Posted on 04/28/2010 6:20:06 AM PDT by Ebenezer
Lengthy and passionate testimony in the Senate Judiciary A Committee today ended with a 3-1 party line rejection of a measure that would have expanded gay adoption in Louisiana.
Senate Bill 129, which ended up as a combination of two measures by Sens. Ed Murray and J.P. Morrell, would have allowed unmarried couples to jointly adopt and allow an existing parent to petition a court to add a second adult as a legal parent. The bill would have applied regardless of the adoptive parents' sexual orientation, but the debate centered on the rights of gay parents and their children.
Louisiana law restricts adoption to married couples or single individuals, meaning gay couples or unmarried heterosexual couples can adopt but must choose which adult has parental rights.
The debate pitted the Forum for Equality, a gay rights advocacy group, the American Civil Liberties Union and other adoptive parents, including New Orleans City Council President Arnie Fielkow, against a long list of primarily religious interests: the Louisiana Family Forum, the Conference of Catholic Bishops and representatives of Louisiana Southern Baptists.
Gov. Bobby Jindal's office also registered the governor's opposition to the bill, though no one from the administration testified.
Kelly Bryson of New Orleans asked lawmakers to approve the bill so that she and her partner, Erika Knott, can "complete our family." Bryson and Knott gained custody of a Louisiana foster child, William, before Hurricane Katrina. Knott adopted the boy in Louisiana. With the couple living in Maryland immediately after the storm, Bryson successfully petitioned for a second parent adoption. Knott has since adopted, again in Louisiana, William's biological brother Jeremy.
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good news...........sometimes it’s nice to be a louisiana resident.
“...of New Orleans...”
But of course. New Orleans is a fun, interesting city (less so every year alas) but utterly unfit for children.
Fielko and his wife adopted from a country than explicitly bans homosexual adoptions- as do Russia and China, and no doubt Madonna’s plantation known as Malawi
did they lie? So many adopters did that China shut down single parent US adoptions
Please explain. What makes New Orleans "unfit for children" but fit for adults, as opposed to other cities? ?
Pre flood there were 35,000 known felon residents out of a population base of 500,000.
Public school officials advised us NOT to put our kid in their own public school system. Private schools do not have to take special needs (for any reason) children and do not. In or out, the children learn this.
NOLA often leads the US in per capita homicides. While most are gangbangers killing one another, many are bystanders or people actually within their non-bullet proof homes.
The very deliberate and dedicated promotion of intoxication and sexual abandon.
NOLA has all of the drawbacks of other large cities, but glories in most of them.
I could go on, but these are sufficient.
Why fit for adults but not children? Adults may assume the risks, and have better survival skills usually. Children have the situation thrust upon them.
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