A treasured friend in California, K, emailed me just now to share with me the horrible effects of children knowing about gay and lesbian couples.
Her daughter, A, turned 4 this week. A is whip-smart (like her mama) and an absolute doll imbued with all the attitude and aptitude her genetics could possibly have provided.
A’s mama wrote me:
"This morning A asked me, ‘Why do you make me a good breakfast every morning?’
I said, ‘So you grow up to be big and strong and smart.’
She said ‘And then I'll know everything!’
I said, ‘No one knows everything. I don't know everything, even though I'm big and strong and smart. But grownups know more than kids. That's why kids need a mommy and a daddy - to help them out with things they don't know.’
Without skipping a beat, she said ‘Or two mommies, or two daddies!’ "
It would appear that A already is horribly scarred, spiritually disfigured, even, at four years of age, by the knowledge that same-sex couples raise children in loving families. She is obviously painfully unclear as to which sex is which, and has no idea what real families are (even though she lives in a traditional nuclear-style family). The arguments of the h8ers, now echoed in Maine, must all be true.
Or not, as shown in an adorable, intelligent Californian four-year-old who understands more about loving families than millions who voted against my marriage last year.
"Made my day," K wrote me.
Mine, too. Thanks, K, for giving me hope that by the time A comes of age, everyone will be able to marry anyone she loves. Even people like her old Uncle Elsie.