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.
Damn. He just loves to kill little babies. What a jerk.
Mrs. Cheny wrote some book on that too if memory serves.
It is not in the presidents hands, it is in the senate hands.
I believe that you are thinking of the book that she wrote way before marriage that had some lesbian scenes described. The book was wanted by many liberals, but the publishing company told them to go pack sand (not sure if this is absolutely like this, but this is the main gist.)
You are so right about the Senate being the one's to bring it up, but the President also did make this a campaign promise and although he would not initiate it he could at least speak about it and kinda nudge the senate to get to work on the issue. Even if it does not pass at least the President would have tried that is all. We would not think him horrible if it did not pass, but that he tried.
``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.''
That is the liberal argument in a nutshell -people that choose to engage in homosexual activity and play house are special and must be provided children by the state -the liberals 'feel' that it is a right of all that choose to engage in homosexual activity and play house to raise children...
The liberals believe that those that choose to pursue an alternate self indulgent lifestyle not open to procreation -not open to creating life should have a procreative welfare system created that will hand out children to any who wish to play house...
The liberals tend to sweep aside the rights of innocent children and by implication treat children as a commodity or status symbol to be accquired much the same way they treat the unborn as a lump of flesh to be discarded...
Allowing children to be adopted by homosexuals playing house would actually mean doing violence to these children, in the sense that their condition of dependency would be used to place them in an environment that is not conducive to their full human development. Society long ago decided that it is the best interests of the child, as the weaker and more vulnerable party, that are to be the paramount consideration in every case.
Now it seems the judges in black robes want to contravene common law, actual legislation, and society in general and have the interests of homosexuals playing house be the paramount consideration in every case much the same way the judges in black robes created the paramount consideration of privacy in abortion...
bump.
We are simply permitting the extremist libs to remain a dying breed... and therefore become extinct...
Their outdated socialist ideals are not being replenished with any present-day scenes of success -- unless you include prosperous North Korea and powerful Cuba as shining examples.....
Their vast alternative lifestyle lobby remains unable to reproduce by natural means... sooooo... those demographics won't work either....
In due time... they will simply.... not be.
Have a nice election year
If the media would ignore the buffoon, he'd simply disappear. Ah, well, he's a lifer, so I imagine the idiots who vote him into office year after year don't and won't know any better next time either.
Marriage amendment IS coming up for a vote, in Early June last I heard.
Maybe we need a bill banning politician from wasting tax dollars on silly crap like this.
Maybe we need a bill banning politician from wasting tax dollars on silly crap like this.
That would be an excellent bill! Even better if it were to pass. I would love to see a bill that bars courts from all this nonsense that ties up the court from doing the job it is there to do.
Yep, that would be a good idea. I'm always amazed by what comes out of my former home state of Ohio.
Would some GOP elected official please take this bill from this man and start chasing him around the chamber smacking him on the head with it till some sense finally sinks into his noggin ?
Of course thats "tounge in cheek" of course.
Commander Janeway needs to revoke some shoar duty.
You almost made me ruin my keyboard!
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