Gay Parenting

[Beirut]

For my part at least, I think it's quite understandable that you feel a mother and father is better, and I'm perfectly willing to accept that as a legitimate opinion, even if it's not one I find convincing. The thing that bothers me is that you seem unwilling to extend the same courtesy to those of us who disagree with you. You have expressed shock and disbelief that anyone could have a reasonable opinion other than your own, and questioned the rationality, motives, and life experiences of those of us who do. It's disrespectful, and not something I'd have expected from you.

If there is a lack of courtesy in this thread, I assure you it is going in both directions.

I'm also concerned that you're willing to blatantly disregard the scientific method and community in its entirety, treating something that has made such huge contributions to our modern standard of living as so much 'pixie dust.'

I do not disregard science at all. But neither do I suffer from "white coat syndrome", as one of my brothers calls it, where a person accepts anything said by a doctor or person with a title after their name simply because that person is a doctor or has a title after their name.

There is good science and bad science, and sometimes a person just to rely on common sense to figure it out for himself. And though common sense seems to have a bad reputation around here, I think that many of its detractors will find occasions in life - lots and lots of them - where jumping up and down and waiving a science report around isn't going to do squat for them, while on the other hand just a thimble full of common sense will pull their keester right out of the fire.

You're not the only person in this world, Beirut.

Though since my dog died, I do sometimes feel that way.