Children of gay parents upset after O'Malley declines meeting

Topix Gay News  Aug 17 08

Kate Oliver forces back tears as she laments the laws that prevent her two dads from marrying. Oliver, a married mother of two girls, said it's wrong that Maryland won't allow her biological father, Ken Travers, to wed his longtime partner, Robert Harris. "I get a little emotional sometimes when I talk because it really hurts my heart to know that Bob's the only person in my family that I'm not legally connected to," she said. "I'm so emotionally connected to him." Full story...

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