Comments on: Opus Cartoon about Lesbian Moms Stirs Writers’ Wrath

By: What, no daddy? « Touchingly Naive

What, no daddy? « Touchingly Naive — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 22:08:42 +0000

[...] To save me having to write a real post on this subject: just go read this one and/or this one. (Second link has a full size image of the cartoon.) [...]

By: GlennSacks.com » Blog Archive » Gay/Lesbian Press Mischaracterizes My Criticism of OPUS Cartoon

Thu, 14 Jun 2007 19:34:32 +0000

[...] Now the gay press–including the prominent blogs Queerty and Pam’s House Blend as well as the lesbian mothers’ blog Mombian–are firing back. They criticize me and conservative religious writer Jennifer Roback Morse, who had later criticized the same cartoon in a Townhall.com column. I respect Morse and her work, but her views are obviously substantially different from mine. (To pick one example, she and I clashed a few months ago over my defense of lesbian social mothers’ custody rights in gay/lesbian divorces or civil union dissolutions–to learn more, click here.) [...]

By: El comic de la discordia | Lesbicanarias

El comic de la discordia | Lesbicanarias — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 18:29:56 +0000

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By: Mouse

Mouse — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 12:56:57 +0000

It’s also obvious that neither columnist regularly reads “Opus.” That or they’re glossing over some facts to make their argument. The particular father shown in the last frame is Steve Dallas, an aging ladies’ man who discovered belatedly that he is a father. Not exactly a great role model to his kid any time they show up together in a strip. So it’s not like this is anything new for Breathed.

Now it looks like I should go write some letters to editors to balance out some of the vitriol they’re sure to receive.