Posted on 08/09/2012 6:58:41 PM PDT by reaganaut1
WASHINGTON — When the jubilant couple were wed in June, they exchanged personalized vows and titanium rings, cheered the heartfelt toasts and danced themselves breathless. Then, as the evening was winding down, unexpected questions started popping up.
One after another, their guests began asking: Are you going to have kids? When are you going to have kids?
Tom Lotito and Matt Hay, both 26, could not help but feel moved. They never imagined as teenagers that they would ever get married, much less that friends and family members would pester them about having children.
“It’s another way that I feel like what we have is valid in the eyes of other people,” said Mr. Hay, who married Mr. Lotito in June before 133 guests.
As lawmakers and courts expand the legal definition of the American family, same-sex couples are beginning to feel the same what-about-children pressure that heterosexual twosomes have long felt.
For some couples, it is another welcome sign of their increasing inclusion in the American mainstream. But for others, who hear the persistent questions at the office, dinner parties and family get-togethers, the matter can be far more complicated.
Many gay men had resigned themselves to the idea that they would never be accepted by society as loving parents and assumed they would never have children. They grieved that loss and moved on, even as other gay men and lesbians fully embraced childless lives. So the questions can unearth bittersweet feelings and cause deep divisions within a couple over whether to have children at all, now that parenting among same-sex couples is becoming more common.
The process can be also daunting logistically and financially, as would-be parents wrestle with whether to adopt or use a surrogate.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
This pretty much says it all for me, regarding both “same sex marriage,” as well as the topic of this thread:
Scene from Monty Python’s “The Life of Brian.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFBOQzSk14c
Mark
PURE MADNESS
The real question is are they going to induce a woman with money to carry and then turn over her child to a couple of deviants?
Also the proper answer is, NO we can't have children as sodomy doesn't result in offspring.
Asking two men if they are going to have kids is a sure sign you really are quite a stupid, stupid person.
Inseminating feces is how politicians are made.
More propaganda by the MSM. There aren't that many same-sex couples to begin with, and with the very small number of those who want to adopt a child, I wouldn't call that 'becoming more common'.
Yep and 1 Cor 6:9 is also pretty specific too.
“Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders”
See my tagline.
This post needs a mega-barf alert and a PG-13 rating so the young don’t read about these disgusting sodomites
Must be because the polls have a high enough percentage approving of gay marriage. The young are more liberal on this than the older set who grew up knowing right and wrong and went to church even if they didn't listen (it penetrated)
Add to that, that it takes ~20 years to bring up a child, and gay couples don’t normally stay together that long.
That's a thouht worth holding on to.
Sick puppies. Submit to your perversions, and you’ll never be normal.
You only FEEL it, dude. God set it up so it doesn't work that way.
What are they going to fill the cradle with? Bloody feces?
If you put your child up for sadoption can you specify that they do not get adopted by a couple of perverts?
If you put your child up for adoption can you specify that they do not get adopted by a couple of perverts?
Minimal sanity requires major editing in this piece.
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