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March 10, 2005
Tales From Lecture
Quoth the good (Moral Reasoning) professor:
I have a gay friend who has had trouble keeping long-term relationships together, but he really wanted a child. He became friends with a lesbian couple who also wanted children, so they put their heads together....not just their heads, as it turned out (laughter), and they had a child together, legally the child of the lesbian couple. And he takes an intimate interest in this child's development. So this child really has three parents...
Hey, whatever works, right?
(The question under discussion is, what makes a good family? How can we resolve the incongruity between the authority inside the family and our democratic political beliefs? "This family is not a democracy; eat your brussels sprouts!" etc.)
Posted by David Richmond at March 10, 2005 11:20 AM EST
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