Gays Adopt Children to Molest Them .... Rep. Debra Maggart, R-TN

[RedEarth]

Rep. Debra Maggart, R-Hendersonville, said she still believes homosexual couples should not be allowed to adopt children. In fact, in addition to e-mail correspondence with a master’s student at Vanderbilt publicized recently, in which she said as much, she has also said homosexual couples may molest the children they adopt.


"We also have seen evidence that homosexual couples prey on young males and have, in some instances, adopted them in order to have unfretted access to subject them to a life of molestation and sexual abuse," she said.

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[babylonsister]

1. She is gross. nt

[proud patriot]

2. What a hateful ugly person to say or think such a thing

disgusting

[aquart]

3. Isn't it democratic

the way we refuse to make intelligence a requirement for office.

Any idiot with money can get elected.

[rodeodance]

4. I read that gay adoption was the wedge issue for '06 (like gay marriage

was in the last election)

[laheina]

62. It seems like they've been focusing on illegal immigration

but they still need to create some non-issue to get the fundies to vote.

Where would they be if the had to focus on the issues and not use their lame-ass scare tactics?

[Alpharetta]

5. Hetero molestations never happen?

Jeez. What a piece of work this woman is.

[Fridays Child]

6. Debra Maggot, did you say?

She's a fucking soulless pig. :puke:

[Greeby]

11. My thoughts exactly

:grr:

[im10ashus]

7. SHE better never get two feet from me.

Because I will tell give her an earful. Pedophilia and homosexuality are not the same thing. I've no more sexual desire for a child than I do for a woman. No offense to all the lovely women out there. This sort of thinking is the type that further sullies my civil rights. :mad:

[proud2BlibKansan]

17. I have always heard that pedophiles are more likely to be

heterosexual. The majority of the pedophiles I have been aware of (unfortunately I have taught too many kids who have been molested) have been men who molested little girls.

[im10ashus]

19. I am not sure of the statistics.

But statements like hers are so transparently homophobic. It pisses me off. I know someone very close to me and he was molested. By a man. In the church. On the altar. So religion and its fundamental abuse of gay men and women has not protected anyone. I am gay and would rather cut off my arm than harm a child. I just get sick of this spewing forth of such vitriol without anyone standing up and slapping the shit out of them. :mad:


:rant:

[LostinVA]

41. Then huge majority are white and male, and identify as heterosexuals

[gollygee]

45. Who they molest isn't a good indicator of their sexuality

Straight men will molest boys. It isn't about body parts or they wouldn't be interested in children in the first place. Also, since most molestors were molested as children, they are often re-enacting what was done to them. Since they were boys when they were abused, abusing boys fits into the sickness regardless of what gender they prefer in adults.

[Warpy]

8. The truly sad thing is that the pig believes what she's spewing

because her preacher told her so.

It's time for mainstream ministers to stand up against this stuff. Christ did NOT preach hate. Christ did not preach lies.

It's time for Christians to start cleaning their own house.

[laheina]

61. Right, and it is only to bolster their twisted religious ideas,

especially that god didn't create gays as they are, that they equate homosexuality with pedophilia. THEY ARE NOT THE SAME. Gays do not prey on children in order to recruit.

And beside the sheer illness which this person's comments fill me with--they make me sad. Sad because she is spewing hatred on a minority which doesn't deserve it, for no other reason than because she can. And even more, sad because the ultimate victims of her comments are children.

Many children could be adopted by loving couples in stable family environments and removed from the foster system but won't be because of hatred. The hatred of this "christian" person and those like her, who are in search of a wedge issue.

This turns my stomach.

[MazeRat7]

9. Yeah..yeah... and I adopt kittens to make taco's. --gez she is a twit.

[philosophie_en_rose]

10. Newsflash: Heterosexuals could do the same thing.

:eyes:

What a vile and stupid woman.

[Skittles]

29. there are heterosexuals, homosexuals, and then there are pedophiles

this woman is very confused and absolutely disgusting

[philosophie_en_rose]

50. You're right. Pedophiles are a class of their own.

:puke:

That woman's assertions are more about her filthy imagination that anyone else.

[libnnc]

12. self-delete

replied to wrong post

[proud2BlibKansan]

13. Oh good grief

Sometimes I wonder what century we are living in.

[Turbineguy]

14. My sympathies to her

constituents. Must has been a Diebold vote count that got her in.

