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According to new census figures, the number of people reporting that they
are living with a same-sex partner has risen 52 percent in the last decade.
That’s almost 902,000 people who are living all across the United States.
Even here in my own incredibly conservative state of South Carolina, the
number of same-sex couples increased and a quarter of them are raising
children.
It’s those kinds of facts that have right-wing media like the Christian
Post scratching their heads, with headlines like this that rival anything
over at The Onion:
“Gay Couples Spread in U.S., Behave Like Straight Couples”
Um, yeah, well, duh. What exactly are gay couples supposed to act like? Wild
hyenas? The story that follows that headline would be just as funny if it
didn’t signal the death knell for the religious right’s jihad against gays
and lesbians.
The article marvels that:
According to the research, many same-sex couples are doing something
straight couples have been doing for generations: getting older, having kids
, and moving to the suburbs...
These trends, both the spread of gay people living openly, and of gay
populations mirroring trends in the straight population, are playing out
nationwide.
That makes gays and lesbians seem somehow, oddly, oh, I don’t know, human.
We age, we have kids, we move to the suburbs! Who knew?
And this is where it gets sticky for anti-gay religious leaders. As this
article points out, they have no interest in letting the facts get in the
way of a good lie and have vowed to continue their efforts to keep
discrimination against gay people in place.
Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan, addressed the same-sex marriage issue
during an interview on the CBS program 60 Minutes, urging policymakers not
to tamper with the definition of what he termed “authentic marriage.”
“I love my mom, but I don’t have the right to marry her,” said the
archbishop, whose national public profile as a spokesman for church values
rose last year, when he was elected president of the United States
Conference of Catholic Bishops.
Dolan could have a point if those census figures, or any other research,
showed that gay people were even slightly interested in marrying their
parents. Heck, most gay people would just love to have a relationship with
their parents, but many of them remain estranged because of anti-gay
crusaders like Dolan who have spread the lie that being gay is somehow akin
to wanting to marry a parent, a dog, or a piece of furniture.
But, as more and more lesbians and gay men raising children move into the
neighborhoods of suburbia, the more “normal” gay and lesbian relationships
will be. The census shows this is already happening and that more and more
gay and lesbian people are feeling comfortable enough to come out on a
government form and be counted.
What it proves is that more and more people are catching on to the lies
being told by the religious right. Gay and lesbian people don’t want to “
redefine” marriage—they want the same kind of marriage everyone else has,
complete with kids, a dog, and a nice neighborhood. Weird, right? | D**S
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