Gay marriage critic and child of gay parenting misguided

With arguments before the Supreme Court on gay marriage a week away, Canadian Dawn Stefanowiz was given nearly of full page of Tribune ink and pixels to rail against the US legalizing gay marriage, as was done in Canada in 2005. Stefanowicz spent her first 30 years under the spell of her gay father and his succession of male partners. Her beef against daddy? "I did not see my father or his partners valuing, loving and affirming women. My father's preference for one gender (male) created an inner sense of inequality for me." Stefanowicz then extrapolates from this unfortunate experience, which untold millions have experienced at the hands of a heterosexual parent, to conclude her poor self esteem was the result of same sex parenting. We could surmise that if her father was a thief instead of a successful executive recruiter, she might conclude gay parenting is associated with thievery.

Stefanowicz's other argument against gay marriage is societal. She claims Canadians have lost their personal freedoms because of government imposed restrictions against expressing any belief same sex marriage is wrong. Her solution to these restrictions, whether real or imagined, is not to lobby for change in governmental policies; it's downright discriminatory and draconian: "Marriage must remain between a man and a woman — to the exclusion of all others." That's like saying we shouldn't have given the vote to women in 1920 or to blacks in 1965 because of the unfair societal pressure on those expressing their belief neither of these enhancements to human freedom was necessary.

Regarding Ms. Stefanowicz's bizarre lobbying for continued discrimination against LGBT folks enjoying the same humanity she does, Billy Shakespeare said it best: "The woman doth protest too much, me thinks."