Posted on 12/23/2007 12:23:20 PM PST by pabianice
Your family issue is so disappointingly heterosexist that I’ve re-titled it “Your Families, Your Selves.” Besides Badgett’s essay (more about research than real people) and one reference to same-sex households in Krause’s essay, gay families are glaringly under-covered—particularly when you consider this moment in U.S. social history. Even Moscardelli fails to mention how the term “family values” was insidiously manufactured and used as a political code for “hetero” values. If one knew nothing about it and read this issue, it would appear that same-sex families (with or without children) were still a theoretical idea or experiment.
Newsflash: Northampton is famously knows as the Lesbian Capital of America. Was there not one same-sex family from that community who could have been given a voice in this discussion?
David Brown ’92, New York, New York
I think this “guy’s” anti-crazy meds ran out.
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The truth about gay people and their cobbled-together “families” trying to equate themselves with the natural married-parents-with-children family unit is that they HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THEY’RE TALKING ABOUT.
We have long since quit giving any money to our Alma Mater (UNH) as they are so far around the left turn that we don’t even recognize the place any more.
I am a proud heterosexist!
;^)
Flag-burning is also popular in Northampton:
The homeowner’s daughter is in the military, and his son is planning to join as soon as he turns 18.
The truth is that society’s current interest in homos is a fad and like mood rings and polyester suits that interest will disappear in a few years. A neurotic aberration afflicting 3% of the population can’t sustain a long term change in societal views.
“The truth is that society’s current interest in homos is a fad and like mood rings and polyester suits that interest will disappear in a few years. A neurotic aberration afflicting 3% of the population can’t sustain a long term change in societal views.”
I hope you’re right, but I think it’s going to take longer than any of us here would want. Young people have been trained to be “tolerant”, meaning intolerant of traditional views. I personally think we’re going to have to re-learn old lessons the hard way. In other words, younger people, on average, will die earlier than the Boomers from all of this sexual experimentation. More kids who have been raised in same-sex households will begin to speak out. Journalists will “discover” that children are best off with mothers and fathers and this will be reported as if it’s a new and exciting liberal discovery. JMHO
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