Posted on 02/18/2005 7:11:48 AM PST by srm913
Why can't my moms marry? His parents have been together for 27 years, yet many still question their right to tie the knot, says Matthew Eaton-Kent
It was the day before Father's Day and my Grade 1 class was just putting the finishing touches on the wooden desk organizers we had made. My class had spent weeks sanding down the blocks of wood, adding magnets for paper clips, holders for pens and a spot for an eraser. Today was the day we were going to engrave the word "Dad" into the top of the organizers.
I had worked really hard on my present but I had a problem. I was not going to give my organizer to my dad because I didn't have one. I was going to give my present to one of my two moms.
I wasn't sure what she would think if I brought it home and it had the word dad on it. So I sat there quietly as all the other children took turns hammering the metal stamps, which read "dad," into the wood. I was getting nervous as my turn with the engraving tool grew closer. Finally, I got up and approached the teacher's desk.
She asked me what was wrong. I reluctantly told her that I didn't have a dad and that I was making this gift for my mother. She told me I had nothing to worry about and handed me the stamps with the "m" and "o" for mom.
That's how it has always been in my family. One of my mother's celebrates Mother's Day while the other celebrates Father's Day. Sure, it was a bit awkward at school but it didn't make my family any less of a family. In fact we kids thought it was a great way to recognize both of our moms.
However, there is something that makes my family different from a lot of families. The difference is that my parents have never been married.
The reason my parents have never been married is not because they don't want to but because, by law, they couldn't.
Their relationship was not recognized because marriage was defined as between a man and a woman. It has been very hurtful to my parents, the gay community and believers in human rights that there has been so much opposition to same-sex marriage. It's been hurtful to my sister and me, too. Very hurtful!
Personally I am perplexed by the extreme opposition to changing the definition of marriage so it can include unions between two people, any two people. As someone born into a generation of political correctness and void of any blatant racism, sexism or xenophobia, it is hard to deal with the hateful nature of the opponents of same-sex marriage.
I am not sure why they don't view the love of my parents as equal to the love between two people of the opposite sex. If they question the commitment, they should note the 27 years my parents have spent together and the way they have cherished my sister and me.
I find a lot of the hate and opposition comes from many of the institutions that promote peace, love and understanding. Some churches have fought the right of same-sex couples to marry.
I wish they would look back in history to a time when religious freedom was jeopardized. People who were historically persecuted are all too willing to be prejudiced, all in the name of God.
I am a teenager growing up in an era of equality, an era where blacks are equal to whites, where a man is equal to a woman. This era should include same-sex marriage and my parents.
All of us are made in the image of God, are we not?
Matthew Eaton-Kent, 17, is a Grade 11 honours student and avid athlete. He lives with his two moms, 14-year-old sister, two dogs and one cat in Halton Hills, just outside Toronto.
...either as receptacles, or as myrmidons.
These people are MUCH more insidious than that. They'll harvest eggs from one, fertilize in vitro, and implant in the other. That way they can both claim parentage.
Wow, I can only imagine what that "birds and bees" conversation would be like... these people are really into racking up the offenses against God, aren't they?
Don't you believe that for a minute! I just spent two days defending a public figure from "conservatives" on this very forum who couldn't see past the fact he disowned his daughter for treasonous actvity, because she was culturally astute enough to imply he did it because she was a homosexual. I'm telling you their responses of vituperation and ridicule against him were damn near pavlovian.
I think the title itself ("Why Can't My Moms Marry?") is enough of a barf alert.
Does this person think that he is the only kid without a DAD on Father's Day? After that length of time together, why would they want to get offically married?
Ping
Stop using Gay. They have co-opted the word. I use homosexual.
Obviously they are just as legally able to marry as any other women; they simply choose not to.
"Come to think of it, his last name sounds like a really tasteless pun."
Tasteless pun.....Aahhgg
They CAN marry. But they cannot marry each other. They are both women...
John 8:42-44 Jesus said to them,If God were your Father,you would love me,for I came from God,and now am here.I have not
come on my own;but He sent me.Why is my language not clear to you?Because you are unable to hear what I say.You belong to your father th eDevil,and you want to carry out your fathers desire.He was a murderer from the beginning,not holding to the truth,for there is no truth in him.when he lies he speaks his native language,for he is a liar and the father of lies."NIV but consistant with KJV and others. This passage is consistant with parable of the seed,and parable of the Tares.And also with passages where Jesus speaks of His mother,brother etc. (Luke 8:19-21)And also fits actions and lifestyle choice of those spoken of in this thread.IMO
I won't argue with you on that issue. I'll have to look around for that thread.
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Am I going out on a limb to say that this poor kid, and his sister, are probably hopelessly lost, never to be normal now, no matter WHAT one could do, to change the absolutely satanic home environment he lives in now?
"As someone who grew up in a PC society", yeah... and now, you are forever ruined thanks to your two "moms".
"Why can't my mom's marry?" If I had it my way, your mom's biggest worry wouldn't be "getting married", it would be .....Oh....I better stop, before I get banned, as a "fringe kook".
And THIS is why they adopt kids , so they can use them to manipulate the system, and the people in it.
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