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First of all, the reporter may not know if the women are actually lesbians. It is very likely that the reporter has told the reader everything known about the two. Would you rather the writer infer "facts" or would you rather the writer give us the story and let us decide the situation at hand.

"should have been included as an obvious fact."

If it is obvious, then why point it out? We had record highs today. The sun causes the heat we have experienced.

First of all, the reporter may not know if the women are actually lesbians.

This was mentioned 3/4ths of the way down a prior article--also an outrage, since it belongs up top that they have been "partners" for seven years.

We had record highs today. The sun causes the heat we have experienced.

That's different. There's no conspiracy to deny the sun's involvement. Also, there are no loose ends in the story that require such an explanation. The reporter has done a hand-stand here to avoid mentioning the homosexuality, whereas he was all too eager to mention that they homeschool. He doesn't want to give the impression that homosexual parenthood is moral terrorism against children--which, by the way, is the truth of the matter.

Conversely, if the reporter had left out the part about homeschooling, wouldn't you wonder why no one had missed the kids at school? Well, in the same way, intelligent readers coming across this story at first must wonder why the hell there are two women there locking the kids up, and why one of them wants to be called "dad." Not that they can't guess it themselves, but reporters are not supposed to leave readers hanging like that--they're supposed to make the calls and figure it out.