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.

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