How Prop 8 Hurts Families
Filed by: Dana Rudolph
January 15, 2009 10:00 AM
http://www.bilerico.com/2009/01/how_prop_8_hurts_families.php "My six-year old, the day after we lost Prop 8, asked me, with tears running down his face, if we were still a family." —Contra Costa County
Another Contra Costa parent explained, "My eight year old daughter heard many of those radio and TV ads, I can tell she is still reeling inside. We talk about it as she brings it up, but she just ran smack into discrimination, aimed at her on TV. That is a lot for me, it is way more than she needed to see." Another parent shared, "My 7 year old son asked, 'If the Yes people win, will you and Mama have to break up?' Prior to this campaign, my children had no real understanding that we live in a culture that condemns our family, as our immediate community and their schools are supportive. It's not gay parents that hurt our kids, it is homophobia."
I've written before about how Prop 8 has caused children to question whether their families will be torn apart, their parents forced to separate. That might be viewed as the histrionics of one or two people quoted in the papers—except now we have proof it's not.
