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Title: 'I'm gay. And I want my kid to be gay too': Married MSNBC pundit admits she is disappointed her daughter appears to be straight
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Daily Mail Online
URL Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art ... gay-want-daughter-gay-too.html
Published: Feb 22, 2015
Author: Belinda Robinson For Mail Online
Post Date: 2015-02-22 12:49:08 by cranky
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Views: 5634
Comments: 24
A high-profile gay mom is set to spark controversy after she said that she would be disappointed if her daughter grew up and was not gay too. Sally Kohn, 37, a political commentator who has appeared on CNN and MSNBC, describes herself as living in the 'liberal bubble of Park Slope, Brooklyn, where 'yuppies' want their kids to be happy. She said: 'I'm gay. And I want my kid to be gay, too.' Scroll down for video Family: Sally Kohn, right, Willa Hansen-Kohn, center, and Sarah Hansen hug during a trip in New Mexico during October 2014 (Courtesy of Sally Kohn) View: Sally Kohn, 37, a CNN and MSNBC political commentator said 'I'm gay. And I want my kid to be gay, too' In a lengthy essay in The Washington Post Kohn explained that, she, like most parents simply wants her child to follow in her footsteps. She writes: 'If we went to college, we want our kids to go to college. If we like sports, we want our kids to like sports. If we vote Democrat, of course we want our kids to vote Democrat.' Kohn, a liberal political commentator, community organizer, and founder and chief executive officer of the Movement Vision Lab, a grassroots think tank is also a contributor to the Fox News Channel. And, she is no stranger to controversy. In 2014, she wrote that referring to an undocumented person as an 'illegal immigrant' was like calling a black person the N-word. And she frequently writes about how her sexuality impacts parenting daughter Willa Hansen Kohn, 6, along with partner Sarah Hansen. In a parenting blog for The New York Times she wrote about how she felt being 'a butch lesbian' getting her then five year old daughter a Princess makeover at Disney. A Youtube video of her daughter in 2010, when she was just two-years-old entitled 'My 2 year old explains the Bush tax cuts.' But while she is known for her outspoken views, she admits that her straight friends have a massive problem with her wanting her six-year-old daughter to be gay when she grows up. She wrote: [One friend asked] 'Don't you want her to be happy?' Kohn said: 'If my daughter is gay, I don't worry about her having a hard life. But I do worry about people expecting her to have a hard life — helping to perpetuate discrimination that might otherwise fade' She adds: 'A friend once told me 'I wouldn't even choose for myself to be gay.' It was a sad admission, because she was.' She goes on to suggest that there is a widely-held viewpoint that 'no one would choose to be gay — even in the gay rights movement.' She adds: I've never for a single second regretted being gay, nor saw it as anything other than an asset and a gift. 'My parents were ridiculously supportive from Day One, and I had a great community of friends and mentors who made me feel unconditionally accepted. 'By the time my daughter comes of age, she'll have even more of a support network, including two moms, for crying out loud.' 'If my daughter is gay, I don't worry about her having a hard life. But I do worry about people expecting her to have a hard life — helping to perpetuate discrimination that might otherwise fade more quickly. 'I want my daughter to know that being gay is equally desirable to being straight. 'The problem is not the idea that homosexuality could be a choice but the idea that heterosexuality should be compulsory. 'In my house it's plainly, evidently not. We've bought every picture book featuring gay families, even the not-very-good ones and we have most of the nontraditional-gender-role books as well — about the princess who likes to fight dragons and the boy who likes to wear dresses. 'When my daughter plays house with her stuffed koala bears as the mom and dad, we gently remind her that they could be a dad and dad. 'Sometimes she changes her narrative. Sometimes she doesn't. It's her choice.' 'Time will tell, but so far, it doesn't look like my six-year-old daughter is gay. In fact, she's boy crazy.'
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I'm sick, and I want my kid to be sick!...../s
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