The Expense of Spirit (A lesbian’s sperm donor is hoist with his own petard.)

City Journal ^ | 25 October 2005 | Theodore Dalrymple

[righttackle44]

"(A lesbian’s sperm donor is hoist with his own petard.)"

I don't understand this. Is this anything like "A lebian donor's petard are belong to us?"

[Tax-chick]

when he donated sperm to make a life, he made a decision to make a child.

Clearly :-). I think they mean the mother decided to "have the children," in the sense of giving birth and rearing them, while the donor intended to not have anything to do with them.

[gitmo]

It seems they were trying to "have children" together but obviously couldn't ...

Now THAT's a pathetic picture. Reminds me of an old dog ... never mind.

[gitmo]

5,000 years of Judeo-Christianity, dismantled in a single decade.

I think you are premature in your declaration of death.

[LonePalm]

Actually, in this case, they are for turkeys(human variety).

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

[OldBlondBabe]

"A government big enough to give you everything you want, is big enough to take away everything you have."

Excellent. Is the quote yours? I'd like my daughter to tell this to her stupid, liberal, socialist-loving government teacher.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

"Her former lover was unwilling, because—after all—she was no relation of the children."

But, but...I thought lesbian women were so caring and committed to Hearth, Home & Family? I thought it was all "For The Children?" I thought that gays were the Standard Bearers that our heterosexual marriages were to be held up to, examined and judged against?

Oh, wait...my sister is gay. She's changed "girlfriends" over the years as often as I've changed my socks. Nevermind...

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Senator Barry Goldwater. :)

[Albion Wilde]

I think you are premature in your declaration of death.

I said "dismantled", not "destroyed." Still hoping it can be put back together again by a younger generation disgusted with their hippie grandparents.

[ClearCase_guy]

"A government big enough to give you everything you want, is big enough to take away everything you have."

Often attributed to Thomas Jefferson, don't know where (perhaps a letter).

The quote was used by both Ronald Reagan and Gerald Ford.

[MoochPooch]

Shows the quality of these lesbian "marriages". Both of them feel they're entitled to children, because in their own eyes they are "parents." Suddenly one of them decides she really isn't a "parent" after all -- even though she emphatically stated earlier that she was.

I don't know whose thinking is more distorted: this idiot of a father, who willingly gave his sperm without considering the consequences. Makes me wonder how the kids will turn out --genetically, that is. I think these kind of people -- both "liberal-minded" sperm donors and lesbians -- are of some pretty defective stock.

I really pray that sperm banks be closed down. Period. When conception has become considered little more than an assembly line, you know we have morally hit the skids.

[bill1952]

Another result of "big" government.

Most people don't even know that the key word in Nazi is "Socialist."