Troubled over File at Work

[His lamb]

Yesterday, we received a call from a lesbian who is having a baby with her "friend". They want to make sure both have full parental rights as parents, so she may need to adopt. Same sex "unions" (marriage) not yet legal or even recognized, yet, in our Province.

My boss warned me a long time ago when things started coming more public that we would have clients who are homosexual, etc. This is our first. He and I have talked about it and we both know where we both stand on this. But, now we have this file.

I am troubled and even wonder if I should quit my job (course then I am looking for any excuse to quit my job). I am a paralegal, there is only the lawyer I work for and myself in the office.

Maybe it is just hitting to close to me and I have been pushing all feelings away and need to stay in my protective mode of denial, of living a whole separate life outside reality, in my world of numbness.


His lamb

[Jerry]

I think the US. and Canada are the same on this point: All citizens are entitled to representation under the law.....No matter what we personally believe,,,,,and this is good really,because wisdom so easily escapes us.....
Love Jerry

[Emerging]

Oh, Lamb, this is hard! Jerry's right that we can't deny people their legal rights, but then again, there is a TON of literature (used often by control-freak men in divorce court) that over and over and over says how children need both FATHERS and MOTHERS to develop the best they can. (Of course I agree with this, but not the methods and lies used when the guy is soooo full of hate he would do *anything* to win. When anyone hates like that, they are NOT fit to be a parent imho but that's another topic....)

But it brings up this question - Can we use the extremists agaist each other somehow? What they *always* do is take a lie and build enough truth around it to make it *seem* true. So how do we expose the lie, and thus blow apart their whole crock of bull?

Rambling with sleepiness here....