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In reply to the discussion: Wobegone Is Me [View all]Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)I grew up the child of a mixed-gender marriage that lasted until death parted them, and I could tell you about how good that is for children, and you could pay me whatever you think its worth.
Back in the day, that was the standard arrangement. Everyone had a yard, a garage, a female mom, a male dad, and a refrigerator with leftover boiled potatoes in plastic dishes with snap-on lids
And now gay marriage will produce a whole new string of hyphenated relatives. In addition to the ex-stepson and ex-in-laws and your wifes first husbands second wife, there now will be Bruce and Kevins in-laws and Bruces ex, Mark, and Marks current partner, and I suppose well get used to it.
The country has come to accept stereotypical gay mensardonic fellows with fussy hair who live in over-decorated apartments with a striped sofa and a small weird dog and who worship campy performers and go in for flamboyance now and then themselves. If they want to be accepted as couples and daddies, however, the flamboyance may have to be brought under control. Parents are supposed to stand in back and not wear chartreuse pants and black polka-dot shirts. Thats for the kids. Its their show."
http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/garrison_keillors_apology