[waiting for hope]

15. Where does this ignorance come from????

I'm curious, does this POS actually believe what she's saying or is she pandering up to the stupid people out there that think that Pedophilia and Homosexuality are the same thing?

[kestrel91316]

16. No, Debra, they adopt them to CONVERT them..........

I'd call this woman a prick, but she's the wrong gender.

[Golden Raisin]

18. I'll bet she's a good "christian" who goes to church

every Sunday praying to & praising the blonde, blue-eyed, English-speaking Jesus who came down to earth specifically to fight abortion, gay marriage, and now gay adoption.

I wish Jesus WOULD come back and take a good long, hard look at swine like this Maggart creature, who pervert, mangle & betray everything he taught and stood for, and then blast her sorry ass to a very deep & fiery pit of everlasting hellfire. But let me tell you how I really feel...

[Kurovski]

20. She's a fucking shit-brained moron.

ANYONE can adopt children and molest them. That's one of the reasons why you have to go through a PROCESS before adopting someone, instead of BUYING THEM at Wal-Mart.

What a prize! What an ass-backwards, turd-chomping queer-bomb she be.

[GoldenOldie]

23. Just when you think the dumb can't get any dumber!

You just have to know what her constituents are like.

At one time the bigots hid their true feelings behind closed minds. Georgie and his merry band of thugs gave them freedom to voice their full blown bigotry and hate of their fellow man.

Hey I'm old and I well remember the elders distain for catholics, jews, black. If they were catholics, they hated the protestants and the jews. If they were protestants, they hated the catholics and the jews. And sometimes one protestant group hated a different protestant group. Nobody ever heard of Muslims, Budhists, or Sikhs then. Nobody even knew or if they did dared to talk about homosexuals.

So those raised as bigots have been given freedom to declare their ignorance and bigotry by hating all those that do not believe as they do nor as they pray or love.

Somethings never change......the world will always have bigoted haters.

[Kurovski]

39. I can't really tell whether or not she's

filled with hate on the issue. She most likely just believes it's damaging to children. Certainly regular social harassment is damaging to a child, but because segments of society may have a bug up its ass on the matter, it's no reason to deny healthy, adjusted individuals the right to adopt.

She probably is more concerned than anything else. I see it as ignorance. I don't know what other elements come into play in her decisions.

If a photo can tell anything, the one I see of her gives the appearance of someone who might actually be someone you'd say was "a nice person" on first meeting.

But she sure pissed me off! :D So I went off and vented like an idiot myself!

If there are any closeted gay folks whom she loves and/or respects in her life, now would be the time for them to come clean with her. It might help, who knows?

[nickinSTL]

21. Complete moron

The vast majority of abusers are heterosexual.

If I remember correctly, even most men who abuse boys are "heterosexual".

It isn't about sex. It's about power, domination. It isn't a homosexual (or heterosexual) thing.

[complain jane]

22. Yeah, Maggot, you never hear about straight men molesting step kids

or adopted kids.

</sarcasm>

Fucking idiot.

[ChristianLibrul]

24. Baptists have kids to eat during natural disasters

We've seen evidence that they share recipes for kids according to age.

[laheina]

63. LOL!

Welcome to DU ChristianLibrul :hi:

Maybe we should get that one going as a counter-meme. ;)

[Dead_Parrot]

25. Christ, that's fucked up.

She needs help.

[Catherine Vincent]

26. That was such an ignorant statement.

:mad:

[Katherine Brengle]

27. What a horrible person...

I don't even know what to say to that...

[burythehatchet]

28. Note the cross hanging around her filthy neck

One of god's special children, to be sure.

[libnnc]

30. Is it wrong for me to say...

that I just want to kick her worthless fucking, Talbot's suit-wearing, skinny, phony bible humping ass?

is that wrong to post?

[6000eliot]

31. Fucking hateful witch!

[upi402]

32. That woman needs to check a fact! n/t

[eppur_se_muova]

33. ummm...did she really say "unfretted"? or was that the reporter?

I know, it's nitpicking, but ignorance will out in many ways...maybe this should be suspect on that basis.

[genieroze]

34. What a dumb thing to say

What the heck does molestation have to do with homosexuality? Most molesters aren't gay, they are sick perverts who get their jollies at hurting kids for their own sick pleasure. I'm not saying they there are no gay molesters but it has nothing to do with their sexual preference. This womans statement is bass ackwards.

