by Frank S. Zepezauer

About the author: Frank S. Zepezauer is a freelance writer.

Time is running out. The gay family must be stopped before it secures a permanent place in law and custom. Only a little time remains because the gay “alternative family” is already deeply institutionalized. And it might soon receive the sanction of marriage. The evidence surrounds us.

Many such “families,” for example, already exist. In 1990, Newsweek estimated that between three and five million lesbians and gay parents had children in the context of a heterosexual relationship, that one-third of all lesbians were mothers, and that seven million children had gay parents. As far back as the 1970s, estimates on the number of lesbian mothers went as high as three million. It is now estimated...