Point of View  12-year-old asks: Why do 6 out of 10 NC voters
see my two-mom family as wrong?  January 30, 2014   McKenley
Johnson, 12, with her mothers, Susan Johnson and Liz Burnette
It’s May 8, 2012, and I am sitting on the floor in front of the
television with my two moms, watching the final votes come in. I
hardly care, for I don’t really know what’s going on. I know
they seem upset, but I don’t fully get the implications. On May
8, 2012, I was only 10. Now I am 12, and I want answers about
the outcome of this anti-family amendment to our state
constitution.  I ask myself: Why are people so afraid of gays
and lesbians? What is the difference? We are all humans. Just
because one is gay, lesbian, transgender or queer, what makes
them so “scary”? How does one family’s choice to marry
negatively affect their neighbors? I know times are changing,
but there is still so much hatred out there. In multiple
libraries around the country, people have banned one of my
favorite children’s books, “And Tango Makes Thr