Heather Has Two Mommies sparked national outrage, book burnings, and a debate about whether same-sex couples should raise children.
Some gay parents lost custody of their children: Sharon Bottoms was a 23-year-old-lesbian in 1993, when her 2-year-old-son, Tyler, was taken from her and given to her mother to raise.
The case made national headlines when the Virginia Supreme Court upheld a lower court’s ruling that said Bottoms’s same-sex relationship “was illegal and immoral” and “renders her an unfit parent.”As recently as 2012, Rick Santorum, then a Republican presidential candidate, said children are better off with a father in prison than being raised by two moms.A year later, when the U.S.