{"id":2319,"date":"2008-10-30T18:29:55","date_gmt":"2008-10-30T18:29:55","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-10-30T18:29:55","modified_gmt":"2008-10-30T18:29:55","slug":"melissa-etheridge-shares-her-story-about-adoption-and-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/2008\/10\/melissa-etheridge-shares-her-story-about-adoption-and-marriage\/","title":{"rendered":"Melissa Etheridge shares her story about adoption and marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Melissa Etheridge knows how it feels to be denied the right to adopt because she\u2019s gay.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI remembered being a new mom in 1997,\u201d she writes in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/blogs-and-stories\/2008-10-29\/my-typical-homo-family\/\" target=\"_blank\">blog post at <strong>The Daily Beast<\/strong><\/a>. \u201cI followed the long trail of red tape to find a way to adopt my children so they could be covered by health insurance, or so I could see them in the hospital in case of some emergency, along with dozens of other reasons.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She was denied because California prohibited adoption by same-sex couples. But then with the help of a lawyer, she convinced a judge to overrule the denial and allow the adoption to go through.<\/p>\n<p>Melissa now worries that the same obstacles will damage other families if voters pass Proposition 8, the California initiative seeking to overturn the state\u2019s legalization of same-sex marriage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow, I know my preference of lifemate freaks some people out,\u201d she writes. \u201cMaybe it is just their fear of sex or intimacy. I know that they hold up the Bible and say that it\u2019s wrong. Fine, let me stand before my creator and take any consequences there might be to living my life in truth and balance with my spirit.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Melissa Etheridge knows how it feels to be denied the right to adopt because she\u2019s gay. \u201cI remembered being a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[1024],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Melissa Etheridge shares her story about adoption and marriage - Proud Parenting<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/2008\/10\/melissa-etheridge-shares-her-story-about-adoption-and-marriage\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Melissa Etheridge shares her story about adoption and marriage - 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