Republicans Unfit to Adopt

[chefmike]

When is this nation going to stop persecuting Republicans for their alternative lifestyles? Haven't these people been stigmatized enough? It's time that this once great nation grants them the same rights as all American citizens!

Republicans Unfit to Adopt

Bill Robinson

If Ohio State Sen. Robert Hagan's proposal becomes law, Republicans would be barred from adopting. Wednesday night, Hagan wrote a mock proposal to counter one introduced by State Rep. Ron Hood (R-Ashville) aimed at banning gay adoption.

Hagan said that "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."


For his part, Rep. Hood's legislation, backed by eight other conservative Republican lawmakers, would prefer 22,000 Ohio children to languish in foster care than be adopted or fostered by gay parents.

What is it about Ohio and Florida? There's always trouble brewing. As we know, they've got lots of problems with their voting machines, lots of dead white people who vote and lots of living black people who aren't allowed to. But now they have something else in common: the irrational-- and probably insincere-- fear of gay adoption.

Coincidence? No, rather, as USA Today managed to observe between colorful pie charts, "the second front in the culture wars that began in 2004." These closely divided states barely handed W. the election in 2000 and 2004, and it was in large part due to the gay marriage issue on the ballot, which got the faithful out of their trailers and into the polls. This election year, however, they've got a new tactic-- stop the gays from helping unwanted children.

Actually, Florida's had that covered since 1977, thanks to the Anita Bryant Law. But this week Ohio joins 15 other states by introducing this kind of homophobic, Republican base-baiting measure. In fact, the backers have said that if it fails in the assembly, which it will, they will fight to get it on the fall ballot. Never mind the fact that there are virtually no credible studies that show adverse effects in gay adoption or parenting, Ron Hood wants to save the children of Ashville, Ohio!

And who is Ron Hood? He's a no neck, proudly flashing his 3 month old daughter on his "pro-family" website. He's endorsed by the NRA (they loved his voting against the proposal to have gun owners lock up firearms at home, and his voting to allow concealed weapons anywhere); he's against abortion and the RU-486 pill, anti-union, and he has voted to repeal the minimum wage in Ohio. His background is in construction. Needless to say, he won the Outstanding Young Conservative Award in 2000.

Ron Hood is up for election and he's learned the lesson of Ohio: Wedge Issue. He's playing hateful politics, and he's done nothing in his decade in the state house to help children, except ensure more of them are born to parents who don't want them, with the hope that they will grow up working for less than minimum wage before being shot with a concealed weapon.

Ron Hood would deny homes to children who need them, he would deny children to families who want them. He is the bastard spawn of the last two Rove campaigns. He is emblematic of the future of the shrewdly divisive republican party. He is the face of evil, minus the neck.

And his email is: ronaldhood@usa.net

As a 43 year old lesbian mom in Ohio told the Cincinnati Enquirer, "It's like having someone put a KKK cross in your front yard. In someones opinion, you're not right. The crazy thing is they're the ones that have the hatred in their heart. They're they ones that have the fear in their heart. I'm just raising kids and paying taxes."

According to the latest ABC poll, most Americans believe allowing gays to adopt is a good idea. But what most Americans want never stops the cynical, political forces at work in Ohio during an election year. And, as we've learned the hard way, the rest of us can never afford to overlook what happens in Ohio.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bill-r...p_b_16311.html

[Felicia Katt]

a fit Republican parent

[Felicia Katt]

All the sociological data has shown that kids raised in same sex homes fare as well as kids raised in more traditional ones. I'm not aware of any credible studies showing any detrimental effects. On the other hand, kids who languish in the system, without adoptive or foster parents do suffer real, lasting and objectively measurable damage. The only basis for the policy is an irrational, Bible based contempt for homosexuals. Thats a piss poor basis for personal conduct and and dead wrong one for public policy. But they will probably get it passed like they have in nearly a third of the other states. Does anyone here think this is right or just or fair? and if, as you should, you don't, how do you reconcile this with your support for a political party that does things like this?

