Woman raised by lesbians comes out against same-sex marriage
By Josh Haggis
A woman who was raised by a lesbian couple has come out against same-sex marriage.
Heather Barwick, a 31-year-old mother of four, was raised by two women after her mother chose to leave her husband when Barwick was just a toddler, so she could be with the woman she loved.
Writing a column for The Federalist titled ‘Dear gay community, your kids are hurting,’ Barwick explained that even though she “loves” gay people, another mother could “never replace” the father that she lost.
‘I’m writing to you because I’m letting myself out of the closet: I don’t support gay marriage,” she wrote. “But it might not be for the reasons that you think. It’s not because you’re gay. I love you, so much. It’s because of the nature of the same-sex relationship itself.”
She continued: “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,” she added.
Barwick went on to reveal that it was only when she found Christ that she was able to heal her “father wound”, adding that the lack of father figure in her life made it difficult for her to understand how to be with her husband.
‘I’m not gay, but the relationship that was modeled before me was a woman loving a woman. So I’ve struggled as an adult figuring out how to be in a relationship with my husband,” she added.
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