CULTURE/SOCIETY and POLITICS: Homophobia and Parenthood

I read this at Pack of 2's website. And they asked that if you disagree with homophobia, to please reprint it. So that's what I'm doing.

But I must say something in full disclosure here - as well as to be completely honest. I do have some qualms about homosexual - as well as single parents - creating babies. It seems to be that a child does best if one has a mother and a father. One parent to show how that sex acts and behaves and the other to teach the child how to interact with the opposite sex.

I will admit that I'm not totally set in my ways, because science seems to be coming up with some evidence that suggest this may not be true. But what we have so far seems to lean that way in my view.

I will admit I have NO qualms whatsoever with gay couples and singles adopting children. I feel it is better for children to grow in a home where they are loved and are considered someone's child than in a foster home or an adoption center.

So with that out of the way, I reprint the blog against homophobia. - OlderMusicGeek-

homophobia SUX!

I am the girl kicked out of her home because I confided in my mother that I am a lesbian.

I am the prostitute working the streets because nobody will hire a transsexual woman.

I am the sister who holds her gay brother tight through the painful, tear-filled nights.

We are the parents who buried our daughter long before her time.

I am the man who died alone in the hospital because they would not let my partner of twenty-seven years into the room.

I am the foster child who wakes up with nightmares of being taken away from the two fathers who are the only loving family I have ever had. I wish they could adopt me.

I am one of the lucky ones, I guess. I survived the attack that left me in a coma for three weeks, and in another year I will probably be able to walk again.

I am not one of the lucky ones. I killed myself just weeks before graduating high school. It was simply too much to bear.

We are the couple who had the realtor hang up on us when she found out we wanted to rent a one-bedroom for two men.

I am the person who never knows which bathroom I should use if I want to avoid getting the management called on me.

I am the mother who is not allowed to even visit the children I bore, nursed, and raised. The court says I am an unfit mother because I now live with another woman.

I am the domestic-violence survivor who found the support system grow suddenly cold and distant when they found out my abusive partner is also a woman.

I am the domestic-violence survivor who has no support system to turn to because I am male.

I am the father who has never hugged his son because I grew up afraid to show affection to other men.

I am the home-economics teacher who always wanted to teach gym until someone told me that only lesbians do that.

I am the man who died when the paramedics stopped treating me as soon as they realized I was transsexual.

I am the person who feels guilty because I think I could be a much better person if I didn’t have to always deal with society hating me.

I am the man who stopped attending church, not because I don't believe, but because they closed their doors to my kind.

I am the person who has to hide what this world needs most, love.

Repost this in your journal or on another board if you believe homophobia is wrong!!!!