2009-06-29 Children of gay couples speak out

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Date:	2009-06-29
Link:	http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/wayoflife/06/28/gayby/index.html
Author:	John Blake (writingscat)
Source:	CNN (articlescat)
Topics:	gay marriage/offspring gay marriage family family values
Categories:	gay marriage/offspring gay marriage family family values

'Gayby boom': Children of gay couples speak out

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Jesse Levey is a Republican activist who says he believes in family values, small government and his lesbian mothers' right to marry.

Levey is part of the "gayby boom" generation. The 29-year-old management consultant is the son of a lesbian couple who chose to have a child through artificial insemination. He's their only child.

Critics of same-sex marriage say people such as Levey will grow up shunned and sexually confused. Yet he says he's a "well-adjusted heterosexual" whose upbringing proves that love, not gender, makes a family.

"You can imagine what my parents thought when I was 13 and listening to Rush Limbaugh everyday," Levey says. "But my family had strong family values. I was raised in a loving, caring household that let me be a free thinker."

Comments:

• What baffles me is that he thinks Republicanism is compatible with (real) family values or free-thinking, or that it is the party of small government. W.

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“Jesse Levey is a Republican activist who says he believes in family values, small government and his lesbian mothers' right to marry.”