No, but someone's opinion can still be awful and it can still rightly be criticized. If you don't want that criticism or you want to articulate a more nuanced argument then maybe he should reconsider Twitter as his platform for expressing this specific point.
People are having strong responses to his phrasing because his phrasing because his phrasing is poor and irresponsible and muddies the idea he's trying to get across and tbh he really just shouldn't even be bringing same-sex parenting into it at all, and saying "yeah sure same-sex parents are great" doesn't do much to cushion what he seems to be repeatedly following up with which is "but a child is still better off with a mommy and daddy". It's ignorant and shows a real lack of imagination on Terry's part on this issue.
I think the work he's done with the #metoo movement has been incredible and brave (and for the record, I think that tweet from the woman claiming he co-opted the movement for his own personal gain is absolutely cruel and uncalled for), but on this issue I think he needs to rethink his approach if his goal is to push men to be better fathers. He can make that point without all this other....stuff that he's bringing to the discussion. He needs to take a step back and do some serious self-reflection about where he might be pulling some of this rhetoric from and how it might be rooted in the same toxic masculinity he often aims to take a stance against.
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