Hate from beyond the grave
A man tries to bribe his gay son into marrying a woman — and more in our collection of strange revelations about the nation
By The Week Staff | September 5, 2012
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S
ome parents will never accept that their kids are gay. Even when they're dead. New York City businessman Frank Mandelbaum set aside a trust fund for his son's child on one condition: That his son, Robert, be "married to the child's mother within six months of the child's birth." The problem? The 47-year-old Robert is already happily married to a spouse who happens to be a man. (Their child was born of a surrogate.) Robert is challenging his father's will as discriminatory.
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