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Photographer Bart Heynen set out across the untry to make a visual archive of gay fatherhood "Dads."

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FATHER AND SON MARRY: A GAY MAN HAS MARRIED HIS ADOPTED SON IN PENNSYLVANIA

A father and son have gotten married Pennsylvania. The gay uple, who have lived as father and son for the past four years, tied the knot last week after a Pennsylvania urt allowed the men to dissolve their father-son relatnship so they uld live as married partners stead, The Inpennt is reportg. Roland Bosee... Read more » Father And Son Marry: A Gay Man Has Married His Adopted Son In Pennsylvania is an article om: The Inquisr News * father son gay marriage *

The gay uple, who have lived as father and son for the past four years, tied the knot last week after a Pennsylvania urt allowed the men to dissolve their father-son relatnship so they uld live as married partners stead, The Inpennt is Bosee Jr, 79, legally adopted No Esposom 69, 2012.

FORMER FATHER AND SON NOW A MARRIED GAY COUPLE IN PENNSYLVANIA

This weekend, the gay son of Rep. Glenn Thompson, R-Pa., got married. A few days earlier, his father voted agast the Defense of Marriage Act. * father son gay marriage *

At the time, gay marriage was not legal Pennsylvania, so the two men did somethg that was not unual before gay marriage beme legal: the olr man adopted the younger man as a procral move to protect themselv gay marriage beme legal, some gay partnerships one partner would adopt the other. This would offer some legal protectns for the uple, such as protectg herance or makg end-of-life Ronald and No, who have been a uple sce the 1970’s acrdg to Pk News, their stat as father and son ed them some trouble once gay marriage beme legal Pennsylvania. The two men would have to ntue livg as father and son, at least here to ntue and read And Son Marry: A Gay Man Has Married His Adopted Son In Pennsylvania is an article om: The Inquisr News.

WHAT TO DO WHEN A GAY CHILD MARRI

Before the end of June, the Supreme Court will likely issue lgs on two landmark same-sex marriage s. In one, Uned Stat v. Wdsor, the urt uld terme whether the feral Defense of Marriage Act vlat the nstutnal rights of same-sex upl. The other, Hollgsworth v. Perry, tackl Proposn 8, California’s ban on gay marriage that voters narrowly passed 2008. Ahead of the cisns, Yahoo News asked same-sex upl who married sce the arguments end to share stori and photos om their weddgs and how they feel as the lgs loom. Featured this slishow are Arshad Hasan and Abbott Stark, who married June Vermont. The state has 2,143 same-sex upl Vermont, or about 8.4 same-sex upl per 1,000 hoeholds, acrdg to the Cens Bure. Before legalizg gay marriage 2009, Vermont allowed civil unns sce 2000. (All photos are pyrighted by Karen Pike om <a href="" target="new1">;/a>) —Tim Skillern * father son gay marriage *

Before stat across the untry began strikg down bans on same-sex marriage and the Supreme Court ultimately cid the issue natnwi, some gay upl ed adoptn laws as a way to ga legal regnn as a fay, and the related benefs such as herance and hospal visatn rights.

GOP LAWMAKER ATTEND GAY SON'S WEDDG 3 DAYS AFTER VOTG AGAST SAME-SEX MARRIAGE

This week two men Pennsylvania went om beg father and son to hband and that might make you do a double take - the adoptn was a legal technily for the gay uple so they uld obta rights they weren't allowed as MacArthur, 74, and Bill Novak, 76, have be... * father son gay marriage *

Some probate judg and other public officials the South, cg relig objectns, stopped issug marriage licens all together to avoid issug licens to gay upl. A pair of elrly gay lovers Pennsylvania went om beg father and son to beg a married uple. In 2014, a judge led that the state’s law agast gay marriage was unnstutnal.

FATHER’S TOAST AT SON’S GAY MARRIAGE SIGNALS CHANGE ATTU

Rsell is gay, and wants to know why his father Harold oppos same-sex marriage. When they talk about , someone ually storms out of the room. * father son gay marriage *

Clemons believ the se pav the way for other gay upl who may be the same posn as MacArthur and Novak. A new book, When Your Gay Or Lbian Child Marri: A Gui for Parents, nsirs that qutn.

SAME-SEX MARRIAGE: A GAY MAN AND HIS FATHER S DOWN TO BATE SSM

A gay man who had to adopt his partner of 46 years for them to be together will now fally be allowed to marry him. * father son gay marriage *

Merrill, a soclogy profsor at Clark Universy, terviewed parents ag 50 to 80 who had both homosexual and heterosexual married adult children.

One big surprise om her rearch: Parents often have better ntug relatnships wh gay upl.

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Frank Schaefer, like other lears of Uned Methodist ngregatns, had difficult choic to make when his son acknowledged that he is gay. * father son gay marriage *

Gay weddgs are not whout their difficulti, particularly for parents wh mixed feelgs about their child's nuptials. "Some parents were embarrassed bee they had not prevly let the extend fay know their child was gay, " Merrill says. Merrill urg parents to be acceptg, or as one of the moms she terviewed said, "You have set asi your own feelgs about homosexualy om your love for your child.

