Earlier this month, Newsweek published a rather controversial and thought-provoking edition gay marriage. I flipped through the pages over dinner one night…religious case for same-sex unions.

Yep. I’m feelin’ ya.

I’ve been wrangling with the Catholic Church’s position and mine for years. I’ve pretty much racked it up to “let’s agree to disagree” and it’s become one of those bones of contention that I pretty much ignore unless directly challenged by it (which is largely why my husband and I opted out of a ministry that was actively supporting California’s Prop 8).

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I recently happened upon a thread whose original argument was about the gay marriage debate. I wasn’t interested in weighing in the gay marriage part, as I’m pretty ambivalent about gay marriage in general.

The real issue for me, and which was barely mentioned, were the comments of a poster who mentioned that her four gay friends, a female couple and a male couple, were having twins and splitting them between themselves. One of the women was artificially inseminated by one of the gay male’s sperm, and they had decided that each of the couples would take one of the twins after birth.

Now, I respect their right to have children. Gay couples are as capable of being loving and nurturing parents as any straight parent, however…splitting up the twins? I know that the commenter said that they have a close relationship and the twins would see each other often, but doesn’t that seem like it could cause undue trauma? And I think we all have had close friendships that suddenly turned sour. This just seems incredibly selfish to me, and it wouldn’t matter if the couples were straight, I would still feel the same way.