{"id":2360,"date":"2008-11-09T18:02:15","date_gmt":"2008-11-09T18:02:15","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-11-09T18:02:15","modified_gmt":"2008-11-09T18:02:15","slug":"gay-families-and-barack-obama-s-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/2008\/11\/gay-families-and-barack-obama-s-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Gay families and Barack Obama&#8217;s America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pete Cenedella, founder of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ifkidscouldvote.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>If Kids Could Vote<\/strong<\/a> shares his frustration with the conflicting laws that affect lesbian and gay parents.  Pete has several gay friends who are also parents.  He&#8217;s watching each family get treated differently as a result of various state and local parameters.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/pete-cenedella\/21st-century-barack-obama_b_142442.html\" target=\"_blank\">In his latest blog entry &#8211; at <strong>The Huffington Post<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; Pete writes, &#8220;I live in 2008, in Barack Obama&#8217;s America. It is a post-everything world but the laws of the land haven&#8217;t caught up with the people. All the characters in this little intro worked hard to get Obama elected. All the characters in this story are hard-working people, strong parents, loving and kind members of their communities. 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