people.com:
Wanda Sykes and her wife, Alex, welcomed twins on April 27, her rep tells PEOPLE exclusively.
Daughter Olivia Lou weighed in at 6 lbs., 7 oz., and was 19-inches long. Son Lucas Claude debuted at 7 lbs., 9 oz., and was 20-inches long. The comedian's wife gave birth to the babies.
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Her clever delivery and confident energy work in her favor, but "black people drive like this" and "white people drive like that" comedy only goes so far and her routine tends to retreat into this over-played territory.
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All the best to the four of them!
I hope thier childrens kidneys are fine.
How can she have a wife? She's a woman.
Through marriage. Duh.
Gay marriage is legal in many places. Your archaic definitions are not held by everyone in the modern world, thankfully.
And to accomplish this, they still needed a person of the opposite sex, right?
Only 23 chromosomes worth.
Congrats to Wanda and Alex!
There is no right to marriage of any type in the Constitution.
It is up to the states to decide their definitions of marriage. So far, twenty-seven have sided with traditional marriage.
Whether you like it or not.
In the long term, bigotry will lose, as it always has in our history.
Every generation is more tolerant the preceding generation. A majority of people under 30 support gay marriage. The kids growing up today are going to be even more tolerant. Their kids are going to be even more tolerant. What do you think is going to happen when all of those kids reach voting age, combined with all of the current under 30 voters? Your side won't have the numbers to maintain this legalized discrimination.
Will it be nationally legal in the next 4 or 5 years? Doubtful. 20 or 30? Absolutely inevitable.
Whether you like it or not. As a wise man once said, "The times they are a changin." Why don't you go get yourself off the road if you can't lend a hand.
The same argument could have been made in Loving v Virginia.
Actually, more than 25% of the United States have sided with marriage equality for all.
And counting.
Whether you like it or not.
Then quit trying to overturn Roe v. Wade, hypocrite
There is, however, a right to equal protection under the law in the constitution.
What if the children want to meet their father? If would only be a natural inclination for them to want to meet their biological parent.
Then they'd probably meet at some point.
Many, many gay couples have raised children quite successfully. There is nothing wrong with it. Why do you have the need to be so judgmental?
I'm not being judgemental. I am just asking a question. I've heard the stories of adopted children wanting to meet their biological parents and wondered how same-sex couples plan to handle such situations. What if the father has his own children. Do you consider them half-siblings? What if he has a change of heart and wants to participate in raising the children?
Congratulations Wanda and Alex!!!
And you didn't go to far--not by half, in fact, if anything, you didn't go far enough!!!!
I second that. Congratulations.
Thank you for your great performance last week.
At last, someone that doesn't feel inclined to have to bow down to Rush and ask his forgiveness after slapping him upside the head. You'll make a great mother!! :)
We want to see the babies, we need the endorphins.
Good Luck.
Gee... yet again an responsible adult couple, who happen to be the same sex, want a loving existence as well as a family !! They dont owe the American public anything therefore should be able to expect a certain amount of privacy and respect just like anyone else. I wish them the best and hope for their equal rights as any other couple enjoys!! They are no more of a danger to marriage than my hetero life style is to them !! Kudos for the Press Club dinner gig !! Enjoy your family !! You and all others deserve those basic human rights !!
Wanda rules! good for them.
I'm in an interracial relationship that would have been illegal in 1960something. I was born in the 70s. Missed it by THAT much. :) Thank goodness my mother was born in the 50s. Neither one of us had to experience weird unconstitutional laws and such...oh wait!
To Mrs. and Mrs. Sykes, congrats! Your beautiful family is a gift to humanity. One day our children will look back and wonder how we lived through this time, the same way I regard the 60s and Jim Crow. Keep up the good fight, LBGTs.
GAY is NOT the new BLACK. The struggle is NOT the same
Yes it is.
And Latino isn't the new black either. And its not the new Hmong. Just because the discrimination and hate aren't identical, does that mean that the hate and discrimination don't suck?
At the end of the day, yes, it is, and gays have been persecuted and forced to hide in plain sight for much longer than Blacks were enslaved in chains and by Jim Crow. Don't belive me? Look up what the Inquisition did to 'sodomites," ad how long "anti-sodomy" laws have been on the books in America, and how they have been historically enforced, as well as how being gay used to be regarded as a form of mental illness.
It takes away nothing from the sufferings of Blacks at the hands of others to acknowledge that a gay man murdered for his orientation, is just as dead for just as cruel and unjust a reason as a Black man killed by a lynch mob.
Both are just as dead for equally unjust reasons.
Open your eyes.
Leland R. Erickson
Citizen
Congratulations to them, but no ones' family is a "gift to humanity." In fact, it would be a bigger gift to humanity to not dump more kids onto an already overpopulated planet.
Other than that I love the name of the son..Lucas Claude.
Congratulations! All the best for the both of you and your twins!
Respectfully & Sincerely,
Leland R. Erickson
Citizen
congradulations to both!
Congrats Wanda and Alex. If two willing adults love each others regardless of sex who are we to tell them that they can not marry. Only God, Allah, Buddha or who ever can judge. Stay out of folks bedrooms.
Marriage doesn't happen in the bedroom. It is a State/Federal issue. And as of right now, 86% of the US is Christian and does NOT approve of same sex marriage. And when it comes to PRO-Creation, it still requires 1 sperm and 1 egg.
Funny how GOD made it a requirement between 1 man and 1 woman to share themselves to create a child.
Perhaps 86% of the United States identifies as Christian, but every recent poll on the topic of same-sex marriage shows public opinion split down the middle:
From two weeks ago:
http://abcnews.go.com/PollingUnit/Obama100days/story?id=7459488&page=1
From today:
http://www.quinnipiac.edu/x1318.xml?ReleaseID=1299
Nobody cares about your mythology, stop trying to use it to justify the denial of civil rights.
Which God?
God also said that you have to stone your children to death if they do not honor you. And that women can't wear pants.
And my wife and I aren't having kids. So we shouldn't be married either, right? And what about divorcees and widows who have passed menarche? Should they be barred from marriage?
Just because someone identifies themselves as a christian, doesn't mean they all hold the same social idealogies. You need to get educated on that fact! Most follow the teachings of jesus, who would not think to persecute those brothers and sisters who choose to follow his ways, be they man man or woman woman. Jesus was a loving, community organizer. Shame on you for calling yourself a "christian".
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First Posted: 05-13-09 11:51 PM | Updated: 06-13-09 05:12 AM