Gay Bashing by The Age Newspaper

Another typical "the gays are bad and shouldn't raise kids" homophobic article appeared in today's Age newspaper.

Here's a snippet of the hateful article, where gays are seen as selfish people who shouldn't raise kids because they turn kids gay while heterosexuals remain the only ones good at parenting:

Run to mummy, kid. Waddya mean, which one?

What a tangled web we weave when the clever human race begins to meddle with nature. In the Irish courts this month a homosexual man won an injunction to stop two lesbians moving to Australia.

That’s because the lesbians have a son and he provided the sperm. He’s the non-resident non-connubial dad. The wonders of test-tube baby-making.

The three gays were pals when the baby plan was hatched but the ladies have fallen out with the bloke and want to take the offspring away and live in the Land Down Under. He, the test-tube papa, doesn’t want to lose contact.

So-called ''critics'' have reportedly scoffed at Ireland’s ''outdated'' 1937 constitution, which struggles to deal with this particular scenario – the document (how quaint!) still defines parents as ''a married man and woman''.  Yes, I know, it’s an old-fashioned concept but until clever humans become even cleverer, it still DOES require the ingredients of both genders to create life.
But what a right old mess for the poor kid to comprehend. He's three years old now but what will he make of this trio of wrangling  gay ''parents'' as the years pass. Hard enough for children of today to sort out their lives without that sort of tangled mix of sexuality among their nurturers, I would have thought.

According to the judge, Supreme Court Justice Susan Denham, the two lesbians provided ''a loving stable home'' for the lad but Irish law identified the homosexual sperm donor as ''the father'' so he is staking his claim. How strange life has become when a man and woman who have no sexual contact or attraction -- and now hate each other -- can produce a child.

And you wonder what impact gay parenting will have on the lad. The usual gay-rights line is that children of homosexual households have no more or less inclination to live homosexual lifestyles themselves but that may not necessarily be the case. A Longitudinal Study of Lesbian Families’ in 1999  by Susan Golombok and Fiona Tasker found that 15 per cent of 39 children raised in 27 lesbian families had gone on to have a gay relationship. That compares with none of the kids from a comparative  group of heterosexual families.  And that also compares with about two or three percent of the general community who identify as exclusively homosexual. It doesn’t do much for the old gay-rights argument that homosexuals are born, not made, does it?

Back in the 1970s the law courts would not award custody to mothers who had turned lesbian and left a heterosexual marriage. The view was that lesbian motherhood was not a healthy nurturing environment but that view seems to have changed in the law's eyes.

However, let's face it,  there are plenty of dysfunctional hetero parents raising kids. So many that  I've long held the view that humans should need a licence to breed.

So is a child going to be any worse off with a mother, a ''co-mother'' and a gay ''dad''? I don’t know. You tell me.

Comments? I know I'll be boycotting the Age from now on.