This is part of what marriage equality is all about – building strong families.
Click here to read about Alec Mapa and his husband’s adoption. Or as Mapa put it on US talk show ‘The View,’ “We became foster adopt parents this year. My husband’s white, my son’s black, I’m Asian … we look like the last two minutes of It’s A Small World!”
As you might have guessed Alec Mapa is hilarious with a capital H on this video!
Christians against gay marriage
I was reminded of how excellent Andrew Sullivan’s take on marriage equality is today, from re-reading his book “Same Sex Marriage Pro & Con.” Here is this analysis of what opposing gay marriage, and by extension acceptance of gay men and lesbians, actually hurt the families it is supposed to protect:
“It is quite common that homosexual mothers and fathers who are encouraged into heterosexual marriages subsequently find the charade and dishonesty too great to bear: spouses are betrayed, children are abandoned, families are broken and lives are ruined… Continue reading →
Chinese couple who married unofficially 25 years ago, and now their adopted son is marrying the girl of his dreams.
Read (in English) and watch (in Mandarin) this extraordinary story here. This story was screened on an Oprah-style TV show in China.
… That’s according to according to Stephen Scott, Director of Research, at the UK’s National Academy for Parenting Practitioners.
The singer Belinda Carlisle is pushing her new autobiography with, amongst other tales, her strong belief in marriage equality.
She says she feels so strongly because her 18 year old son James Duke Mason (a Glee cast member) is gay and she wants him to have every chance to be happy.
Here’s a beautiful story about why marriage is about more than the couple themselves – including security for any kids you’re raising. Meanwhile Jonathan Rauch who wrote a great book on why marriage matters, explains how millions of children around the world would directly benefit from marriage equality: the kids being raised by gay parents.
If you want more information or to read about just how common it is for children to be raised by gay parents – read this fasicinating collection of stories about Gay Dads.
