A Real-Life Heather on Her Two Mommies

by Mar 20, 2015Culture, Theology

heather has two mommiesAn important insight from a real-life Heather with two mommies, who writes with empathy and respect for her mother, but who grew up needing a dad:

Gay marriage doesn’t just redefine marriage, but also parenting. It promotes and normalizes a family structure that necessarily denies us something precious and foundational. It denies us something we need and long for, while at the same time tells us that we don’t need what we naturally crave. That we will be okay. But we’re not. We’re hurting.

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