The Media Research Center — which regularly freaks out at anything insufficiently heterosexual in the media — has now turned its LGBT freakout attention to a mommy blogger. Sarah Stites begins her May 16 post this way:
On Sunday, famous Christian “mommy blogger” Glennon Doyle Melton — catapulted to fame through her writings on the messiness of marriage and motherhood — tied the knot with a woman. Although the union received considerable press coverage, few prominent outlets noted the effect this controversial decision would make on Melton’s three children.
Stites goes on to lament how Melton went from being “a mother of three, a New York Times bestseller and a coveted speaker with a following of millions” to divorcing her husband following his infidelity and — gasp! — meeting and then marrying Olympic soccer player Abby Wambach. Stites whined about how selfish Melton is purportedly being and for allegedly threatening her children’s “stability”:
As Melton professes to be a Christian, her elevation of personal fulfillment over her children’s stability is worrisome and unbiblical. And with a following of millions, it has the potential to lead many astray.
But most prominent media outlets focused on the new marriage, proffering few, if any, concerns about the children.
But wouldn’t Melton’s children have even more instability seeing their mother caught in a loveless marriage to a philandering husband? Stites appears to be too busy passing judgment on Melton for ceasing her heterosexual lifestyle to have considered that.