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- Wednesday, 21 October 2009
NOT HAPPY, JOHN
If I have to read another of John Meyer’s self-congratulatory raves [www.sstar.net.au] about what a successful gay dad he is, I think I’ll be sick.
John, we commend you for your successful transition to gay dad. I guess it must help to have a docile ex-wife, supportive parents, and no doubt a couple of accepting girlfriends.
But your story is not the norm. Overwhelmingly it is a traumatising experience for all concerned. For every sweet, ordinary Dawn, there are at least 20 bitter and revengeful women who feel cheated by their changed circumstances.
I also have two kids, and when I left, my ex did everything she could to make life difficult, including attempts to stop access for me and my partner, as well as trying her best to destroy my relationship with the kids. I know of many other gay fathers who have had similar experiences to me.
While enviable, your situation is a fairytale for most. So please stop rabbiting on in every column about how happy you are with your lot.
It may instead be better if you offered support to the many closeted men out there who do not know how to deal with the trauma of family break-up.
— Stephen
OBAMA AND GAY RIGHTS
President Obama is going to have a tough row to hoe dealing with all the brass in the military (all branches) with this [‘Obama faces heat over gay rights’, www.sstar.net.au]. These folks will fight him at every single turn to stop it.
I understand the President can, with one fell swoop, make an executive order to end ‘Don’t Ask Don’t Tell’ and allow homosexuals to serve openly in the military (as so many other countries are successfully doing now) but to do so will certainly cost the President millions of votes in the next election providing he does it during this his first term.
Waiting until his next term is most likely — providing he’s elected (health care notwithstanding) — and if he holds off until then and ‘promises’ to end “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” his next term, I doubt seriously that he would win the election.
So he’s kind of damned if he does and damned if he doesn’t. His head is on the chopping block with this and it’s going to be interesting to see how he plays it.
— David
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