Fundies: Proposal to deny adoption rights to gay parents isn't anti-gay.....

[marmar]

:crazy: :wtf:


from the American Family Association's news (insert joke here) service:



Married moms and dads -- what a novel concept
Charlie Butts - OneNewsNow - 8/27/2008 7:00:00 AM



A proposal dealing with adoption and foster homes will be on the ballot in Arkansas in November.

The Family Council Action Committee submitted more than 85,000 valid signatures of registered voters; only 62,000 were needed to get the measure on the November ballot. Jerry Cox heads the organization.

"What we have here is...an initiated act that says that adoptive or foster care children in Arkansas will not be placed in homes where there is a live-in boyfriend or live-in girlfriend," he explains.

Opponents had billed the campaign as anti-homosexual, but not so according to Cox.

"The measure doesn't distinguish between homosexuals or heterosexuals," he points out. "It simply says if you're cohabitating with a sexual partner out of wedlock, then you are not allowed to adopt a child or be a foster parent in the state of Arkansas."

Cox is reasonably confident of victory in November, given the vote on the Protection of Marriage amendment in that state. "For that measure we were able to garner 75 percent of the vote here in the state of Arkansas to say that marriage is the union of a man and a woman," he shares.

The campaign is a response to a 2006 decision by the Arkansas Supreme Court that struck down a state policy banning homosexual men and women from serving as foster parents.


http://www.onenewsnow.com/Politics/Default.aspx?id=229062 (DU links to OneNewsNow get Rick-rolled. If this one does, go to www.afa.net and scroll down to the OneNewsNow area, where you'll find this story)

[philosophie_en_rose]

1. It's not just anti-gay. It's anti-children.

Arkansas must be a magic state, where there are so few foster kids that the state can turn away capable foster and adoptive parents.

Oh wait... it's not.

[sinkingfeeling]

2. Then next we should ban divorced people with children from co-habitating. Better yet, let's

take all children of divorced couples away and place them with married couples, since this fool group believes that children should have married moms and dads. That would be hard to do here in Arkansas where the divorce rate is so high, probably married couples are a distinct minority!

[bamacrat]

3. Thats gay.

[yellowcanine]

4. I am sure all those voting "yes" will be stepping up to foster parent or adopt hard to place kids.

:sarcasm:

It is really hard to love your fundy neighbor when he insists on hating gay people.