My father’s gay marriage (WaPo OpEd)

The Washington Post ^ | 4/6/2013 | Susan Meader Tobias

[dragonblustar]

The author would not have been born if his father married a man.

No matter how much they try, sperm enemas won’t make a gay man pregnant.

[beandog]

I don’t either. Who the heck would have told her that her father was found in bed with another boy at the age of 12. She just made the whole thing up for her 15 minutes of fame. Liberals do it all the time.

[Cicero]

Sure, the author might be the one who’s really nuts, insteadd. But I’m afraid it sounds as if both she and her father are a bit nuts. (Note: Not to be taken as an authorized psychiatric opinion.)

[happyhomemaker]

I agree. Could not get past the whole “found in bed with another boy at 12 years” fact.

[a fool in paradise]

I don’t either. Who the heck would have told her that her father was found in bed with another boy at the age of 12. She just made the whole thing up for her 15 minutes of fame. Liberals do it all the time.

Maybe her father told her. But maybe he didn't tell her everything about his sexual experiences including the possibility of adult-minor molestation.

[a fool in paradise]

"Gays have always been able to marry. But I fail to see how society is strengthened when they are forced by convention to marry someone whose body is unattractive to them, whose voice isn’t what they want to hear in the morning or whose touch may be as grating as sand in the bed."

(from her editorial)

Hmm. Explain Robert Mapplethorpe who repeatedly shagged Patti Smith for years even after he'd started experimenting with men and S&M.

Plenty of supposedly "gay" men are obsessed with women. Perhaps Andy Warhol turned queer because of predators in the art scene and horndogs who worked hard (including Dylan) to get Edie Sedgwick away from him. He lost his virginity somewhat "late" in life according to the documentary about him.

The homosexuals who seem to have an aversion to vaginas appear to have "mother" issues.

Plenty of homosexual men running around with drag queens DRESSED as women, sometimes even with breasts surgically affixed. If you don't like the equipment and the trappings, it seems far fetched to believe that they were "born" looking for "crossdressers" and "surgical post-op transexuals".

[a fool in paradise]

Is this a boo hoo story by someone who wishes she did not exist? My mom was heterosexual, my dad was homosexual, and somehow I came to be and life was horrible and I wish I were never born.

If she's going to stick by her tale that her daddy was physically disgusted by women yet raised 4 children, perhaps she is bemoaning never coming to know her REAL dad.

[SoldierDad]

Points well taken. There may be a small percentage of these people born with a predisposition towards sexual deviance. However, there is no evidence of a “gay” gene, and, considering the extremely small percentage of people engaged in this type of behavior, it is, in fact, a disorder. There are people born with a predisposition for schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, depression, borderline personality disorder, narcissism, etc. Society does not (yet, anyway) call these things “normal” variants of the human condition. Pedophiles and sexual offenders may be born with a predisposition for those behaviors, but are we contemplating calling those behaviors a variant of normal human behavior? I think not.

[Colonel_Flagg]

My father’s gay marriage

Sorry, no such thing.

[SoCal SoCon]

“And if his father was really homosexual, how did he manage to actually sleep with a woman and make children. It should have been repulsive to him.”

Some folks bat for both teams.