.
I wouldn’t mind two “gay” parents, as long as one is a man and the other is a woman.
For the same reason two Daddies cannot replace Mommy.
I agree completely. But we also have to be honest and realize that virtually all the children growing up without a father are not in that sitution because their mom is a lesbian. Society has other problems that are causing that.
It’s pretty pathetic that we now have to argue the merits of what was unquestioned facts of life for millennia.
Interesting...not sure who Rino Medev is, however I think that in God’s Universe, 2 Gay parents creates only confusion and potential victimization with Children...
The best mother in the world is a *lousy* father.The best father in the world is a *lousy* mother.
How did a good word like “gay” get co-opted and redefined by the Sodomites?
Duh.
Two Mommies and a battery can never replace a daddy.
I would never dispute that two men or two women could do a good job at many parenting tasks--- in the sense of being able to feed, clothe, shelter and educate a child, be warm and responsive, shield him from danger, and foster his God-given gifts. These competencies may be found in SS couples as in mom & dad couples... as well as in orphanages, group homes, mother-grandmother households, or any number of permutations and combinations of caregivers.
Clarence Thomas was raised by his grandfather: so even a single-parent home can produce well-raised kids.
But the very fact that the child is set up for a planned adoption or conception via artificial insemination or IVF or surrogacy --- by two men or two women, means they think that there is nothing particularly desirable about natural fatherhood and motherhood and/or that a child has no right to his mother or father. THEY WANT IT THAT WAY. THEY PLAN IT THAT WAY.
They're deficient in the very area where diversity and balance counts: diversity in relating to a father AND a mother, and balance in experiencing day by day the affective complementarity of marriage: of a man and a woman in a good marital relationship.
Novelist Walker Percy and his two younger brothers were raised well by their homosexual but singleton second cousin, William Alexander Percy, when their parents both (apparently) committed suicide. God protect those who are thrust by happenstance into a broken situation. Bless the caregivers, imperfect as they may be, who do as well as they can. Sometimes --- often --- a child could get stuck in a an unbalanced situation by tragedy or chance.
But it should not be imposed on any child by choice.
“...How did a good word like “gay” get co-opted and redefined by the Sodomites?...”
I don’t know. I still call them what they call themselves.....queers.
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