BARR ON FMA: Jim Woodhull

[Jim is a venture capitalist and family man in Connecticut]

I knew little of Bob Barr before reading this other than he was involved in the Clinton impeachment (right thing to do, but our side had the wrong charges, in my view). I am impressed.

I agree with Mr. Barr, especially the part about gays seeking to marry having nothing to do with the problems of heterosexual marriage. And this week I came across an anecdote that I would like to run by you. My accountant is out here in Del Mar, California this week to do due diligence on a woman's clothing boutique whose purchase I am likely to finance. She happened to tell me the story of two gay male friends of hers in Houston who have been together "forever" who have a 4-year-old boy they plucked out of a wretched Russian orphanage when he was two. When they got him, he had severe speaking problems as a consequence of hearing problems. One of the two men is a speech therapist, and has worked with his new son so now the boy is doing great. The kid calls one "Dad" and the other "Papa".

Can a Christian really object to this poor boy being rescued from likely doom, no matter who did the rescuing? Can we have any serious doubts that this boy will grow up to be a taxpayer? These men are more deserving of being acknowledged as a "married couple" than an awful lot of conventional, selfish, me-generation couples I know.
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