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Many gay upl the US ed adoptn to ga legal fay ti before same-sex marriage beme legal * father son gay marriage *

Frankly, my advice to everyone who has a problem wh two people gettg married, whether 's bee they're gay or any other reason, is to md your own bs. A Republin lawmaker attend his gay son’s weddg jt three days after jog the majory of his GOP lleagu votg agast a Hoe bill that would dify feral protectns for same-sex gay son of Rep. One of five Republin senators who has already nfirmed a y vote on the bill is Rob Portman of Oh, who clared his support for same-sex marriage 2013 after his son me out as gay.

Perry, tackl Proposn 8, California’s ban on gay marriage that voters narrowly passed 2008.

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Before legalizg gay marriage 2009, Vermont allowed civil unns sce 2000. This week two men Pennsylvania went om beg father and son to hband and that might make you do a double take - the adoptn was a legal technily for the gay uple so they uld obta rights they weren't allowed as MacArthur, 74, and Bill Novak, 76, have been together for over 50 years.

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For Harold, discsg same-sex marriage wh his gay son was one thg. Dealg wh the social media fallout — and then cidg how to vote — was another. * father son gay marriage *

When they moved to Pennsylvania 2000, a lawyer told them sce domtic partnerships weren't regnised the state, if they wanted to reta faial legal rights, then Bill uld adopt Norman - two years his rights MacArthur and Novak wanted to protect that Pennsylvania didn't extent to gay upl clud hospal visg rights and the abily to her each other's assets. Acrdg to Lambda Legal, a legal anisatn that mpaigns for LGBTQ equaly, such arrangements are not unmon when gay upl want to be seen as related the ey of the a judge led Pennsylvania's law agast gay marriage was unnstutnal last year, MacArthur and Novak cid they wanted to get married.

Posted Monday 9 Oct 2017 at 7:02pmMon 9 Oct 2017 at 7:02pm, updated Monday 13 Jun 2022 at 12:14amMon 13 Jun 2022 at 12:14amRsell is gay and his father Harold oppos same-sex marriage. The actns that followed — a rebelln his ngregatn, a church trial, a ockg and then, last month, a restatement — have ma the Schaefers symbols of the nundm facg much of Amerin Christiany: How do relig doctre on homosexualy rpond to the longgs for spirualy and muny om ngregants and fay members who are gay? “His own church was sayg to him that, as a homosexual, you n’t go to heaven, ” Frank Schaefer said.

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’ ”In a seri of recent terviews, by telephone and Washgton, where they attend a gay pri event wh Print Obama at the Whe Hoe, father and son scribed their separate and shared cris of love and fah, which began 2001 when Tim, then high school, acknowledged to his parents that he was, now 52, had grown up a nservative Baptist church Wt Germany, believg homosexualy was a s, but had quietly bee more acceptg. Tim, now 30, had grown up his father’s nservative Uned Methodist church Pennsylvania, beg prsed and ntemplatg throwg himself off the roof of a parsonage when he realized he was gay. ”Frank Schaefer rells the moment Tim me out to his parents as “a stab through our heart, ” not bee Tim was gay, but bee he had been unsure he uld nfi them and had stggled private.

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’ Gay marriage is a punishable offense, by trial and ockg, so I expected to be fired. He did not tell his ngregatn, but on Father’s Day 2008, he gave a sermon on unndnal love which he acknowledged that his son was gay.

A few other misters Christian tradns that oppose same-sex marriage have ma siar choic recent months after learng that one or more of their children are gay.

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Danny Cortez, announced that he was “gay-affirmg” after his son me out as gay; the Southern Baptist Conventn has not yet cid whether to rpond. Ogletree, a Uned Methodist mister who is a former an of the Yale Divy School, officiated at the weddg of his gay son. The nomatn is divid over sexualy issu, and although has l that ban the ordatn of “self-avowed practicg homosexuals” and the celebratn of same-sex marriag, hundreds of clergy have said they are willg to officiate at the ceremoni vlatn of church law, and 36 who blsed a same-sex weddg to show support for Frank Schaefer now face a disciplary procs, more than 600 ngregatns have clared that they wele people of every sexual orientatn, and several bishops have challenged the church’s teachg, cludg one California who offered Frank Schaefer a job the day after he was Frank and Tim Schaefer are remtg to their relatnship wh the Uned Methodist Church, or at least wh Christiany.

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Frank Schaefer, who has three gay children and a straight son, has bee a sought-after speaker on gay rights and an advote for change; a church appeals panel orred him restated as a mister last month, and he has accepted a church posn misterg to the universy muny Santa Barbara, Calif. And Tim Schaefer, who rumed attendg Uned Methodist Church servic after disverg that his lol ngregatn Hull, Mass., was not only welg of gays but was also led by an openly gay pastor, has cid he wants to follow his father to mistry.

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“The only thg that ma me qutn that was that I thought, as a gay person, I will never be accepted as a pastor, and I was not gog to be one of those people who nied what I was, remaed celibate or pretend to be a heterosexual marriage. ”A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 1 of the New York edn wh the headle: Pastor Led Son’s Gay Weddg, Revealg Flt Le Church. Sign up to our Eveng Headl email for your daily gui to the latt newsSign up to our ee US Eveng Headl emailAn Amerin uple seekg a same-sex marriage have faced plitns, after legally beg father and son three years the Supreme Court ma same-sex marriage legal all 50 US stat this year, many gay upl the untry ed adoptn as a means to ga legal fay ti.

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Former Father And Son Now A Married Gay Couple In Pennsylvania .

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