Zach Wahls compared to Stockholm Syndrome slave defending her masters by Robert Oscar Lopez in post by National Organization for Marriage affiliate, Witherspoon Institute

Maggie Gallagher (left) and MIT professor Robert P. George,
a Senior Fellow of the Witherspoon Institute and widely
considered to be a financial mover and shaker of the group.
George co-authored, with Watergate felon Chuck Colson,
the Manhattan Declaration, which exhorted signers to ignore
laws which prohibit discrimination against LGBT people
and which was twice rejected by Apple as an iPhone app.

Here's an appalling excerpt of the piece, from Public Discourse, a publication of the Witherspoon Institute. You can read more about the activities of that establishment here.

...From virtually all angles, the modern-day equivalent of uprooted blacks reduced to chattel and severed from their own flesh and blood is not anyone in a same-sex couple, but rather, any child forced to be raised by such a couple!
     Literature is useful here. Read Phillis Wheatley's “On Being Brought from Africa to America.”
     She was removed from her birthplace, Senegambia, and brought to New England to live under the ownership of John Wheatley. The Wheatleys were fond of her and taught her Latin and English. She wrote a set of poems called Poems on Various Subjects, and published them at around the same age Zach Wahls was when he testified that growing up with two moms was great. “On Being Brought from Africa to America” is the most anthologized and most agonizingly controversial poem in that historic poetry collection. Here it is below:

'Twas mercy brought me from my Pagan land,
Taught my benighted soul to understanding
That there's a God, that there's a Saviour too:
Once I redemption neither sought nor knew.
Some view our sable race with a scornful eye,
“Their colour is a diabolic die.”
Remember, Christians, Negros, black as Cain,
May be refin'd and join th'angelic train.

     She thanks whoever took her as a little girl from her birthplace to New England. She thanks the people who enslaved her... Our basic skeptical faculties can tell us that whatever gratitude Wheatley expressed above was compromised...
     Can we trust the testimony of a teenager testifying in court in front of his lesbian moms? Is our skepticism that atrophied? Are we that blind to common sense? Can we take seriously a letter written by a little girl to the president about her gay dads? 

David Blankenhorn offered some pushback to Lopez in FamilyScholars.org:

     ...Lopez has a valid story to tell. (Don’t we all.)  He’s a powerful writer who knows exactly what he wants to say.  In my view, there is some portion of hard truth in what he writes.   I thought so when I opposed gay marriage, and I still think so now that I favor it. I credit Lopez for these things. 
     But overall, I am repulsed by what Lopez says and the way he says it.  To me, his voice is the voice of the fanatic, the denouncer of others, the accuser, the utterly self-confident dogmatist who wants to pound us all, in party by the sheer vehemence of his language, into accepting whatever doctrine he is insisting on.  I read him with care, and I find some nuggets of truth, including some that are troubling to me now (in a good way), but  in him I find no wisdom, no maturity, no way of seeing the world that reminds me in any way of our shared humanity or the  complexity and mystery of the human condition.  
     I do not a trust a voice of this type on anything that truly matters to me.

     Predictably, NOM's Maggie Gallagher defended Lopez, and by extension, his contemptible attack, in her comment on Blankenhorn's response. Gallagher accused Blankenhorn of finding Lopez repulsive and placed herself on higher ground, even though Blankenhorn clearly labeled what Lopez said as repulsive. Does Gallagher really think that the reading comprehension of Blankenhorn's audience is so poor that she can fool them so easily?

(H/T JoeMyGod)