Dear Abby: We’re exactly who we seem, so why do the fundamentalists want our kids over?

A lesbian couple has written to the advice columnist Dear Abby seeking guidance on how to handle their neighbors, who are a fundamentalist family. The couple describes the neighbors as friendly and well-behaved, but notes that the husband holds a leadership position in a church that characterizes homosexuality as a sin and transgender identity as a mental illness. The conflict arises from the neighbors' desire to have the couple’s children visit their home.

The inquiry highlights the tension between maintaining neighborly relations and protecting children from ideologies that the parents perceive as hostile to their family structure. The situation centers on the parents' discomfort with allowing their children to spend time with individuals whose religious leadership promotes views that directly contradict the parents' identity.