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The Dark Ages are over?

Ty_N_Al — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 11:19:09 -0700

Are we in the Age of Enlightenment?

I can't wait for that blog entry.

I have heard so many crazy conversations surrounding same-sex parenting here in Georgia. Maybe Georgia is still trapped in the Dark Ages.

"I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood. That the speaking profits me, beyond any other effect." - Audre Lorde

Way Out Parenting: The Dark Ages

Way Out Parent — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 11:11:48 -0700

Do you ever wonder what it must have been like to become a gay parent twenty years ago? Sometimes I stop to consider…and I’m glad we’re not there anymore.

Back in the Dark Ages of Gay Parenting, any gay person who aspired to start a family faced one inquisitorial question, and it reverberated from all fronts: “What in God’s name gives you the audacity to think that you could possibly be parenting material?”