[baby_mouse]

35. Amazing!

How did she arrive it this conclusion? Oh yes, she just made it up.

[Bluebear]

36. Disgusting woman. Total piece of shit.

Sorry, this is VILE, Ms. Maggot.

[Heidi]

37. Another ignorant person in a position of apower.

Far more common than the scenario this nutjob Republican lays out is the possibility of a child being molested by his/her natural relatives, neighbors and acquaintances in whose care our sh!tty economy forces us to leave our kids. :grr:

[NMMNG]

38. What evidence?

This evidence? :shrug:


95% of known Pedophiles are heterosexual
http://www.crisisconnectioninc.org/sexualassault/pedophilia_and_child_sexual_mole.htm

Some typologies of child molesters break the fixation-regression distinction into multiple categories, and some include additional categories as well (e.g., Knight, 1989). For the present discussion, the important point is that many child molesters cannot be meaningfully described as homosexuals, heterosexuals, or bisexuals because they are not really capable of a relationship with an adult man or woman. Instead of gender, their sexual attractions are based primarily on age. These individuals – who are often characterized as fixated – are attracted to children, not to men or women.

Using the fixated-regressed distinction, Groth and Birnbaum (1978) studied 175 adult males who were convicted in Massachusetts of sexual assault against a child. None of the men had an exclusively homosexual adult sexual orientation. 83 (47%) were classified as "fixated;" 70 others (40%) were classified as regressed adult heterosexuals; the remaining 22 (13%) were classified as regressed adult bisexuals. Of the last group, Groth and Birnbaum observed that "in their adult relationships they engaged in sex on occasion with men as well as with women. However, in no case did this attraction to men exceed their preference for women....There were no men who were primarily sexually attracted to other adult males..." (p.180).
http://psychology.ucdavis.edu/rainbow/html/facts_molestation.html

Approximately 95% of child molesters are heterosexual men. A molester who abuses boys is not usually gay--many will abuse children of either gender.
http://www.twu.edu/O-SL/counseling/SelfHelp042.html

FACT: By far, the majority of child molesters are heterosexual men. The National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect in the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, found that over 90% of all child abuse is committed by straight men on minor females.
http://home.insight.rr.com/mhiser/html/basics.html

There is an 11:1 ratio of heterosexual pedophiles to homosexual ones.
http://faculty.ncwc.edu/TOConnor/428/428lect19.htm

[mmonk]

43. Send those stats

to her office.

[misternormal]

48. I agree... put up the evidence, or shut the hell up...

Typical Fundie, Faux News bullshit... "Evidence shows"... "People say"...

I think that there should be a law, especially for these idiot political types, that forbid the use of the phrase, "Evidence shows" without providing the evidence.

[Donald Ian Rankin]

56. I'm slightly supsicious of those.

The one about 90% of child abuse victims being female sounds very implausible to me, and either the claims that 95% of child molesters are heterosexual men or the studfy by Groth and Birnbaum must be flawed (the 95% figure strikes me as highly suspect - I'm afraid I suspect the real number is lower than that).

Also, that's not the relevant statistic. At present, you'll get a higher than representative ratio of reported same-sex abuse cases because in general men are more trusted to look after boys than girls, so there are more opportunities, and while I believe the vast majority of abuse takes place in the family, my understanding is that it tends not to get reported as much as abuse by strangers, and so won't show up in the statistics so much.

The relevant statistic is "is a child placed for adoption with a homosexual couple more or less likely to be abused by them than one placed with a heterosexual couple?" Does anyone have any statistics on that from countries where homosexuals are allowed to adopt?

[mmonk]

40. And her evidence is?

[Puglover]

42. The saddest thing about this is

these sub-humans have always been around and will always be around. It's a never ending struggle. On one hand nothing would satisfy me more then burying my fist in her ugly face. But, as a proud liberal I gotta stay on the higher ground. <sigh> Sometimes it is a bitch through.

