May 1, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) –
Conservative pundits are saying that a homosexual activist exposed the
hidden agenda behind homosexual “marriage” when she told an audience
last year that the movement is not seeking equality but rather a total
dismantling of the institution of marriage itself.
Masha Gessen, a journalist and author who campaigns for homosexual
'rights', made the comments last May in Australia on a panel at the
Sydney Writer’s Festival. She said:
It’s a no-brainer that (homosexual activists) should have the right to marry, but I also think equally that it’s a no-brainer that the institution of marriage should not exist. …(F)ighting for gay marriage generally involves lying about what we are going to do with marriage when we get there — because we lie that the institution of marriage is not going to change, and that is a lie.
The institution of marriage is going to change, and it should change. And again, I don’t think it should exist. And I don’t like taking part in creating fictions about my life. That’s sort of not what I had in mind when I came out thirty years ago.
Providing her own life as an example for her advocacy to do away with
marriage, Gessen described the complex family structure in which three
children whom she parents live: one of them is adopted with her
ex-partner, another - whom she birthed – has a biological father in
Russia, and the third is the biological child of her current partner and
Gessen’s brother. These three children have five adults in parenting
roles, but not all five adults parent all three children.
“The five parents break down into two groups of three,” she said. “And
really, I would like to live in a legal system that is capable of
reflecting that reality, and I don’t think that’s compatible with the
institution of marriage.”
