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BRENTSVILLE, Virginia, November 29 (LifeSiteNews) – A local Republican politician is taking flak for telling a teenager being raised by lesbians that she has a right to a father.
Prince William County Brentsville Supervisor Jeanine Lawson spoke of 15-year-old Rose BruMar’s natural right to a father when the teen told her she’s being raised by “two moms.”
Lawson confirmed to local media that she said “every child deserves a mother and father” after Rose approached her outside Gainesville Middle School on election day.
According to Lawson’s account, she and the teen had a “pleasant and civil” conversation.
The teen told her, “One of my moms doesn’t like you.”
“That caught me by surprise a bit,” Lawson said. “She told me things about her family life, and I told her in a very polite way, I said I believe children deserve a mother and a father. It was not a debate about anything.”
One of Rose’s adoptive “moms,” Evelyn BruMar, is a Democratic activist who said Lawson’s comment “meant to hurt my daughter and devalue her.”
“File this one under ‘why is this news?’” Shaun Kenney of The Republican Standard wrote. “Lawson’s offense is that she
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