Don't 'Protect' Me; Give Me Your Respect

I travel frequently for my job, so I've been in this situation before. In the best cases, answering this question opens the door to a discussion, regardless of whether the person supports the idea of gay parents raising children.

But occasionally, the passenger next to me responds with silence. That's what happened this time. He looked at me, blinked and then sat back in his seat, staring straight ahead. Finally he grabbed the magazine in the seat pocket in front of him and opened it. His body language, roughly translated, meant, "I did not buy a perfectly good seat on this airplane so that I could sit next to some lesbian."

[Anthony]

I've been in that situation :(

[eJohn]

Great article! It's great that we have so many heterosexual supporters.

I still hear people waxing poetic (i.e. jerking themselves off) about the horrors of the "poor, neglected and abused children that are forced to be raised by gay people". Those are usually the same people that gleefully voted to take those childrens' health care away because their parents aren't legally married.

How did we get to be so surrounded by fear and ignorance?