I do not understand the logic
I just don't get the whole not letting gay people adopt children or become foster parents thing. It just isn't logical. There are so many kids out there in North America who need homes where people will love them. These right winged religious zealots that are behind this are the same ones who are against abortion. The pro-lifer slogan is "Every Child is Wanted". Why then do they deny children the parents who want them? It's ludicrous!
I REFUSE to discuss up the 'gay man=pedophile' or 'gay parents "turns" child gay' crap.
It isn't even worth debating...I mean, these zeolots can't still be THAT stupid can they?
So where is the logic behind the rights refusal? Or is there any?
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Monday, July 25, 2005 :: infoZine Staff :: page views
ACLU Asks Missouri Judge to Let Lesbian Become Foster Parent
The American Civil Liberties Union filed court papers Thursday on behalf of a woman deemed "exceptionally" qualified to become a foster mother whose application was denied because she is a lesbian. The ACLU is asking the court to overturn an earlier administrative ruling upholding the denial.
Kansas City, Mo. - infoZine - "To categorically deny gay people the chance to be foster parents accomplishes nothing beyond making it harder to place the nearly 2,000 foster children in need of permanent homes in Missouri," said Julie Brueggemann, Executive Director of PROMO, Missouri's statewide lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights organization. "Every mainstream child advocacy and mental health organization is opposed to foster care policies that ban lesbians and gay men, because such bans serve only to hurt children who need homes."
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i am sick to death of people
who think it is their job to define what love is, and i'm not buying it. (grrr!)
I say AMEN to both yours and Annie's comments. I am a straight woman with gay friends and feel very strongly about thier rights being equal to my own. It isn't our job, right or place to judge one and other. I unfortunately grew up in a very dysfunctional home. If given the choice I would pick two loving and stable parents over the crap I did get dealt with! Wouldn't matter to me if they were of the same sex or not!