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May 3, 2006, #19

Should America Celebrate "Gay Families"?

Has anyone noticed that in a mere hop, skip, and jump our mainstream culture has gone from celebrating the individual homosexual to celebrating the homosexual couple to celebrating the homosexual-parented family?

Consider this year’s annual Easter egg roll on the White House lawn for little children and their parents. While thousands put the event on their calendars as an opportunity for some wholesome, innocent family fun, the gay community showed up not only pushing strollers and leading toddlers by the hand, but wearing the gay rights rainbow symbol in the form of conspicuous, brightly colored leis. The national news media was there and covered it as a political protest, representing the homosexual parents in a favorable light.

As Bill O’Reilly asked on his TV show the next day, “ Why do we have to get into all that at an Easter egg roll? How would you answer a question from a six-year-old who said, ‘Mommy, who are these people and where is their daddy?’ [or ‘Daddy, ] where’s the Mommy? Why do they have two daddies?’ Do we really want a six-year-old to get into a homosexual discussion at an Easter egg roll?” O’Reilly is rightly concerned but perhaps naive. Exposing children, theirs and anybody’s else’s, to homosexuality is precisely what radical sexual activists mean to do. (For instance, the public needs to know that sexual activists are going to great lengths to introduce homosexuality to elementary school children through public schools. 1) As O’Reilly’s guest, Willy Brown, former San Francisco mayor, said, “It’s good to start those kids really early understanding that the so-called differences [between homosexual and heterosexual families] do not exist.” As you mull that one over, I’ll go on.

Gay families are making publicized efforts to come across as the perfect, wholesome, just-like-you family. But they are none of those things. Homosexual couples are known to engage in unnatural, abnormal, and harmful sex acts. Some gay couples evidently crave a family lifestyle. But they can not get it by natural means. (Please note that adoptive opposite-sex married couples, although they did not produce their child, can exemplify the healthy norm while gay parents cannot.) Gay parents want attention, legitimization, and celebration. But they must not get it. Renowned psychologist A. Dean Byrd put it this way: “The civil rights of homosexual couples, with an activist backdrop of politically correct words like tolerance, diversity and non-discrimination, seem to dismiss what is in the best interest of the child.” 2

Among other things, gay parents, whether male or female homosexuals, are purposely depriving children of either a mother or a father and all that comes with a pair of heterogeneous parents. They are doing this when, according to Byrd, “[t]here is no fact that has been established by social science literature more convincingly than the following: all variables considered, children are best served when reared in a home with a married mother and father.” 3 Although they will argue the point, gay parents, who, as I’ve said, must adopt, are in reality purposely creating a family-like situation which research has shown is harmful to children. For one example, as quoted in Byrd’s paper, “Homosexuals .. . model a poor view of marriage to children. [Children are] taught by example and belief that marital relationships are transitory and mostly sexual in nature, [and that s]exual relationships are primarily for pleasure rather than procreation.” 4 Surely, for their own sake and the sake of society, we do not want children growing up with these skewed ideas. Perhaps the worst news in all of this is that we seem to have sunk to what C. S. Lewis described as a country where something has gone terribly wrong with its appetite for sex, an appetite “in ludicrous and preposterous excess of its function.” 5

Of great concern is that American culture is embracing homosexuality and everything that comes with it, including gay-parented families. This is significant because, as Robert Bork noted, “In order to prefer certain groups it is necessary to harm others.” 6 If we support the gay family in public policies, the traditional family will be harmed to some degree. The opposite is also true. If we support the traditional family in public policies, the gay family will be harmed to some degree. The important question is not, as Willy Brown seemed to indicate, “Can’t we accept both?” It is, “Which must America prefer?”

Where today’s children are concerned, renewed support of the ideal traditional family and its enduring values should be a priority in American media, academia, law, and government. I think even gay parents would have to admit that if a civilization fails to celebrate (or prefer) the natural family, it opens itself up to every kind of societal ill, including extinction.

Easter is cause for celebration; homosexual-parented families are not.

-Stephen & Janice Graham

1. A few examples of homosexual-affirming literature being used in America’s elementary schools include the video “It’s Elementary,” and picture books Heather Has Two Mommies, Daddy’s Roommate, and It’s Perfectly Normal.
2. “Gender Complementarity and Child-Rearing: Where Tradition and Science Agree,” A. Dean Byrd, 2004.
3. Ibid.
4. Ibid, quoting B. Hayton.
5. C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity, 1952.
6. Robert Bork, Slouching Towards Gomorrah, 1996.

 



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