for the same reasons that straight couples do!
Kevin McCullough’s “Why Would Gays Want Children?” from TownHall calls Mary Cheney and Heather Poe’s impending parenthood a “fake act” that is part of a “great deception” on behalf of “homosexual activists.” McCullough finds it “peculiar” that those who “shun” heterosexual sex can “deeply crave” children. Here is an absolutely stellar paragraph from his screed:
In normal relationships the privacy and intimacy of the act of procreation is a spiritual and beautiful thing. In the sexual acts of women who sleep together that adequacy will be something they always long for and never have the satisfaction of knowing, thus undermining the fidelity of what they believe their relationship to be.
There are so many mistaken presuppositions there that I hardly know where to begin. Straight people are “normal,” versus “woman who sleep together,” demonstrating the normative fallacy. Straight couples have “spiritual and beautiful” “privacy and intimacy” where lesbians only have “sexual acts,” and “believe their relationship to be”…what, exactly? One wonders which heterosexist prejudice remains unexpressed.
McCullough then wonders “whether sexual behavior should be considered moral that extends beyond moral boundaries,” and asks:
And since homosexuals insist upon desiring limitless sexual activity, not governed by provincial rules and traditions, why would they want children?Children are the undeniable product of the superiority of heterosexual engagement. And since homosexual behavior in large terms wishes to throw off the weight of conventional sexuality, I am curious as to why they would desire to reinforce the inferiority of their sexual behavior.
And no amount of hate-mail from small minded radical activists will stifle the curiosity from which I seek to learn.
If McCullough truly has an “ever growing [sic] desire to know the truth” and seeks to learn, perhaps he could set aside his superiority complex and ask a few lesbian and gay couples why they want children. He might then realize that their reasons are very much the same as those of straight couples. He might even come to the conclusion that his small-minded bigotry is impeding his ability to appreciate the common humanity of the many lesbian and gay parents that are helping to raise the next generation of Americans.