A post from a friends blog:
I’m not sure what my friends
Mike and Aaron do on this special day. My two gay friends, parents of
Zach, are hopefully celebrating. I find it ironic that Mother’s Day
falls only days after a North Carolina constitutional amendment banning
gay marriage. The great thing about being a parent is that it is
document and legislatively agnostic.
I am not savvy in the known or simply
understood gay protocol, so forgive me. I know this...over the years
through my profession, as a citizen of a diverse community, as a patron
and participant in the arts, and as a student of life, I have been
fortunate enough to develop dear relationships with humans of
extraordinary differences in their color, their religious practices,
their ideologies, their ethnicity, and yes, their preferences in their
life partners. My dear gay friends value my presence and love me in all
of my white, middle-aged, heterosexuality. Perhaps because they are so
fully aware that love and commitment are not concepts limited to a
gender formula. These people, most of them in very long-term, committed
relationships, represent some of the best of humanity. I am honored,
blessed, grateful, and thrilled to know and love you all. I am a better
man because you are in my life.
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