In a nutshell. Catholic bump.
Some of them are really emotionally abused. I witnessed this with a lesbian couple. The 11-year old son of one of them (the 'Dad') wanted to play with my kids and we asked, nicely, if he could join the birthday party and have some cake. We were refused, and I got the distinct impression she didn't want her son playing with straight people's kids. After that she harangued him, carrying on, all sorts of verbal abuse. The kid's crime? He just wanted to play and have some cake, for heaven's sake--and as it was my daughter who invited him, that must have really ticked her off!
It got so bad, I really did cast sympathetic glances at both the kid and the by-now shamefaced 'wife'. It wouldn't surprise me one day if I read in the paper that this kid has shot his biological lesbian mother dead. I can never forget their faces. Heaven knows what sort of hellish life she makes for him that is not in public view. I'd sure seen enough. She treated him like she hated his guts. And we're supposed to be tolerant of this?
Hopefully, there is a saving grace. I pray that he remembers he was treated with kindness at least once in his life, and by (gasp) straight and Christian people!