Posted on 02/18/2005 7:11:48 AM PST by srm913
Why can't my moms marry? His parents have been together for 27 years, yet many still question their right to tie the knot, says Matthew Eaton-Kent
It was the day before Father's Day and my Grade 1 class was just putting the finishing touches on the wooden desk organizers we had made. My class had spent weeks sanding down the blocks of wood, adding magnets for paper clips, holders for pens and a spot for an eraser. Today was the day we were going to engrave the word "Dad" into the top of the organizers.
I had worked really hard on my present but I had a problem. I was not going to give my organizer to my dad because I didn't have one. I was going to give my present to one of my two moms.
I wasn't sure what she would think if I brought it home and it had the word dad on it. So I sat there quietly as all the other children took turns hammering the metal stamps, which read "dad," into the wood. I was getting nervous as my turn with the engraving tool grew closer. Finally, I got up and approached the teacher's desk.
She asked me what was wrong. I reluctantly told her that I didn't have a dad and that I was making this gift for my mother. She told me I had nothing to worry about and handed me the stamps with the "m" and "o" for mom.
That's how it has always been in my family. One of my mother's celebrates Mother's Day while the other celebrates Father's Day. Sure, it was a bit awkward at school but it didn't make my family any less of a family. In fact we kids thought it was a great way to recognize both of our moms.
However, there is something that makes my family different from a lot of families. The difference is that my parents have never been married.
The reason my parents have never been married is not because they don't want to but because, by law, they couldn't.
Their relationship was not recognized because marriage was defined as between a man and a woman. It has been very hurtful to my parents, the gay community and believers in human rights that there has been so much opposition to same-sex marriage. It's been hurtful to my sister and me, too. Very hurtful!
Personally I am perplexed by the extreme opposition to changing the definition of marriage so it can include unions between two people, any two people. As someone born into a generation of political correctness and void of any blatant racism, sexism or xenophobia, it is hard to deal with the hateful nature of the opponents of same-sex marriage.
I am not sure why they don't view the love of my parents as equal to the love between two people of the opposite sex. If they question the commitment, they should note the 27 years my parents have spent together and the way they have cherished my sister and me.
I find a lot of the hate and opposition comes from many of the institutions that promote peace, love and understanding. Some churches have fought the right of same-sex couples to marry.
I wish they would look back in history to a time when religious freedom was jeopardized. People who were historically persecuted are all too willing to be prejudiced, all in the name of God.
I am a teenager growing up in an era of equality, an era where blacks are equal to whites, where a man is equal to a woman. This era should include same-sex marriage and my parents.
All of us are made in the image of God, are we not?
Matthew Eaton-Kent, 17, is a Grade 11 honours student and avid athlete. He lives with his two moms, 14-year-old sister, two dogs and one cat in Halton Hills, just outside Toronto.
Crap, Leftist, Sympathetic, Hit-piece.
Of course the kid has a Dad. The sperm came from somewhere.
I guess that's the one with the rug burns.
who the hell lied to him
And they never would be in the eyes of God, even if the U.S. some day caves in to the homosexual lobby.
If he exists, he's not in therapy. He has been indoctronated by his mother and her homosexual lover.
You don't think homosexuals are 'shouting' plenty now?
Homosexuals already have the legal right to shout.
Oh, no, he'll be in therapy for something completely unrelated. There'll be no connection whatsoever. (And maybe it's best for him that there isn't. He can't change his family so it's probably best to go with it, if he doesn't want to live the rest of his life in bitter anger.)
Thoughtcrime?
ROFLMAO!!
I wonder if this kid was adopted, or if his mother "discovered" her homosexual fetish after a heterosexual coupling?
If you mean his mother, right, he can't change her. The other one is just a sexual partner.
Nomenclature won't help... but a stiff fine, and short jail sentence for the people that "judge" his "family" would be ever so helpful.
My neighbor's dog has on occasion, indicated his love for my knee. Should they run off and get married?
For the same reason you can't be their daughter.
I absolutely agree...his parents SHOULD be married. His mother and her lover should not.
There are how many bazillions of examples of real injustice in the world and the press gives us this one. They are absolutely insane.
However, there is something that makes my family different from a lot of families. The difference is that my parents have never been married.
Oh. So, we should fine or jail people for their opinion or ideas or beliefs, not their actions. If it ever comes to this, expect a civil war. Seriously.
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