Homosexual “marriage” doesn’t just redefine marriage, but also parenting.

Heather Barwick was raised by her mother who was in a same-sex partnership. Although she felt loved and cared for dearly, she is speaking out against same-sex marriage and championing the importance of children growing up in a traditional family.

In an open letter to the homosexual community published to The Federalist, Barwick becomes the voice for other children in similar situations who may be too afraid to speak out, lest they be labeled a bigot.

“A lot of us, a lot of your kids, are hurting,” she boldly states. “I’m writing to you because I’m letting myself out of the closet: I don’t support gay marriage.” She explains:

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. 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.

Unfortunately, Barwick said her father “wasn’t a great guy” and never came around after her mother and he divorced: “She left him when I was two or three because she wanted a chance to be happy with someone she really loved: a woman.”

Even though she loved her mom’s partner, Barwick needed her father. “My father’s absence created a huge hole in me, and I ached every day for a dad,” she admits.

Her letter pleads to a community she refers to as “my people.” She applauds them for teaching her some of life’s hardest lessons. But she also recalls feeling much confusion surrounded by lesbians who said “they didn’t need or want a man” especially during a time she “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.

“Why can’t gay people’s kids be honest?” Barwick asks. She argues that children from divorced parents can openly admit that their lives have been “crushed.” Adopted children are allowed to speak of their confusion of never having met their real parents. But it’s not the same for children with homosexual parents. Barwick explains:

Many of us are too scared to speak up and tell you about our hurt and pain, because for whatever reason it feels like you’re not listening. That you don’t want to hear. If we say we are hurting because we were raised by same-sex parents, we are either ignored or labeled a hater.

http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/open-letter-homosexual-parents-your-kids-are-hurting