Please consider the children

[kayell]

For Children of Gays, Marriage Brings Joy
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/19/national/19GAYS.html?ex=1080363600&en=e9b8ebb6776507ca&ei=5040&partner=MOREOVER

AN FRANCISCO, March 18 — On a recent rainy Sunday morning, Gabriel Damast had planned to laze around the house, watching cartoons and eating French toast. Instead, he snapped his favorite chain-mail key chain to his belt loop, grabbed his MP3 player and headed to City Hall to watch his two moms, Fredda Damast and Birch Early, marry.

"It was so cool," said Gabriel, 13, who served as the ringbearer, after standing in line overnight with his parents. "I always accepted that `Yeah, they're my moms,' but they were actually getting married. I felt thick inside with happiness. Just thick."

The explosion of same-sex wedding ceremonies here and around the country has catalyzed a national debate over gay marriage. As the legal and rhetorical battles rage in county clerks' offices, on the presidential campaign trail and in the courts, one group is watching with more than casual interest: the children of same-sex couples.

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[TlalocW]

1. And here you see the insidious relationship

Between homosexuals/lesbians and the French. The kid was eating FRENCH TOAST! NOT FREEDOM TOAST! FRENCH!

The players in the conspiracy against America are slowly but surely falling into place.

TlalocW

[Cursive_Knives512]

2. lol!!!!!!!!!!!! nt

[kayell]

3. Snarf! It is a serious post though,

It is a serious post though, with what to me is a serious question.

A lot of people worry about ill effects on children of the acceptance of gay marriage. What about the ill effects on children of gay parents who can not marry, or whose marriages are not recognized in this country? And are the ultimate effects of banning gay marriage going to do more harm to all children in the long run?

[gator_in_Ontario]

4. Not to mention the effect on gay children themselves..

I could have avoided alot of mistakes and heartache if it has just been an OPTION to be gay growing up.

[kayell]

6. Me too Gator, me too

I did a remarkably good acting job for a while of forcing myself into a heterosexual role, even though I knew as soon as I hit adolescence who I was really attracted to. And I didn't really fit in even earlier, although I didn't have an inkling why.

Lots of really bad repercussions from trying to be heterosexual when you aren't.

[seabeyond]

5. this wasnt isnt hard for me

i know when we stepped into the marriages thru out this nation and how it was done, very good stuff. i saw it as huge growth. until we can become one, battle continues. the only way to become on, is thru love.

i saw polls that stated 80% said gay marriages should be allowed. cannot see how it can be any other way. that was at the beginning before people were conditioned how to post thru party, so was more the feel of individual thought. i will take that one. i saw my one movement thru this

a 42 year old woman, mother listening to so many sides. all the children every where, cause i listen to a 36 year old male, hiv he and i walked a lot of life the same, same areas, i tell him he is the gay me, and another person i have met is the single me.

i married into a texas family catholics, they are a mess, found black blood a couple years ago, only one generation removed, they are liousanna.....now texan oil. found out as i got married, two youngest brothers are gay. a decade ago. not that we say it out loud. i sit with mouth open with this family

i often tell my children, and so much more of late, gosh, all you teach us adults. it is best the best for me to look at the children, and then clearly and in love it is the best for all. the woman talks growing up not knowing gay and how hard it was

my oldest son, the most sensitive, so smart, articulate, (so gay, lol lol) he is simply lite. doesnt matter if he is or isnt, many are going to think or call him. but geez beauty he is..........

be it the child with gay parents or the gay child, the 40 year old child that still holds pain

or the young girl that was molested by father or son that had a mother that didnt bond.

those are all sadness within, and be it my 6 year old in pain or yours or mine, i know what to do with that. i hold it close and love it and caress.........

it is all of ours to do, and the simple is in love

and it has to go all ways this love, and the man holding the picture yelling about gay marrigae, and saying it is a demon in people? i have to give that man love too cause oh the sadness of the little child that he is. ok ok ok that one certainly is like way more challenging, i know hear and see

anyway all of you, thank you for sharing here. it was a good place for me to sit for a while. brought peace, and that is a good and productive thing.

and those that will enivitably say you make no sense cant you be more clear or spelling bad. i say. i could but i dont want to. i want to express exactly this way, and hopefully there will be one, maybe, lol that hears what i am saying.