Posted on 02/27/2006 9:47:19 AM PST by West Coast Conservative
If a Youngstown lawmaker's proposal becomes Ohio law, Republicans would be barred from being adoptive parents.
State Sen. Robert Hagan sent out e-mails to fellow lawmakers late Wednesday night, stating that he intends 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.'' The e-mail ended with a request for co-sponsorship.
On Thursday, the Democrat said he had not yet found a co-sponsor.
Hagan said his ``tongue was planted firmly in cheek'' when he drafted the proposed legislation.
However, Hagan said that the point he is trying to make is nonetheless very serious.
Hagan said his legislation was written in response to a bill introduced in the Ohio House this month by Rep. Ron Hood, R-Ashville, that is aimed at prohibiting gay adoption.
``We need to see what we are doing,'' said Hagan, who called Hood's proposed bill blatantly discriminatory and extremely divisive. Hagan called Hood and the eight other conservative House Republicans who backed the anti-gay adoption bill ``homophobic.''
Hood's bill, which does not have support of House leadership, seeks to ban children from being placed for adoption or foster care in homes where the prospective parent or a roommate is homosexual, bisexual or transgender.
To further lampoon Hood's bill, Hagan wrote in his mock proposal 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.''
However, Hagan admitted that he has no scientific evidence to support the above claims.
Just as ``Hood had no scientific evidence'' to back his assertion that having gay parents was detrimental to children, Hagan said.
``It flies in the face of reason when we need to reform our education system, address health care and environmental issues that we put energy and wasted time (into) legislation (Hood's) like this,'' continued Hagan, who has been in the Ohio Senate nine years. Before the Senate, he served 19 years in the Ohio House.
But his head is obviously planted firmly up somewhere else.
Ehhh . . . I'll give him some credit for creativity.
Is this his point to make that he believes that child rapists and other NAMBLA people ought to adopt chidren?
But if it were to pass my bet would be there would already be 4 votes to uphold it on our Supreme Court!
Isn't that cute. Comparing Republicans to homosexuals. Well, there is one comparison - one can choose to vote Republican or not, and one can choose to engage in same sex acts or refrain from doing so.
What a good way to expose himself for the idiot that he is.
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep deciding what's for dinner.
Is your point that all gays are child rapists and NAMBLA members?
No, of course that is not the point. The point is that some people don't always have the carte blanche right to adopt.
More likely 'tongue firmly planting in butt-cheeks'?
If Hagan meant to make himself look like an idiot, it's "Mission Accomplished"!
I admit that is funny.
http://www.vote-smart.org/bio.php?can_id=BS026334
What an embarrassment to Catholics.
Maybe one of the five kids is gay. I really think that is why President Bush does not bring up gay marriage amendment because of the Chaney family.
check out his stand on abortion.
I think you have something there.
Mrs. Cheny wrote some book on that too if memory serves.
It is not in the presidents hands, it is in the senate hands.
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