Republicans Banned from Adopting Children
An Ohio Democrat has introduced new legislation that would ban Republicans from adopting children, a move aimed at embarrassing the GOP over moves to block gay adoptions.
State Sen. Robert Hagan (D-Youngstown) admits his bill is purely "tongue-in-cheek" but says that the message is anything but a joke.
In an email sent to fellow legislators, and obtained by Knight Ridder Newspapers, Hagan says he's looking for co-sponsors to "introduce legislation in the near future that would ban households with one or more Republican voters from adopting children or acting as foster parents."
Earlier this month a bill to ban gays, bisexuals, and transgenderds from adopting was proposed by 10 far-right Republicans. It was introduced in the House this month by state Rep. Ron Hood (R-Ashville)
"We need to see what we are doing," said Hagan, who called Hood's proposed bill blatantly discriminatory and "homophobic."
When Hood introduced his gay adoption ban he said that, "Studies have shown that the optimal setting to raise children in is a traditional setting with a mom and a dad."
Hood claims that children raised in gay households are at "increased risk" of physical and emotional problem.
In Hagan's email to fellow lawmaker's he skewers Hood's assertions, offering his own "credible research" shows that adopted children raised in Republican households are more at risk for developing "emotional problems, social stigmas, inflated egos, and alarming lack of tolerance for others they deem different than themselves and an air of overconfidence to mask their insecurities."
Hagan knows his mock bill has no chance of getting to the floor for a vote let alone passing. And, Hood's bill appears to be headed for a similar fate.
via 365gay.com
Related:
Gay Adoption: The Next Republican Election Strategy
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ByOf you know Hagan wishes his bill would pass. Don't deny it.
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I would have to disagree. It is simply a bill of protest. A bill that he knows will not go anywhere - a bill that would be clearly unconstitutional. At the same time, restricting the parenting rights of gay and lesbian's is also unconstitutional. The bill is merely to connect those dots.
Bryan H.
GayRightsWatch.com
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Gays are heterophobic in a selfish way, trying to force their sickness onto the rest of society in order to corrupt and bankrupt it morally and spiritually.
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Your comment is based on no facts, just a bigoted opinion. If you are going to leave comments - make them worth their while. Thanks!
Bryan H.
GayRightsWatch.com
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Mr. Harding is right. I'm a 17 year old gay male and proud of it. My friends don't care about it like most other hetrosexual. They don't call it a sickness or say that I want to morally and spiritually corrupt America or any nation. I feel that many hetrosexual people like ottomann would think differently if they walked a mile in a gay,lesbian, or transgendered person's shoes.
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Its a normal method of protest, to turn the tables on someone who is practising discrimination. The only problem is that it sometimes just goes over their heads! I hope the point is made clearly here. Thanks for the report!
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The only thing this stuff does is get people caught up in emotional issues and keeps them from keeping the government on track of doing what they're supposed to be doing - largely running the government, budgeting, etc. etc.
They yank our chains because we're so easily yanked, and we happily fall in line.
I don't agree with your politics, your position, but I don't deny your right to have them.
Stop being yanked so easily. Gay rights amendments, gay marriage, flag-burning amendments, hate crime legislation. Seriously, it keeps us from making them focused on running a government that gives states rights, provides basic government needs (FEMA? Would you depend on them for an emergency, shame on you, says Gomer Pyle)
BTW, can blind people fill in that word verification item? Who cares, right?
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It's not politics for us. It's life.
I want to be able to ride in the ambulance or visit my partner if she is hurt or in the hospital.
I want to be able to leave her my belongings and accounts, let her inherit without a will without retaining a $2k lawyer to insure it will happen.
I want us to have equal access to any children we raise. To make medical, financial, and end of life decisions the same way the neighbors can.
Why doesn't anybody get that? Why do people think that it's just "politics" or that we want a pretty wedding?
You get a couple people that care for each other's health and well-being for DECADES sometimes, and some insensitive moron comes by and reduces their need for relationship recognition to something petty.
THINK people!!
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