Chris Benedict

Clarkston, MI

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Florida Ban on Gay Adoption Ruled Unconstitutional

M H, your assertion assumes that children are incapable of understanding and dealing with the issue. If you have children of your own, you must understand that this isn't true at all; children are amazingly insightful even at very young ages, and completely capable of accepting and successfully processing same-sex parenting situations.

I also would echo Shannon's sentiments regarding 'what is normal?' I am straight, married, have children, and consider myself successful in life...while I see myself as relatively harmless to society, most who know me would consider me far from 'normal'...and I consider that a compliment, especially if 'normal' is defined as those who think gays don't deserve the same rights as everyone else.

What I would think is vastly more confusing to children--especially teenagers--is when parents bring them up with ideals of freedom, individual rights, and the notion that anyone can accomplish anything in America, only to have them discover that a large segment of people believe in denying fundamental rights to an entire segment of the population, and that open bigotry towards those people is almost completely tolerated.

Lastly, if you do have childre M H, I would encourage you to picture them coming to you and sharing that THEY are gay--then tell me how you would explain to them that they do not deserve the same rights as the rest of us, and that they are an abomination in the eyes of God. If you can picture doing that, and are okay with it, I would suggest that perhaps it is YOUR definition of 'normal' that needs examination.