Two Mommies Is One Too Many - James Dobson in Time [View All]

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http://www.time.com/time/magazine/printout/0,8816,1568485,00.html

Mary Cheney is starting a family. Let's hope she doesn't start a trend
By JAMES C. DOBSON

A number of social conservatives, myself included, have recently been asked to respond to the news that Mary Cheney, the Vice President's daughter, is pregnant with a child she intends to raise with her lesbian partner. Implicit in this issue is an effort to get us to criticize the Bush Administration or the Cheney family. But the concern here has nothing to do with politics. It is about what kind of family environment is best for the health and development of children, and, by extension, the nation at large.

With all due respect to Cheney and her partner, Heather Poe, the majority of more than 30 years of social-science evidence indicates that children do best on every measure of well-being when raised by their married mother and father. That is not to say Cheney and Poe will not love their child. But love alone is not enough to guarantee healthy growth and development. The two most loving women in the world cannot provide a daddy for a little boy--any more than the two most loving men can be complete role models for a little girl.

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But set aside the scientific findings for a minute. Isn't there something in our hearts that tells us, intuitively, that children need a mother and a father? Admittedly, that ideal is not always possible. Divorce, death, abandonment and unwed pregnancy have resulted in an ever growing number of single-parent families in this culture. We admire the millions of men and women who have risen to the challenge of parenting alone and are meeting their difficult responsibilities with courage and determination. Still, most of them, if asked, would say that raising children is a two-person job best accomplished by a mother and father.

In raising these issues, Focus on the Family does not desire to harm or insult women such as Cheney and Poe. Rather, our conviction is that birth and adoption are the purview of married heterosexual couples. Traditional marriage is God's design for the family and is rooted in biblical truth. When that divine plan is implemented, children have the best opportunity to thrive. That's why public policy as it relates to families must be based not solely on the desires of adults but rather on the needs of children and what is best for society at large.

How nicely phrased when it's the VP's daughter and not one of us regular old queers. No, you wouldn't want to insult them, just the rest of us.

And if this is what God really intended for all kiddies to have one man, one woman - then why on Earth would he let Mary get pregnant? I mean, there's tons of families who try to have kids and don't conceive. This was no accidental coupling in the backseat of the car - they had to work to make this happen through the miracle of modern medicine. If God didn't bless Mary with this child Dr D, why didn't he just stick his mysterious finger in between that sperm and that egg.

You still don't get it do you? Why was Foley outed right before the election? Why was Haggard outed right before the election? NJ approves marriage or civil unions or something? The Democrats? Hardly, very few of them stand up for us as it is.

Nope, this is God's Will big Daddy D. He's trying to give you a message to change your wicked ways and quit misquoting Him in ways that profit you. See, there's no mysterious thing going on here. He wants you to change your message about the people He made this way - He's making you look like a fool at every turn - But relax, it could be worse. Ask Jonah or Lot's wife.