Posted on 04/30/2013 5:33:37 PM PDT by markomalley
Former GOP vice presidential nominee Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., now supports the rights of gay Americans to adopt children, though he still believes marriage “is between a man and a woman.”
In a town hall meeting with constituents in Wisconsin on Monday, the House Budget Committee chairman said he has changed his mind on the adoption issue, even though his opinions on other aspects of gay rights have remained unchanged. To date, two Republican senators — Rob Portman of Ohio, who had been in the mix for Mitt Romney’s No. 2 spot, and Mark S. Kirk of Illinois — have come out in support of gay marriage.
“Adoption, I’d vote differently these days. That was I think a vote I took in my first term, 1999 or 2000. I do believe that if there are children who are orphans who do not have a loving person or couple, I think if a person wants to love and raise a child they ought to be able to do that. Period,” Ryan said in a video posted by the liberal website Think Progress. “I would vote that way. I do believe marriage is between a man and a woman, we just respectfully disagree on that issue.”
Ryan’s move to support gay adoption is a particularly interesting one, given his continued national ambitions and Portman’s reversal on gay marriage. Portman announced in March that his college-aged son, Will, is gay and that he could no longer oppose marriage equality.
In the past, Ryan has opposed almost every equality measure, getting a “0″ on the Human Rights Campaign’s most recent Congressional scorecard. He opposed the repeal of “don’t ask, don’t tell,” supported the Defense of Marriage Act and voted against the Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Protection Act, which expanded federal hate crime laws to protect the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community.
In his remarks Monday, Ryan said he has “always supported” civil unions. Though there is no evidence to support that, it’s a clear sign that the politics of the issue have changed and that even the most conservative Republicans need to appear more hospitable to gays and lesbians in order to expand their voting bloc.
“I’ve always supported things like civil unions where you ought to be granted certain legal privileges to be able to have benefits whether it’s estate planning benefits or visitation and things like that,” Ryan said.
But a story published by The Advocate, a gay and lesbian news magazine, when Romney named Ryan to his ticket, noted that Ryan supported a Wisconsin-based ban on gay marriage and civil unions in 2006.
“Reviews of Ryan’s record indicate that he has voted overwhelmingly against LGBT rights. He voted twice for the federal constitutional amendment against same-sex marriage, and supported the ban on same-sex marriage and civil unions approved by Wisconsin voters in 2006. Ryan voted against “don’t ask, don’t tell” repeal and hate crimes legislation, but he voted for the Employment Non-discrimination Act in 2007, when it included protections for sexual orientation but not gender identity,” the report said.
ever been in foster homes or care?
I have and there is not one child who wants homosexuals to take them , see them kissing, touching each other, in bed with each other and acting as if they’re a normal family.
Boys need a man to raise them to be men not that some men can do that looking around at some pansies today, to teach tem to fight, to learn how to build , fix and work.
Boys need a mother to have that shoulder
Girls need a mother and a father, not two daddies who have no idea what that girl will go through , not two mummies and no idea what a guy is about
Ryan ... hmm. PAUL Ryan?
Didn’t he used to be a conservative?
You were digging your grave. Declaring that homosexuals are not perverts (post 53). Please resume.
“The very definition of “homosexual” means one who engages in same sex acts.
Simple.”
you keep saying simple then proving to me it’s not.
So a couple of people of the same sex form a civil union, (which our politicians call marriage) you’re saying that they aren’t necessarily homosexuals then? I’m searching for a definition not arguing here.
“Here you are pushing homosexual adoption, just as you normally promote a trollist, lefty agenda at freerepublic.”
Ansel you always get it wrong.... I’m not pushing homosexual adoption. read my first post.
“The #1 method of recruiting gay males is to molest them as children.”
And the #1 method of recruiting a terrorist is to recruit them as children....
“You were digging your grave. Declaring that homosexuals are not perverts (post 53). Please resume.”
Thank you....
I didn’t declare any such thing. Did you declare than I declared that again?
We can do this all day and all night...
To: St_Thomas_Aquinas
“Adoption by homosexuals is worse than nothing, i.e., foster care or orphanage.”
I’m not convinced..... but then again I don’t subscribe to the fact that all homos are raging perverts.
53 posted on Tuesday, April 30, 2013 9:56:09 PM by mike_9958
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“I have and there is not one child who wants homosexuals to take them , see them kissing, touching each other, in bed with each other and acting as if they’re a normal family.”
And I agree - don’t let this echo chamber of crazies tell you otherwise.
The original argument was on Ryan’s comment which you have read vs what most are doing which is mostly yelling and being sarcastic.
“We can do this all day and all night...”
I’m good but I will have to do dinner.
So you disagree with this part:
....I don’t subscribe to the fact that all homos are raging perverts.
Right ?
AMEN. Anything else is simply Queers using kids for their own warped purposes and it’s wrong.
Homosexuals are perverts. Do you agree with that simple sentence?
I've been in DCS parenting classes for foster parents and seen many a young couple willing to adopt ANY child. DCS and state laws related to dealing with abuse force reunification with abusers. No wonder they also support Queer foster parenting. Liberal Agenda and nothing more.
Your dishonesty fits your liberal politics.
Here you are a dedicated troll promoting homosexual adoption, engaged in many arguments with many freepers, and you deny that you are disagreeing with them.
You are claiming that you too, are against homosexual adoption.
You still here?
I believe he’s trying to figure out how to get out of the corner he painted himself into.
Yes, with an inept attack rather than an answer.
Oops, click on his name.
Need verification. Gunner has the same page ;)
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