Gene Robinson Part Two: A Boy Named Vicki Gene

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Gene Robinson talks to Ruth Gledhill in New York: His parents, poor tenant farmers, were told he would certainly die. Before his birth, they had come up with a girl's name, Vicky Jean, after his father, Victor and his mother, Imogene. "In his distress he just changed the spelling and thought it wouldn't matter on a tombstone. So that's the name on my birth certificate." The full interview is here (£) http://bit.ly/abZ68n Read my news story here (£) http://bit.ly/bZK7dj and commentary here on the courage of The Episcopal Church http://bit.ly/8Y1XL2 (£)

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  • No wonder this fool is messed up - being called "Vicky" by parents who were too stupid (or lazy or both) to change it when they realised they had a boy instead of a girl & the baby didn't die ... as a kid he would've grown up with serious identity problems ... I wish I could say "Only in America", but now it seems the rot has spread elsewhere also (eg INXS singer Michael Hutchence (now dead) calling his daughter "Heavenly Hilaly Tiger Lily", or some crap like that).

  • Nice guy & cool interview - thanks for sharing :)

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