Lesbians: We Made Our Baby Deaf on Purpose [we've reached the bottom of the slippery slope]

This Is London ^ | 4-8-2002 | James Langton

[wwjdn]

Too bad they couldn't find a perverted, IQ challenged donor also. Homosexuals shoudln't have children and shouldn't be allowed to raise them either. What are they going to do with a boy? I know what they intend for the poor girl...

[ladtx]

The really sad thing is that in about 10 years this deaf child gets to ask - "Mom, does this mean I could have been born able to hear the birds, Beethoven, and a babbling brook?"

Thanks Mom.

[Lizavetta]

Both women, who are in their mid thirties, belong to a radical school of thought that believes deafness is a "cultural identity" not a handicap.

Their daughter attends a special kindergarten for children with hearing problems.

Anyone else besides me see a contradiction here? It's not a handicap, see, but she's in special ed because of her 'non-handicap'.

[patent]

Strange.

[A Navy Vet]

I thought I had heard it all.

[Bikers4Bush]

What a loving thing for a parent to do, intentionally deprive a child of one of their senses.

[Notwithstanding]

Please add to breaking news. This is new to FR and of great interest to FReepers.

[ken5050]

Wanna bet that both work for the government....or that one is a special ed teacher...

[HEY4QDEMS]

Tomorrow you will read about a family who had their children taken away because they had a "messy house"

I really bothers me that millions of extra tax payer dollars will be used to specially train and educate a "CULTURAL IDENTITY" that was purposely imposed on an innocent child.

[ken5050]

Is it curious that this story, about a New Jersey gay couple, comes out of the London papers, and NOT a US paper....has anyone done a search?

[gridlock]

...we've reached the bottom of the slippery slope

Sorry, Notwithstanding, this is not the bottom. It's a heck of a long ride down from here. But I don't doubt that we'll get there soon enough.

This case is just the latest expression of "Identity Politics". These women see themselves as homosexual or deaf, not as human beings. Identity Politics always seeks to accentuate what divides people, and to put people into different groups. It is the "divide" portion of "divide and conquer". These women are so invested with the importance of being deaf that they cannot see anything else. It's a form of insanity, IMHO, and one that is becoming all the more common as one particular American political party makes identity politics a core value.

[Williams]

So long as they keep the boy out of evil organizations like the Boy Scouts, I don't see the problem. Sounds like the perfect liberal family.

On a related note, gays used to argue quite violently that it is completely genetic and they cannot be held "responsible" for their behavior. Now they are beginning to say that it's not all genetic. The NYT Science section had an article on this not too long ago. That's where the NYT hides all the politically incorrect reality, like the fact that the recent Antarctic meltings weren't caused by global warming.

I could have told them 25 years ago that the lesbian feminist professors at my college were telling their pretty female disciples they had to try lesbianism to prove they can "live completely w/o a man"

To paraphrase the two wackos in this article, I'm sure the gays Rosie is finding children for with her adoption agency will consider it a "special blessing" if the kids just happen to grow up gay.

[Sloth]

Next week they will gouge the kids' eyes out with a spoon, just to show how much they love them.

[I still care]

Absolutely. Nobody goes to a special kindergarten for "cultural identity", which is what they think they have given this child. If they want special services, they should pay for them.

Can you imagine the bitterness this child will feel when he is older? He was created incomplete on purpose. These women also sound like they are trying to take away his last hearing, too. I think they should take this baby away, I really do. I rarely say that, but God forbid, but they sound like they want to finish the job. Maybe they just will decide to avoid the heat and shove a pencil in his ear or something.

[johniegrad]

ALREADY POSTED HERE

[Notwithstanding]

Lexis/Nexis Searcch:

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1.	Herald Sun,  April 9, 2002, Tuesday,  NEWS; Pg. 7,  549 words,  Baby Gauvin was born to be deaf  ... Gauvin as a deaf child. "I understand where they are coming from," he ...  ... parents would like to have a deaf child, but most of them take what they ...  ... Mr Rope said the lesbian couple would not consider their son was disadvantaged. "Deaf people, quite rightly, ...

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2.	DAILY MAIL (London),  April 8, 2002,  536 words  ... born deaf because that is what a lesbian couple wanted. Gauvin ...  ... McCullough's parents, who have been deaf since birth, went to extraordinary lengths to ensure their child would share their disability. They have even ...

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3.	Courier Mail,  April 6, 2002, Saturday,  NEWS; Pg. 4,  367 words,  Lesbians admit plan to create deaf child,  Chris Griffith  DEAFNESS (92%); GAYS & LESBIANS (90%); PHYSICIANS & SURGEONS ( ...  ... DISEASES & DISORDERS (90%); CHILDREN (78%); REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGY ( ...

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4.	PR Newswire,  April 1, 2002, Monday,  WASHINGTON DATELINE,  360 words,  Washington Post Profiles Lesbian Couple Seeking to Manufacture a Deaf Child; 'This reduces the father to a mere inseminator, raises the prospects of donor shopping and designer genes, and turns a baby into a trophy,' Says FRC's Ken Connor,  WASHINGTON, April 1  ... DC-FRC-LsbianDeafChld; Children's Related News; Women's Related News GAYS & LESBIANS (91%); DEAFNESS (90%); CHILDREN (69%);

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5.	The Washington Post,  March 31, 2002, Sunday, Final Edition,  MAGAZINE; Pg. W22,  8702 words,  A World of Their Own; In the eyes of his parents, if Gauvin Hughes McCullough turns out to be deaf, that will be just perfect,  Liza Mundy  ... once had but dismissed: to have children. She assumed they couldn't, not because they were deaf but because they were lesbians. It is not Candy's ...

[Trinity5]

"I thought I had heard it all."

Did you try that play on words?!?

[I still care]

I think the WA Post had a very long article on this, several pages supposedly very compassionate to the witches. I am not sure, this is just what I seem to remember.

[sweetliberty]

Oh, but fags homosexuals make such GOOD parents and should be allowed to adopt. < /sarcasm >

[Notwithstanding]

Strangely this sick image made me laugh out loud due its ludicrous nature. Sadly, it seems entirely plausible.