From the “Washington Blade”:

Typically, common sense tells us just the opposite of what many, in the name of religion and family values, would have us believe.

Most disturbing, and tragically ironic, is the fact that the homophobic passion to “protect children” from gay teachers, gay relatives and gay parents ends up in fact creating vast harm to untold numbers of youngsters.

For example, how are the millions (and counting) of children of same-sex parents protected when they hear politicians and religious leaders denounce their parents as deviants out to corrupt them? Or when the Vatican, seat of perhaps the most powerful church in the world, proclaims that their parents are “doing violence” to them? When they read that they are destined to become social and psychological misfits? When they lack adequate health care because they are not covered by the insurance policy of a parent’s life partner? When they face poverty because a parent is ineligible for the survivor benefits of his or her partner? When they might be denied lifesaving treatment because a hospital emergency room refuses to recognize the authority of a partner?

So you’ll excuse my skepticism of those who so loudly claim the mantle of family values in the name of God and the Bible.
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