Posted on 04/22/2005 5:07:49 AM PDT by sinkspur
After House passes measure, couple worry they'll lose four kids
Cheryl Crumley and Donna Sickles take their kids to Chuck E. Cheese's. They constantly wipe spit-up off their clothes and change poopy diapers. They go to church on Sundays.
"We're a normal family," Ms. Crumley said.
She and Ms. Sickles are terrified of losing their four foster children because the Texas House on Tuesday approved an amendment banning gays, lesbians and bisexuals from serving as foster parents. The Carrollton couple accelerated plans to adopt the 6-month-old girl in their care because of the decision.
"I don't understand what is so wrong about what we're doing," Ms. Crumley said Wednesday evening as she cradled the baby girl, who was born to a drug addict and went through withdrawal for weeks after birth. "It's mind-boggling."
Ms. Crumley and Ms. Sickles said they have provided a safe, loving home to about 25 foster children over the last two years, for stays that ranged from one week to 11 months.
All of the children suffered abuse and neglect in their own homes, often because of parental drug addictions. One baby needed skin grafts after being scalded in a bathtub. Some had gone hungry so often they hoarded food in their bedrooms. Others slept on the floor at first because that's what they were used to. The children often have developmental delays because of the abuse.
Ms. Crumley and Ms. Sickles now care for the 6-month-old girl, a 4-month-old boy, a 5-year-old girl and an 8-year-old boy, whose names are not being published to protect their privacy.
"We would be devastated if we couldn't do this," Ms. Crumley said.
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A couple at our church adopted a child a year or two ago. Of the 7 couples adopting kids that week, 4 couples were same sex. This is in Cedar Rapids Iowa.
Then you can possibly teach the children what is so wrong with it......can you???
No you are not.
You are a mentally disturbed sexual pervert.
Is it better for children that nobody wants to grow up in group homes, or be fostered by a gay couple?
""We would be devastated if we couldn't do this," Ms. Crumley said."
Then give up your perverted lifestyle. If your priorities are to live in perverted sexual behavior, then don't complain.
Their priorities seem to be to give children that nobody wants a home.
Wrong lifestyle ping....
The Texas Senate has this bill in the target zone and intend to kill it, as reported on the news this AM.
You might think that there's nothing wrong, that you're teaching those kids open-mindedness and tolerance, but kids can sense when something is amiss from a mile off. They KNOW, even if they can't vocalize it or put words to their gut instincts, that this "family" is not normal.
BTW, I wonder what kind of church this couple attends? Unitarian Universalist, perhaps?
I posted an essay on my blog regarding cannabalism here in Southeast Asia on the island of Borneo.
Cannabals don't see or understand how what they are doing is wrong either.
The sad thing is that this womyn knows very well what she is doing is wrong. She trys desperately however (as many of these sex perverts do) to seek solice in the fact that secular law has allowed their to practice their selfish hedonistic debauchery for so long, but the void always remains unfilled.
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Is it better for children that nobody wants to grow up in group homes, or be fostered by a gay couple?
The answer is no.
And why a gay couple? Why not a couple of satanists or a couple of cannibals?
You raise a valid issue that no one wants to address.
Would it be okay to give the children to child molestors? Drug users/dealers? Just give them to anyone who will take them so taxpayers don't have to support them? How about teaching responsibility to people who have these children and then dump them? Florida doesn't allow homosexuals to adopt children and I think it's a very wise thing. Do we want to promote the best interests of children or the so-called "rights" of homosexual perverts?
Why would putting children in group homes with other damaged children in their best interests vs. being parented in a family, where they can receive concentrated care and attention. Face it, few heterosexual, married couples want older children, particularly ones with "issues".
Doesn't their desire to adopt or be foster homes, prove their opponents right? Isn't marriage really about procreation and family?
I think that every child deserves a family.
Most of these childrens heterosexual parents abused, neglected and mistreated them. Many of them were born drug addicted.
These women are performing a much needed public service while at the same time giving these kids the family that they are lacking.
It is easy to say that they should not be allowed to foster. Then these kids would probably be sitting in some children's home somewhere waiting for the adoption that may never come. Sad.
Every member of the Texas legislature who votes in favor of this bill should at least have the guts to put their names on a list to foster a child with behavioral problems.
Otherwise, the bill is just grandstanding.
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