A Strategy to Change Minds: Focus on the Gay Family

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In response to California’s passage of Proposition 8, one couple used YouTube to show the world what a gay family with two adopted children looks like — a message that resonates this National Adoption Month.

Neither of them knew much about the future, but it looked bright when Jay Foxworthy and Bryan Leffew decided to register as civil partners in the state of California. It was Leffew’s birthday that clear night in 1998, and Foxworthy took him out for a night on the town, under the starlight, as two people in love do in San Francisco.