It was a favorite of the hysterical right back when they were conquering America--remember? Heather Has Two Mommies, the little book was called. It was meant to introduce the wide-eyed young to the possibility of different family arrangements. The book aimed at natural (and I mean that word in the Lockean sense) notions of equity and fairness that children bring to their naïve judgments of right and wrong.
But allies of Dick and Lynn Cheney were outraged.
Precisely because they...
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