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Daughter of Two Moms Comes Out Against Gay Marriage
Yahoo.com (I know, I can't believe it either) ^ | 3/20/15 | Beth Greenfield

Posted on 03/20/2015 6:49:23 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper

A South Carolina woman’s new essay about being raised by her lesbian mom contains a surprising revelation: she opposes marriage equality.

“Gay community, I am your daughter. My mom raised me with her same-sex partner back in the ’80s and ’90s,” writes Heather Barwick, a 31-year-old mother of four, in The Federalist. “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. It’s not because you’re gay. I love you, so much. It’s because of the nature of the same-sex relationship itself.”

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KEYWORDS: homosexualagenda; marriage; parenting; psychology; scotus; sexuality; truth
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I know this might have been mentioned in earlier threads. I am just stuned because it was on the front page of att/yahoo this morning.

Of course, Beth Greenfield, the "journalist" who penned the piece, wouldn't expound much on the writings of Heather Barwick--the woman who opposes SSM. Instead, she spends 6 of the 12 paragraphs on the article citing homosexuals who say she is wrong, and her story doesn't matter.

1 posted on 03/20/2015 6:49:23 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: SoFloFreeper

World Magazine’s March 21, 2015 has a great article on this subject - page 44: “The Kids are NOT All Right”.


2 posted on 03/20/2015 6:55:58 AM PDT by QBFimi (/...o.o/.o...ooo/...o.o...o/ooo/...o.o/.o/ooo.//o..o./. o.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Exactly, the author marginalized the young woman’s story as if she were Jerry Falwell opining on the subject. There was real vehement Hate for her because she didn’t agree with the official narrative.


3 posted on 03/20/2015 6:58:09 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If you are not part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Yahoo only posted this article as a vehicle to attack Heather Barwick with the replies of a bunch of homosexual activists. Barwick makes a solid argument, a second mother or a second father cannot replace the father or mother that is lost in a homosexual relationship. There is a reason why God created families with one mother and one father. Children need to be raised by both.


4 posted on 03/20/2015 6:59:07 AM PDT by LeoMcNeil
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To: SoFloFreeper
Don't you realize that liberals have decided the subject is settled.

Any further complaints will illicit a "hate crime" indictment, loss of job or social ostracizing which ever is more convenient to the thought police.

5 posted on 03/20/2015 6:59:15 AM PDT by Pietro
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To: SoFloFreeper

The homos who argue that she (the daughter) is denying them their rights are the ones in denial about their effed up lifestyle.


6 posted on 03/20/2015 6:59:18 AM PDT by fivecatsandadog ("Islam is Islam. There are no modifiers. It's a political movement masquerading as a religion.")
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To: SoFloFreeper

Looks like mainly denial and personal attacks to me. That’s fallacious reasoning if I ever saw it. Sounds like some people not wanting to put this out of writing shows that some people really can’t let it down because it is at least somewhat correct.


7 posted on 03/20/2015 6:59:36 AM PDT by Morpheus2009
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To: SoFloFreeper

A kid has a right to a normal set of parents. Conceiving a child and depriving it of one half of a normal set is child abuse.


8 posted on 03/20/2015 7:00:35 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: SoFloFreeper
Daughter of Two Moms ...
Biologically impossible.
9 posted on 03/20/2015 7:01:42 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: SoFloFreeper

My wife is the product of the same upbringing. Her mother decided after having 2 children and 5 years of marriage that she was gay and moved out. It was her moms partner that made my wife detest lesbian relationships. He moms partner hated men so much that my wife said they would have these lesbian couples over and they would all rant how much they all hated men. She said at first it confused her, and then she saw how they fed off each other on the hated. Today she still doesn’t like lesbian women because of the hatred many have. She said they are more intolerant of her being straight than she being intolerant of them being lesbian.


10 posted on 03/20/2015 7:02:10 AM PDT by realcleanguy
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I hope she still cares for her mother. Grace may yet redeem her...thanks for sharing.


