Bay State Pro-Family Advocate Finds Lesbian Couple's Split Unsurprising
by Natalie Harris
July 25, 2006
(AgapePress) - - A pro-family activist says he is not surprised that a lesbian couple that helped bring same-sex "marriage" to Massachusetts is now splitting up, after just two years of being in a legally-recognized relationship. The Goodridges were among seven homosexual couples whose lawsuit spurred the legalization of same-sex marriage in one state and fueled nationwide debate on the issue.
Brian Camenker, executive director of the group Article 8 Alliance/MassResistance, says the fact that Julie and Hillary Goodridge have decided to separate only two years after they were married in Massachusetts is no shock. Homosexual relationships, he contends, are not designed to last because they have no clearly defined structure.
Camenker says such homosexual marriage or domestic-partner relationships are especially hard on the children caught in the midst of them -- kids like the Goodridges' ten-year-old daughter Annie, for example. "Putting a child through this kind of a thing because they want to have a child but not letting the child know, really, what real, normal relationships are like is very, very selfish and self-centered," he observes.
"I think it's very cruel, very self-centered, very selfish," the pro-family activist says, "and I think that's one of the real main tragedies of this whole thing." He believes homosexuals who attempt to co-parent a child are raising him or her in an environment that is inherently unstable.
According to Camenker, homosexual couples who say they have been together for ten years or more are the exception, not the norm, and many of these are not held together by any sort of healthy dynamic. "Much of it is just the whole nature of these kinds of relationships," he says.
Often, in these relationships, Camenker adds, "there are all kinds of psychological issues going on, obsessions, things like that, that cause two men or two women to want to live together as husband and husband or wife and wife." Nevertheless, he observes, homosexual marriage announcements in Massachusetts newspapers are becoming rare.
Natalie Harris, a regular contributor to AgapePress, is an intern/news reporter for American Family Radio News, which can be heard online.
