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This is a few years old, but I think it reflects the same doe-eyed innocence expressed to the LGBT community by the Mormon Church after they bought Prop 8 – that whole “I don’t hate you and I don’t understand why you’re mad at me; it’s just a difference of opinion, not a personal attack. Can’t we just agree to disagree and hug now?” sentiment. But it is personal. When it comes to people’s families, there simply is no separating the political from the personal. Your political opinion about the “idea” of my family is a personal moral judgment on my family.

That is the one point that the two men failed to make, and the point I think the woman also failed to comprehend: there is no such thing as the “global idea” of LGBT adoption. There are only families – parents and children.

When she casts a vote against the “global idea” of LGBT adoption, what she’s saying is, “Dear couple who just opened their home to me for a month: I understand that you are great parents, that your children are happy, and that you’re just trying to live your life and do what’s best for your family, but I would prefer that the state remove these children from your home, even if the alternative is to place them in group homes with bars on the windows until they age out of the system and are left to fend for themselves, because that is preferable to where they are now. I don’t base this on anything I’ve seen in front of me, or anything that’s based in actual interaction with families or people. It’s just a gut feeling that tells me I’m right.” Or in other words, “I respect you, but please sit back while I tear your family apart.” There is no “global idea.” There are only families.

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