This is one of the most ridiculous things I have ever read and it makes me very angry.
http://lfpress.ca/newsstand/News/Col...62834-sun.html
This kind of crap gets me seriously riled. The terrible experience the child had growing up had nothing whatsoever to do with having a gay dad, it had everything to do with having a neglectful, selfish, unavailable dad and from the sounds of it a mother who didn't do anything to help protect her. The fact that this columnist turned it into a "gay thing"...holy crap.
ETA, ok, I'm going to submit a retort to "Letters to the editor". Here's what I have so far. Gosh, I'm steamed.
In response to the opinion piece by Rory Leishman on December 20, 2007, regarding the book "Out From Under: The Impact of Homosexual Parenting":
Mr. Leishman's editorial is laden with uninformed statements as well as an obvious heterosexist bias.
A person's sexual orientation is not the sum total of what makes him or her a "good" parent. Rather, far more important are a parent's availability and attentiveness to the child, and their fostering of a loving, stable and safe environment.
The author blithely dismisses the wealth of scientific articles that support the argument that children of homosexual parents are equally, if not more, well-adjusted as children raised by heterosexual parents. Instead, he prefers to point out a single dubious reference that discusses only the number of sexual partners of its study subjects. This study did not examine any relationship between promiscuity with successful parenting or childhood welfare. Nor does the study specify whether the promiscuous behaviour is taking place prior to or after individuals become parents (if at all).
Mr. Leishman’s assertions that children raised by homosexuals are doomed to be victimized by their unavailable, selfish and promiscuous parents are therefore simply based on his own negative perceptions of homosexuals. He also fails to recognize the fact that thousands of children have already been raised successfully, and with much love, by gay or lesbian parents.
I for one have been in a faithfully monogamous lesbian relationship for over five years. We are planning to start a family. The kinds of hateful views portrayed in Mr. Leishman’s editorial will be more damaging to our future children than the mere fact of my sexual orientation will ever be.
I'm not finished with it, but it's a start.
http://lfpress.ca/newsstand/News/Col...62834-sun.html
This kind of crap gets me seriously riled. The terrible experience the child had growing up had nothing whatsoever to do with having a gay dad, it had everything to do with having a neglectful, selfish, unavailable dad and from the sounds of it a mother who didn't do anything to help protect her. The fact that this columnist turned it into a "gay thing"...holy crap.
ETA, ok, I'm going to submit a retort to "Letters to the editor". Here's what I have so far. Gosh, I'm steamed.
In response to the opinion piece by Rory Leishman on December 20, 2007, regarding the book "Out From Under: The Impact of Homosexual Parenting":
Mr. Leishman's editorial is laden with uninformed statements as well as an obvious heterosexist bias.
A person's sexual orientation is not the sum total of what makes him or her a "good" parent. Rather, far more important are a parent's availability and attentiveness to the child, and their fostering of a loving, stable and safe environment.
The author blithely dismisses the wealth of scientific articles that support the argument that children of homosexual parents are equally, if not more, well-adjusted as children raised by heterosexual parents. Instead, he prefers to point out a single dubious reference that discusses only the number of sexual partners of its study subjects. This study did not examine any relationship between promiscuity with successful parenting or childhood welfare. Nor does the study specify whether the promiscuous behaviour is taking place prior to or after individuals become parents (if at all).
Mr. Leishman’s assertions that children raised by homosexuals are doomed to be victimized by their unavailable, selfish and promiscuous parents are therefore simply based on his own negative perceptions of homosexuals. He also fails to recognize the fact that thousands of children have already been raised successfully, and with much love, by gay or lesbian parents.
I for one have been in a faithfully monogamous lesbian relationship for over five years. We are planning to start a family. The kinds of hateful views portrayed in Mr. Leishman’s editorial will be more damaging to our future children than the mere fact of my sexual orientation will ever be.
I'm not finished with it, but it's a start.
: Well.... I'm in a monogamous heterosexual relationship but I'm bi. My sexual orientation has NO AFFECT on my parenting whatsoever. Hell, my parents are straight and were bad (not the worst but not good) parents...