11 posted on 03/20/2015 7:03:57 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: SoFloFreeper
While I sympathize with Heather’s pain caused by being abandoned by her heterosexual father, her pain has nothing to do with same-sex marriage. We are all entitled to our personal narratives, but I strongly disagree with Heather’s contrived attempt to offer her personal story as a case for blocking other families’ access to marriage rights.”

You are entitled to your relationship. You have the right to associate with whom you like.

You are not entitled to change the definition of marriage.

12 posted on 03/20/2015 7:07:40 AM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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Her mother passed away 5 years ago. Her partner however lived until this year. It’s funny, her mom was the one who had a career, savings, 401K, IRA, etc. When her mom passed away, her partner made sure there was no inheritance for my wife and her brother and left all what was left to her niece in Indiana. It’s not like we needed any of it, but it was the point. By the way, the niece she left it all to is also a lesbian. Just more of her mom’s partners hate of heterosexuals.


13 posted on 03/20/2015 7:08:58 AM PDT by realcleanguy
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To: SoFloFreeper
contains a surprising revelation

Only to the Libs in the media.

14 posted on 03/20/2015 7:09:56 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: LeoMcNeil

>> Yahoo only posted this article as a vehicle to attack Heather Barwick ...

That’s kept me as a subscriber of World Magazine for some 20 years now. Subscription is not cheap - $60 for a year’s biweekly issues, but the Christian, pro-Israel perspective makes it a great substitute for the leftist crap printed in Time or Newsweek.


15 posted on 03/20/2015 7:11:46 AM PDT by QBFimi (/...o.o/.o...ooo/...o.o...o/ooo/...o.o/.o/ooo.//o..o./. o.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Her essay in a nutshell, even in the best of circumstances, a gay household is a empty facade.


16 posted on 03/20/2015 7:12:12 AM PDT by moehoward
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“Same-sex marriage and parenting withholds either a mother or father from a child while telling him or her that it doesn’t matter. That it’s all the same. But it’s not,” she writes. “A lot of us, a lot of your kids, are hurting. 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.”

But while her argument is heartfelt, note some gay-parenting supporters, it’s also full of holes.

They didn't list any holes that I saw. The very next paragraph is merely a turdburglar homoagenda activist saying she is wrong.

So... that settles THAT?

WRONG!

Just because some fudgepacker says something about gay "marriage" doesn't mean he is some authority on the needs of children.

17 posted on 03/20/2015 7:12:48 AM PDT by Rodamala
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"They didn't list any holes that I saw. The very next paragraph is merely a turdburglar homoagenda activist saying she is wrong.

So... that settles THAT?"

Does a lib ever support an argument with a few factual nuggets? Sounds like a typical exchange to me.

18 posted on 03/20/2015 7:22:36 AM PDT by moehoward
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To: SoFloFreeper

So she’s the “Heather” from “Heather has two mommies” and the gaystapo have their collective panties in a wad (hmmm, poor choice of words when dealing with this demographic?) I could just envision her mom and “significant other” lamenting “where did we go wrong?!??” But hey, it’s all good, things will work out. Supposedly around 4% of the population have homosexual tendencies, that’s 1 in 20 who are “born that way” Odds are somebody in the Duck Dynasty clan or the Duggar family will come out before long, and the LGBT/FUBAR community will have the mother of all spontaneous orgasms if and when that happens.


19 posted on 03/20/2015 7:28:48 AM PDT by Impala64ssa (You call me an islamophobe like it's a bad thing.)
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To: SoFloFreeper
Sounds like she is against gay/lesbian parenting, that it excludes either the mother or father role. Opposing gay marriage is not the same thing; Parenting is her focus. Guess logic has no place in today's discourse. Like the comment about denying civil rights - clearly begging the question.

Single parenting also excludes one key role.

20 posted on 03/20/2015 7:49:20 AM PDT by Dilbert56
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