Woman Raised by Lesbians Writes Essay Against Same Sex Couples Raising Children

Andrew Anglin
Daily Stormer
March 22, 2015

Heather Barwick: She definitely turned out better than you would have expected.
Heather Barwick: She definitely turned out better than you would have expected.

A woman raised by lesbians, who is now 30-years-old and married, as written an essay about how horrible it was to be raised by homosexualists.  Incredibly, she did not end up a drug-addled mess or commit suicide as most children of these alleged “families” do.

Heather Barwick, whose mother broke up with her father and went gay, stresses that she has no issue with gays generally, but simply feels it is unfair to children to put them in the bizarre position of being raised by two people of the same sex.

It is an all around logical presentation from a very liberal point of view.

The Federalist:

Gay community, I am your daughter. My mom raised me with her same-sex partner back in the ’80s and ’90s. She and my dad were married for a little while. She knew she was gay before they got married, but things were different back then. That’s how I got here. It was complicated as you can imagine. She left him when I was two or three because she wanted a chance to be happy with someone she really loved: a woman.

My dad wasn’t a great guy, and after she left him he didn’t bother coming around anymore.

Do you remember that book, “Heather Has Two Mommies”? That was my life. My mom, her partner, and I lived in a cozy little house in the ‘burbs of a very liberal and open-minded area. Her partner treated me as if I was her own daughter. Along with my mom’s partner, I also inherited her tight-knit community of gay and lesbian friends. Or maybe they inherited me?

Either way, I still feel like gay people are my people. I’ve learned so much from you. You taught me how to be brave, especially when it is hard. You taught me empathy. You taught me how to listen. And how to dance. You taught me not be afraid of things that are different. And you taught me how to stand up for myself, even if that means I stand alone.

I’m writing to you because I’m letting myself out of the closet: I don’t support gay marriage. But it might not be for the reasons that you think.

Children Need a Mother and Father

It’s not because you’re gay. I love you, so much. It’s because of the nature of the same-sex relationship itself.

Growing up, and even into my 20s, I supported and advocated for gay marriage. It’s only with some time and distance from my childhood that I’m able to reflect on my experiences and recognize the long-term consequences that same-sex parenting had on me. And it’s only now, as I watch my children loving and being loved by their father each day, that I can see the beauty and wisdom in traditional marriage and parenting.

Same-sex marriage and parenting withholds either a mother or father from a child while telling him or her that it doesn’t matter. That it’s all the same. But it’s not. A lot of us, a lot of your kids, are hurting. My father’s absence created a huge hole in me, and I ached every day for a dad. I loved my mom’s partner, but another mom could never have replaced the father I lost.

I grew up surrounded by women who said they didn’t need or want a man. Yet, as a little girl, I so desperately wanted a daddy. It is a strange and confusing thing to walk around with this deep-down unquenchable ache for a father, for a man, in a community that says that men are unnecessary. There were times I felt so angry with my dad for not being there for me, and then times I felt angry with myself for even wanting a father to begin with. There are parts of me that still grieve over that loss today.

I’m not saying that you can’t be good parents. You can. I had one of the best. I’m also not saying that being raised by straight parents means everything will turn out okay. We know there are so many different ways that the family unit can break down and cause kids to suffer: divorce, abandonment, infidelity, abuse, death, etc. But by and large, the best and most successful family structure is one in which kids are being raised by both their mother and father.

This type of honesty isn’t allowed in liberal circles, even though it is coming from a liberal point of view. The fact is that liberalism – really, cultural Marxism or SJWism – is the most dogmatic ideology which has ever existed, and really cannot undergo any form of criticism, even from its own people.

I recently noted that none of the big gangster rappers came out to talk about Ferguson, and most of them had to have been thinking “man dat nigga gots what he had commin.” But if Gucci Mane or 50 Cent or whoever would have come out and said this, they would have been shouted down and dismissed as anti-Black racists.

Dr. James Watson is himself a liberalish person, and simply mentioned in an interview that he believed Blacks may be genetically different than Whites, and he was brutally attacked, having his whole life and honor stripped from him by the Jew media character assassins.

It is the same with homosexualism. If anyone criticizes any aspect of the narrative, they are shouted down and attacked as a heretic, kicked out of the club.

This truly is 1984. We are not allowed to say anything. No one is allowed to say anything. The positions are decided, and you simply must go along with them.

But who is deciding all these positions?

Typical victim.