For those who missed it due to all the Sunday Superbowl fooforah and the fact that you have lives, I’ll repeat this blog entry…
The well-known (and oft quoted here and elsewhere) National Post columnist has agreed to be a part of our team here at ProudToBeCanadian.ca.
Her columns will be posted in the Columnists section with our other columnists’ posts.
Barbara Kay is a great writer and her perspective will be a huge addition to our site. Her range of topics is quite vast and while it’s often about politics, she also writes “light” pieces and sometimes literary review types of articles.
I’m really glad to have her on board and I’ve already posted a few of her latest columns plus one from last year which I thought was germane to the political discussions today in Canada called “So I’m a ‘homophobe’, am I?”.
Her latest column is called “It’s time to think about the children”.
Here’s a snippet:
Not long ago I was seated at dinner beside an Ontario family law judge. I asked what his position was on adoption equity for gays. Would he, once gay marriage was entrenched, and in keeping with our government’s current equity legislation in the workplace, feel obliged to fast-track gays’ access to available children to make up for “past injustices” and their “disability” on the procreative front? And what about a single mother willing to give up her child for adoption, provided the baby went to a heterosexual couple? Whose rights would be privileged, hers or those of gay adoptive applicants?
The judge paused, then said, “I haven’t ever really thought about it.” Eventually the judge opined that a gay married couple’s rights should trump a biological mother’s right to have her child raised in a normative family. And on further reflection, he decided, he would also be partial to equity adoption policies for gays.
I know why the judge was caught off guard. Up until now, the gay marriage debate has focused on the rights of adults. The gay marriage bill arose from the conviction amongst our political and ideological elites that the raison d’etre for marriage was romantic attachment, not procreation. Once the bill passes, the focus will shift from “what is marriage?” to “what is family?” […]
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