I am appalled by the fact that our government wants to censor a children’s show because it profiles a loving family. I obviously have not seen the infamous episode of “Buster the Bunny,” in which he visits a family where the parents are lesbians, but I certainly hope to see it.

While this story was being covered on the news, a Maine man said that he is glad that the show is censored. He wants to see a return to “traditional family values.” Does he mean family values that promote heterosexual marriage, 50 percent of which result in divorce? Family values that will make children of same-sex parents feel as though they, and their families, are aberrations? Will that not hurt those children? Is that valuable to him?

Or does he mean family values that will help maintain the status quo, in which a straight, white man like himself has power? Because I cannot see value in any of these “traditions.” What I do see is discrimination, domination, ignorance and extreme fear, and that breaks my heart.

As clich as this might be, I know a lesbian couple who are two of the finest parents that I know. They adopted a friend of mine when he was in his teens because his traditional family, with its values, rejected him. I am glad I do not have children, because I would not know how to explain why the tradition of discrimination is valued more than love and inclusion.

Sarah Carnahan, Farmington

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