A Forbidden Rumspringa by Keira Andrews

Author:Keira Andrews [Andrews, Keira]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780993859823
Publisher: KA Books
Published: 2014-09-02T12:00:00+00:00

“Do you think there are other Amish who are…” Isaac paused, trying to think of how to put it. Just thinking the word sodomites made him queasy.

David glanced up from the table leg he was finishing. “Gay?”

Frowning, Isaac gave the nail he was driving into a plank another whack with a hammer. “What do you mean?”

“It’s what the English call it.”

Isaac took off his gloves for a moment, blowing on his hands and rubbing them together. December had slinked in wet and gray, with a cold that burrowed deeply in the drafty barn. “Why?”

“I don’t know.” David smiled. “When I started going to the movies last year, one of the first ones I saw was about a bunch of couples who were having babies. They all took a class together and became friends. There were two men, and that’s what they called it.”

Gay. Isaac rolled the word around in his mind. “Sounds kind of nice.”

David’s eyes lit up, and he came around the worktable to Isaac’s side. “That’s the great thing—it wasn’t an insult. It wasn’t negative. Everyone else in the movie was friends with them, and no one cared that they were together. No one thought it was bad.”

“Is that what it’s like in the world?” Isaac’s stomach somersaulted. Was it possible?

“In some places. No one in the movie minded. They acted like it was just…normal.”

“But wait, you said they were all having babies.”

“The gay couple had what they call a surrogate. English women who will have a baby for someone else.”

Isaac’s mind spun. “But…she just gave them the baby?”

“Uh-huh. They paid her. English people do it all the time, I guess. It wasn’t out of the ordinary to anyone in the movie.”

“It doesn’t seem right to me.” Isaac picked up a nail from the table and rolled it between his fingers. “What do you think?”

“I don’t know. In the movie, the woman giving up her baby said it made her happy to help a new family begin. At the end, the men were so happy too. They never thought they could be fathers.”

Isaac had assumed his entire life that he’d be one, even though he’d never given it much thought at all. While he could never imagine a future with Mary or another wife, for a moment his mind was filled with pictures of him and David in ten years, children around them, their playful shrieks like music in the air. “If we were English, we could…”

“What?” David asked, standing up straighter.

“Nothing.” Isaac rubbed his face, banishing the ridiculous thought. “But if being…” He tried out the word. “If being gay is a sin, then God wouldn’t want us raising children.”

“No, I suppose not.” David leaned back against the table. “Although sometimes I wonder about it all.” He picked up one of his discarded gloves and fiddled with it. “Seems to me that what constitutes sin changes a lot depending on who you’re talking to. Maybe it’s all just words on a page. The Ordnung changes from town to town, after all.

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