Thursday, August 11, 2005
Culture: The Looming War over Gay Adoption
Though I *never* chose to be a parent for the sake of a political or moral cause, I believe that gay parenting will ultimately be the phenomenon which shifts society's attitude about gay people from one of superiority to one of equality. After all, if gay parents can raise children that are as happy and healthy as the children raised by straight parents, then by what measure can someone call a gay person "degenerate" when comparted to a straight person?
Conservative politicans are well-aware that successful gay parents changes society's attitudes about gay people (for the better), and whipping the "gay boogeyman" provides a lot of political strength to drive fearful religious zealots to the polls. They haven't had a very good response (for them, politically-speaking) to the swelling numbers of gay parents since the Lawrence v. Texas U. S. Supreme Court decision.
Julian Sanchez of reason.com (my favorite online publication) has written a terrific article describing the looming war over gay adoption. It's going to get ugly, but I think that the Conservative politicans will lose. Too many straight people now know that gay people make fine parents, and they won't take kindly to seeing their friends and their friends' children suffer from stupid legislation.
Conservative politicans are well-aware that successful gay parents changes society's attitudes about gay people (for the better), and whipping the "gay boogeyman" provides a lot of political strength to drive fearful religious zealots to the polls. They haven't had a very good response (for them, politically-speaking) to the swelling numbers of gay parents since the Lawrence v. Texas U. S. Supreme Court decision.
Julian Sanchez of reason.com (my favorite online publication) has written a terrific article describing the looming war over gay adoption. It's going to get ugly, but I think that the Conservative politicans will lose. Too many straight people now know that gay people make fine parents, and they won't take kindly to seeing their friends and their friends' children suffer from stupid legislation.