FK

[Jdeere562]

He's endorsed by the NRA (they loved his voting against the proposal to have gun owners lock up firearms at home, and his voting to allow concealed weapons anywhere)

He's playing hateful politics, and he's done nothing in his decade in the state house to help children, except ensure more of them are born to parents who don't want them, with the hope that they will grow up working for less than minimum wage before being shot with a concealed weapon.

I am not here to argue politics, just the gun thing. I have a concealed carry permit and go armed. I also took the course to get the license, go through a yearly FBI background check, and also need to get my county Sherriff to OK my permit yearly. People like me that go through all that hassle, are not the problem. I am held to a higher degree of discipline beings I am packing. You won't see me honking my horn, fingering another driver, etc. Legal guns, by honest citizans, make for a polite society. I have no desire to shoot another person, and pray they never put me in that predicument.

I have no problems with locking up guns in the household. Any responsible gun owner does this. I only have one not locked up and at bedside every night. (my kids are grown and I live alone) The only minimun wage earner that will be shot be me, will be the one trying to stick me with a knife. 911 is a great number to call, but ultimately, I am responsible for keeping myself alive. Cops can take 5 or 10 minutes to arrive. (assuming you live close to a city) One is not always awarded that time frame.

I'm all for getting guns out of criminals hands. Lock the bastards up for life. That's a court issue, not the gun's fault. Hell, the punishment is less for making meth these days, than for getting caught drinking 3 legal beers and driving home. I'm not supporting drunk driving either. Just putting things into prospective. I have a neighbor that was in prison 15 years for murder and got out for being a "model inmate". Go figure. Until he is back behind bars, I pack heat every time I walk out that door.

Nothing personal here chefmike, it's just the gun thing. Please reconsider that area. I DO respect most of your other opinions.

Jdeere562

[GroobySteven]

Legal guns, by honest citizans, make for a polite society. I have no desire to shoot another person, and pray they never put me in that predicument.

You live in a society deemed very impolite by most of the Western world. You live in a one which by simply making these guns available, perpetuate the crimes. Other countries run well without guns and have lower crime rates. This is just the same old claptrap that you guys need to extol to justify keeping your guns legal.

I'm all for getting guns out of criminals hands. Lock the bastards up for life. That's a court issue, not the gun's fault.

No it's not the guns fault. It's your fault entirely. Your fault for buying it, for supporting a government which allows you to carry concealed weapons, for supporting the industry and for putting the temptation or risk, of having it stolen and used in a crime.
If you didn't support all this, there would be less guns in society. Don't pass the buck - you're responsible for putting the gun in that criminals hands. He makes the choice whether to pull the trigger but I'd rather he had the choice of swinging a baseball bat, instead of semi-auto handgun.
seanchai

[Jdeere562]

It's your fault entirely.

I can see this could go no where in a hurry. I'm a decent person seanchai, and I'm sure you are too from reading your posts. You can't change my beliefs, and neither can I yours. I'm not here to make enemies. You keep posting pics of hot babes, chefmike has some great cooking tips. We can all get along here. After all, we come to this website for the same reason.

[GroobySteven]

Nothing to do with being a decent person or not, Jdeere, I never called that into question - it's a difference of opinion that's all.
seanchai

[Jdeere562]

Thanks for not turning this into an ugly thing seanchai. People can differ on opinions and still act rationally. You have a great night. I have a little babe coming early and we are doing a BBQ tomorrow. Sleep time now. Be safe my friend.

[Hugh Jarrod]

Nothing to do with being a decent person or not, Jdeere, I never called that into question - it's a difference of opinion that's all.
seanchai

This one I have a difference with you Seanchai, I have guns (nothing like the pic) and I don't think banning them helps anything.

[GroobySteven]

Look at gun crime statistics in Europe and look at them in the USA.

Where does not banning them, help?

You want guns because you like guns - boys and toys, I'd be the first culprit on that one (see above photos) but as a society, it's a screw up. The US gun crime is sick and having access to those guns is a main part of that sickness.
seanchai