Posted on 04/09/2015 7:01:38 AM PDT by Iron Munro
Florida’s nearly 40-year-old ban on gay adoption - which hasn’t been enforced for the past five years - is about to be tossed out by the state’s Republican-controlled Legislature.
But it’s not going without a fierce debate, including whether the state should adopt a separate law that would let private agencies use religious or moral grounds to turn away gay couples seeking to adopt children.
Some Republicans say this “conscience” law is needed to ensure that faith-based organizations handling adoptions will keep offering their services, but other legislators have compared the measure to Indiana’s religious objections law and said it would encourage discrimination against gay couples.
Both the House and Senate spent hours on Wednesday debating the state’s existing ban - and what will happen if it is permanently removed from law.
Sen. Don Gaetz, R-Niceville, defended the decision to jettison the gay adoption ban and called it a relic of another time that is now meaningless since an appeals court declared the law unconstitutional in 2010.
“We don’t need to turn the social clock in this state back to 1977,” said Gaetz, who is sponsoring the adoption bill.
Sen. Kelli Stargel, R-Lakeland, tried unsuccessfully to persuade other senators to keep the ban on the books. Stargel argued that getting rid of the ban could lead faith-based organizations to leave the state.
“I’m not going to let something leave this chamber and go to the governor that I think is the wrong policy for the state of Florida,” said Stargel.
The Florida Senate on Wednesday gave tentative approval to the bill (HB 7013) that eliminates the ban.
But after an outcry from conservative groups over the demise of the ban, House Republicans have agreed to push forward a separate bill that would “shield” religious organizations
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
The 11th DCA upheld Florida’s ban on homosexual adoption of children. Charlie Crist weaseled the issue by not enforcing the law.
Rosie O’Donnell’s adoptions aren’t working out too well, at least her daughter has gone looking for her birth parents- both of them
But, it’s a text from a long, long time ago that has absolutely no meaning now. The Bible is old and out-dated now. All of us that believe in it are uneducated dolts.
There is nothing in ancient history more documented than the Bible. If they don’t know and understand those books, they’re not so intellectual. They certainly lack wisdom..
They want to force our acceptance of their perversion on us but 1000s and 1000s and 1000s of years of civilization tell us that marriage is only between a man and woman.
I wasn't aware Flake sold out too. Sadly it doesn't surprise me though. Is he still getting "95% conservative" ratings from the ACU and other groups?
“Can a single man adopt a kid?”
http://www.adoptionhelp.org/qa/can-single-men-adopt
According to this they can, at least in some states. Also says they rarely apply and many adoption services don’t do it even in the states where it is legal. Don’t know if it is legit or not. Wish they said what states have it and for how long.
FReegards
So again, the GOPe is doing the Democrats job for them
Forget that. Children now are just products to be manufactured in test tubes and distributed to fashionable people who use them as accessories. It would be INSANE to place a child for adoption today without being able to select, in advance, the home in which the child will be raised.
Queers adopting children is the worst kind of sex offense. Allowing this is a crime against children, nature, and humanity. This is not the land of the sodomites. It is modern civilization.
I didn’t know about Jeff Flake; do you have a link?
That other Arizona Mormon Republican, Congressman Salmon, has a homosexual son, but he announced that he has *not* changed his position on marriage.
I remembered the Flake story, apparently, incorrectly. He still is wrong:
Oops, meant to ping you two as well.
see post 50 on this thread. I amend my previous statement.
We are constantly reminded that homosexuals and other sexual perverts are not just the scurvy scum-wads who hang out by the little boys and girls public toilets.
Many of them are powerful members of the government at different levels.
Others are powerful, wealthy and influential financiers, industrialists, educators, etc., who provide the big money to powerful politicians.
and many are public school teachers
It sounds like Flake’s son is actually on the level.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/ariz-sen-aplogizes-teen-son-online-slurs-article-1.1371590
Well, expect for the racism part. But he’s “out to own some f***ots”.
Flake is just...a Flake.
I wouldn’t have guessed.
No kidding.
I thought “he looks like a p**** hound” to be quite honest.
And many more infiltrate every organization filled with children to seek their obsession. NAMBLA is their international organization devoted to the rape of young boys.
Being wealthy and influential gives no one license to spread disease and molest children. We think of the Michael Jacksons, the Sanduskys, the Harvey Milks and others caught raping little boys. Hollywood is filled with them.
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