This is typical behavior from the National Organization for Marriage, but should be pointed out nonetheless. As Joe points out, whoever’s manning NOM’s blog these days posted this piece a little earlier today:
It’s telling that an organization which claims to support children and families is personally attacking a new family with two loving, supportive parents with the means to give that child every opportunity in life. Meanwhile, there are still millions of kids around the world who lack basic things like food and shelter. But NOM’s concerned about scoring political points against Jared Polis.
They’re just such gross people.
Strident anti-gay activists at NOM continue to defame and revile loving gay families in America in order to rake in $$$. Is this what Christ had in mind when He commanded us to love others and treat them as we would want to be treated? I think even a child can see it is not.
Of course the child has a mother, unless it’s from the Borg Collective, she’s just not in the child’s life; just like lots of other kids who don’t have a mother for whatever reason. If properly raised by 1 or 2 adults of whatever gender, they will turn out just fine, if not superior. Research has shown that the children of 2 lesbians usually score *higher* in social and emotional health than their heterosexually raised counterparts. Maybe NOM would like kids to have TWO mothers instead of just one?!
Why isn’t NOM attacking single fathers whose wife/girlfriend is deceased, or incarcerated, or dysfunctional because of drug abuse (or dysfunctional for other reasons), or etc? There are no mothers in these kids’ lives, but I suspect that there are still women involved in those lives…just like I’ll bet Jared and his husband will – and do – have women involved in their lives and in their kid’s.
I know the answer…it’s because Jared is one of “TEH GAYZ”. :-)
PhilipJ has it right.
NOM seem to be saying that unless it’s a male/female combination united in holy matrimony then no child should be brought up in it.
This automatically rules out all kinds of relationships where two members of the same gender bring up a child.
Suppose a man has a baby and his wife dies or runs away, and he and his widowed father help bring it up. The father doesn’t feel like getting married because he is still in love with his dead/disappeared wife wife, same with the granddad.
On a man and his unmarried brother?
Or a man deserts his wife and she and her sister help bring the child up. Both women have been hurt by men so would rather stay dedicating their life to the child?
Or a single woman and her widowed mother?
NOM can’t seem to appreciate that as long as the child is loved and cared for it doesn’t matter if a giraffe and a kangaroo do the parenting, and marriage doesn’t enter into it.
They do know that human beings require a male and female to exist? Just because the mother isn’t in the child’s life doesn’t mean he has any less chance at being successful in life. I was raised by my mom exclusively since I was eight, and I’m fine.
Dear NOM, families aren’t something you can just apply general parameters to. Each family is unique and there’s no set formula that creates a good person.