[RedEarth]

44. More information on the lovely Ms. Maggart... "Photo ID for voting"

A little more information about Ms. DEBRA YOUNG MAGGART

Biographical Information
Born October 11, 1960, Nashville
Single, one child
Episcopal
Small Business Owner / Flooring
Goodpasture Christian School Graduate
B.A. Western Kentucky University, Advertising
Public Office
House member of the 104 General Assembly
Member, House Children and Family Affairs Committee
Member, House Health and Human Resources Committee
Member, House Domestic Relations Subcommittee
Member, House Public Health and Family Assistance Subcommittee
Community Involvement
Hendersonville Rotary Club, Fundraising Chair
Hendersonville Chamber of Commerce, Vice Chair
Phi Mu Fraternity for Women
Tennessee Right to Life, Sumner County Chapter
Tennessee Anglican Council
Sumner County Republican Women's Club
St. Joseph of Arimathea Episcopal Church - Vestry Member
Dandridge Trust Board Member
national Federation of Independent Business
Middle Tennessee Home Builders
Gallatin Chamber of Commerce
Honors and Awards
Sumner County Republican Party Chairman's Award 2000 and 2002
Western Kentucky University Outstanding Greek Adviser



and notice this........ sure enough, sounds like a wonderful lady....


Lawmaker calls for photo IDs at polls

Rights groups have fought such moves

By TRENT SEIBERT
Staff Writer


Tennessee voters would have to show photo identification at the polls under legislation proposed yesterday by a Midstate lawmaker.

"The right to vote in this country is basic to our freedom and we should do everything we can to protect the integrity of the ballot box," said Rep. Debra Maggart, R-Hendersonville

Debate on the issue likely will be heated. The NAACP and other civil rights groups have traditionally opposed plans such as this one, saying that they discriminate against those who may not have photo Ids, including some voters of color, the elderly, the poor and the disabled.

http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060318/NEWS0201/603180333/1001

[misternormal]

49. We have to have photo ID where I vote...

[bullwinkle428]

51. A SINGLE MOTHER??? I guess the "queers attack on the sanctity

of marriage" was responsible for the disintegration of hers... :sarcasm:

[maveric]

64. "Goodpasture Christian School"?

That explains a lot.

[iamthebandfanman]

46. oh lordy

ah gees.
how are people so ignorant ?
sheesh.

as if straight couples couldnt do the same.

i suppose we should just get rid of adoption all together , and since im guessing shes anti-abortion all the unwanted babies can go live in a field she provides where they can run free in the wild.

[DemonGoddess]

47. what a SICK

bitch :grr:

[FormerRepublican]

52. This opinion is so stupid that words fail me.

I guess she thinks NO ONE should be able to adopt since most molestation is heterosexual. Girls are victims far more than boys are, and perps are usually (but not always) male.

From a few posts I've read on DU, it would seem that Republicans offend in high numbers... Perhaps there's something to that Dem who introduced a bill that would deny Republicans the right to adopt kids.

Lord, I wish these people would grow a brain.

[Beelzebud]

53. So with her line of thinking a hetrosexual man should not be trusted with

a young girl? Or vice-versa a hetrosexual woman should not be around young boys?

What a piece of shit, this woman is...

[savemefromdumbya]

54. does she think this will give her votes?

why else would someone accuse a gay couple of potential molestation.

[lectrobyte]

55. Hendersonville. That explains a lot right there.

Tennessee, you were my home, lots of nice people there, but the God-feerin' Repubs really ruint it for the rest of us. For a glimpse of the sickness under all the facades, this lovely gem from one of the towns I spent a few years in one summer, Blountville (pronounced BLUNTvol)

http://www.reformation.com/CSA/JoeCombs1.htm

[Rocknrule]

57. IMHO, Republicans shouldn't be allowed to adopt

since they teach their kids nothing but HATE HATE HATE

[baby_mouse]

58. uhhhh...

I... think that's probably wrong.

[Kurovski]

59. Kick(nt)

[Faygo Kid]

60. Look what happened to Cap Weinberger after meeting with her

He's dead. So is her political future.

[KingFlorez]

65. That's terrible

And she should have watched when Nancy Grace had a girl on that had be adopted by a pedophile so he could molest her. There are bad people all over the place that harm children and they come from all lifestyles.

[Barking Spider]

66. Watch this film!!! Horrifying '50s/'60s propganda!

You MUST watch this film.

Called "Boys Beware" from 1961. Your jaw will drop just over 1/3 of the way through.
Its now 2006 and RW assholes are STILL buying into this ignorant load of shit!!

Link (don't try it with dial up):
http://www.archive.org/stream/boys_beware/boys_beware_256kb.mp4

If that link doesn't work, go here and try another option:
http://www.archive.org/details/boys_beware

[dsc]

67. Unbelievable

I lost sound with a few minutes left but I got the jist to say the least.

[Warren DeMontague]

68. Lady, your proctologist is on the phone...

He's found your head.