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.
Not necssarily. The other may be a step "parent", meaning one had kids, then hooked up with the other.
Do not bother sending this kid to plumbing trade school.
Exactly, don't use the restroom where the plumbing doesn't work!!!!
It stinks there, in more ways than one.
I don't want to marry it, but if I don't can it sue me for palimony?
I seem to recall that liberal policies were glorifying unwed relationships and children born out of wedlock. It appears that they wish to turn all of societal relationships upside down.
It was all part of the plan, since the seventies. They want no moral code at all.
LoL...................................
Matthew, I have some bad news for you. Not only can you not have two moms, but a woman can't be a father. If they've been teaching you this I think you should suggest they see a psychologist. Denying reality is a sign of mental illness. Fortunately, there is help.
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.
Matthew, they aren't your parents. One of them may be, but not both. It takes a man and a woman to have a child. That's the nature of our species. And we don't question their love, we question their sexual relationship. Many men love other men and many women love other women. They just don't have sex with each other or pretend they are married.
I hope those two women you are calling your mothers have taught you the difference between love and lust. It's an important difference every young man should understand. For example, you probably love your "moms" but I hope you never have sex with them.
Call me hateful if you want. I don't call telling it like it is a hateful act. I call branding everyone who disagrees with you as "hateful" a hateful act.
Shalom.
And I'm sure the denial of basic healthcare for your cat has caused you untold misery.
No, that would be polygamy and that's still against the law.
If I read the article correctly, it was a Grade 1 class. He's writing about a memory.
Presuming he exists and the class ever existed, of course.
Shalom.
you're cat posted a thread the other day saying it just wanted to live together.
Don't you think you should shack up with the second wife first, just to try out the relationship?
That way, if it doesn't work, you can just try other women until you find Mrs. Other Right.
Shalom.
and so did your cat
I thought it was a perfectly normal family until I read the third line. This family needs serious help.
Just kidding, of course. I've never even heard of Evanescence.
Shalom.
They can marry.
They just can't marry another woman ,or a horse,a ape, it must be a human male that is not already married.
Simple, it's impossible to have Two moms. Case closed !
Jenny, you're in for a world of trouble. I know. I speak from experience. Oh, yeah, at first my marriage was perfect. But nothing stays perfect for long. Soon I was fighting with myself like cats and dogs. The neighbors would complain about the noise. Sometimes I kept myself up so late at night that I couldn't go in to work the next morning. Finally I decided we wanted a divorce.
But that created its own problems. I was really bitter and started stalking myself so I had to get a court injunction prohibiting me from coming within 100 feet of myself. But even though I violated the order all the time I could never call the police on myself. Finally I got violent and committed self-abuse. It was just awful.
I'd say Jenny should get out now while she still can.
Shalom.
The child is confused he has only ONE mother and a father "somewhere unknown".
That other woman is just the recreational sex partner of his mother.
His mother is just a woman with a fetish for orgasms with other woman.
The law does not give a rats posterior (pun intended) about love or emotion.
Dear ArGee,
Excellent point.
As soon as the first Mrs. Right gets on board.
sitetest
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