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Couple's gender secret for baby touches off debate
AP ^ | May 27, 2011

Posted on 05/28/2011 7:47:27 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement

NEW YORK – Ridiculous or ultra-enlightened? A Toronto couple's decision to keep the gender of their 4-month-old baby a secret has touched off a sometimes nasty debate over how far parents should go in protecting young ones from society's boy-girl biases.

Kathy Witterick and David Stocker recently landed on the front page of the Toronto Star, explaining that they hope their third child, Storm, can remain untouched by the connotations of pink versus blue, male versus female, long enough to make up his or her own mind.

The decision has online haters and supporters of the family on hyperdrive. Child development experts, meanwhile, question the impact on the cherubic infant later in life and whether the couple has gone too far in their quest for gender neutrality.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: child; childabuse; family; gender; homosexualagenda; moralabsolutes
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I wonder if the child gets to pick what time he/she/it gets to go to sleep at night, too.
1 posted on 05/28/2011 7:47:32 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement
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These people are idiots.

Perverted idiots.


2 posted on 05/28/2011 7:49:01 AM PDT by Westbrook (Having children does not divide your love, it multiplies it.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

It’s Pat!


3 posted on 05/28/2011 7:50:31 AM PDT by Notasoccermom
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To: ConservativeStatement

It’s Pat!


4 posted on 05/28/2011 7:50:45 AM PDT by Notasoccermom
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To: ConservativeStatement

It’s Pat!


5 posted on 05/28/2011 7:51:00 AM PDT by Notasoccermom
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“how far parents should go in protecting young ones from society’s boy-girl biases.”

Speaking of bias....


6 posted on 05/28/2011 7:51:41 AM PDT by Psycho_Bunny (Public employee unions are the barbarian hordes of our time.)
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To: Westbrook

Some people should not be parents.


7 posted on 05/28/2011 7:52:25 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: ConservativeStatement

I thought all Canadians were gender secret.


8 posted on 05/28/2011 7:53:28 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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Lets hope that “it” will be so confused that it won’t procreate.

If anything is absolutely true, it is the fact that if you don’t procreate, your lineage will die out.

Natural Selection.


9 posted on 05/28/2011 7:54:17 AM PDT by dhs12345
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To: ConservativeStatement

Ridiculous or enlightened? How about cruel and perverted.


10 posted on 05/28/2011 7:54:24 AM PDT by pnh102 (Regarding liberalism, always attribute to malice what you think can be explained by stupidity. - Me)
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Kathy Witterick and David Stocker... hope their third child, Storm, can remain untouched by the connotations of pink versus blue, male versus female, long enough to make up his or her own mind.

I'd bet money that in the Witterick household, David is forced to pee sitting down.

11 posted on 05/28/2011 7:54:50 AM PDT by Gena Bukin
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>>long enough to make up his or her own mind.

And on that glorious day, a penis or vagina will magically appear on baby Storm (or wil it be toddler Storm, or pre-teen Storm, or teenager Storm, or even adult baby Storm?).


12 posted on 05/28/2011 7:58:48 AM PDT by Bryanw92 (We don't need to win elections. We need to win a revolution.)
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If a boy, maybe they dress him in girls clothes to see if he feels more comfy.


13 posted on 05/28/2011 7:59:41 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement (Obama "acted stupidly.")
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"Soon after the baby was born, in a pool of water at home, Witterick, 38, and Stocker, 39, sent an email announcing to loved ones: "We've decided not to share Storm's sex for now — a tribute to freedom and choice in place of limitation, a stand up to what the world could become in Storm's lifetime (a more progressive place? ...)."


WTF?
(Liberalism is a mental disorder)

14 posted on 05/28/2011 8:00:36 AM PDT by Baynative (Truth is treason in an empire of lies)
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To: Westbrook

More modern mental illness.


15 posted on 05/28/2011 8:01:06 AM PDT by achilles2000 ("I'll agree to save the whales as long as we can deport the liberals")
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Lets hope that “it” will be so confused that it won’t procreate.

None of this is the kid's fault. Really, it's the parents who shouldn't be allowed to procreate. Can anyone else see years of intense psycho therapy in this poor kid's future?

Like Savage always says, "Liberalism is a Mental Disorder."

16 posted on 05/28/2011 8:04:21 AM PDT by YankeeReb
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patsnl
17 posted on 05/28/2011 8:12:16 AM PDT by FrankR (A people that values its privileges above its principles will soon lose both.)
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To: YankeeReb

But that is nature and natural selection.

In the wild, the children don’t survive if the parents are stupid.

It is ironic that secularist Liberals believe in natural selection... except when it applies to them.


18 posted on 05/28/2011 8:18:11 AM PDT by dhs12345
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To: ConservativeStatement

“The decision has online haters and supporters of the family on hyperdrive.”

No bias in this reporter. I thought the antonym of “supporter” was “opponent.”

My Bad.


19 posted on 05/28/2011 8:25:37 AM PDT by paterfamilias
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“Speaking of bias....”

Good point! And I’m sure they’ve embraced and flaunted their preconceived “holy, higher planed enlightenment” everywhere anyone will give them the attention. Idiots.


20 posted on 05/28/2011 8:38:21 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper (Fix bayonets!)
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