{"id":9515,"date":"2014-09-01T20:45:33","date_gmt":"2014-09-01T20:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/?p=9515"},"modified":"2014-09-01T20:49:40","modified_gmt":"2014-09-01T20:49:40","slug":"one-little-girls-crusade-to-help-her-gay-uncles-get-married","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/2014\/09\/one-little-girls-crusade-to-help-her-gay-uncles-get-married\/","title":{"rendered":"One little girl\u2019s crusade to help her gay uncles get married"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><script>\/\/ <![CDATA[\n(function(d, s, id) {   var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];   if (d.getElementById(id)) return;   js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;   js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\";   fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n<p>An Australian eight-year-old named Abbey is desperate to see her gay uncles, Gregory and his partner, Michael, legally married. She&#8217;s taking her cause all the way to the prime minister. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gps.storer.net.au\/2014\/08\/when-abbey-writes-to-the-pm\/\" target=\"_blank\">According to her uncle&#8217;s blog<\/a>, every day for a week Abbey has written to Prime Minister Tony Abbott asking him to change the law and make same-sex marriage legal.<\/p>\n<p>As Abbey mentions in one of the letters, Storer and Barnett are on a reality-TV show called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsreality.com\/post\/gay-couple-to-swap-lives-with-homophobic-pastor-on-australian-living-with-the-enemy\" target=\"_blank\">Living With the Enemy<\/a> in which they share a house with a virulently homophobic Anglican minister. <\/p>\n<p>Whether the little girl&#8217;s letters are a publicity ploy for a strange reality show, a genius strategy in the quest for same-sex marriage rights in Australia, or the genuine outpouring of love for an uncle (or all of the above), it&#8217;s got to be hard to say no to this drawing of Abbey with uncles Gregory and Michael.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/candadianneice9114.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/candadianneice9114.jpg\" alt=\"candadianneice9114\" width=\"700\" height=\"272\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9518\" srcset=\"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/candadianneice9114.jpg 700w, https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/candadianneice9114-300x116.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.takepart.com\/article\/2014\/08\/11\/crusade-help-gay-uncles-get-married\" target=\"_blank\">TakePart<\/a><br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-comments\" data-href=\"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/9515\" data-num-posts=\"10\" data-width=\"700\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Australian eight-year-old named Abbey is desperate to see her gay uncles, Gregory and his partner, Michael, legally married. 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