Divorce is painful, especially so if children are involved. And, being the product of a broken home/family (a child who's parents are divorced) can be very difficult and can follow the child into adulthood. It often affects one's relationships in negative ways. A multitude of psychological and social studies show those results. And, as often happens, the individual looks for someone or something to blame and becomes confused as to who and/or what that should be. The following video posted to the anti-gay Federalist website is from such a child who is now grown and is blaming her problems with relationships and the difficulties she had as a child on her lesbian mother, the gay community at large, and even marriage equality. As you might guess, she is against all of it.
This seems to be one of the anti-gay industry's new projects ... to find children from broken homes with opposite sex parents in which one of the parents is gay. And, the child either blames the gay parent for his/her pain or the anti-gay folks get them to blame their problems on homosexuality. According to Jeremy Hooper (author of Good As You blog), Robert Oscar Lopez is heading up this project. You can read his GLAAD profile here.
From Good As You:
Heather Barwick knows the pain of divorce. She writes about it on The Federalist and previously spoke about it in a Christian magazine.
Katy Faust felt pain from her biological parents' divorce. She's written about it many times.
Robert Oscar Lopez has turned his parents divorce and subsequent parental structure into a cottage industry of commentary and activism.
BA Newmark (who assumes the pseudonym of "Rivka Edelman") bemoans her parents divorce in the 1970s.
Dawn Stefanowicz describes a broken marriage that doesn't seem to have culminated in divorce, but one that did involve outside sexual partners for both parents, sexual abuse at the hand of her father, and a marriage that was doomed from the get-go.
They all have the right to express themselves. Divorce, remarriage, step parenting, infidelity, and particularly sexual abuse—it can all be difficult. And life altering. And worthy of adult reflection.
But unfortunately all five of these individuals, working together as a collective that Lopez has masterminded, have gone beyond pontificating on their own broken structures and have committed acts of intellectual malpractice. All five have taken their own personal stories, which are all defined by bad breaks and neglect and hardship, and misapplied them to same-sex parenting. While not a one of them can fairly say that their lives would be better off if their biological parent(s) divorced and entered into new opposite-sex unions rather than same-sex one, they all go ahead and demand that the homosexuality that entered their lives in carrying capacities is undeniably at root for much anguish—anguish that they must now banish.
More below the fold.
After reading and pondering the above, I think we need a positive example of someone raised by two great gay parents. How about Zack Wahls?
Gay people are not perfect. We are human and fallible just like heterosexuals (and everyone else). But, if you read any of the APA briefs in the marriage cases, you will see that this professional/expert organization insists that same-sex parents are just as capable and good as opposite sex parents. And, they have the studies to back it up.