Posted on 06/29/2002 10:58:37 AM PDT by I_Love_My_Husband
Rosie Sees Backlash in Adoption Fight Thursday, 27 June 2002 MIAMI -- Rosie O' Donnell told some 200 participants at the two-day Wise Women Weekend retreat in Miami Beach on Sunday that she's experiencing a reactionary backlash in response to her advocacy on behalf of gay adoption.
She told audience members that a medical association recently rescinded an invitation for her to speak at their convention. "They said they were afraid of protesters," O'Donnell said. "I'm not used to being considered controversial."
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The 40-year-old comic has a home in Miami Beach and has adopted three children outside Florida. She said she learned about the ban when she applied to adopt a Florida foster child in her care. "It stunned me to know that Florida, the state where I live, is the only one that does not allow gay adoptions," said O' Donnell, who came out in March.
Florida passed the gay adoption ban in 1977 at a time when entertainer Anita Bryant went on a crusade against a Dade County ordinance protecting gay people from discrimination.
A year ago August, a federal judge in Miami upheld the law in a case brought by two gay men who wanted to adopt foster children already in their care. The decision is being appealed.
O'Donnell offered a terse response to criticism that she is using her celebrity to become a vocal advocate for gay rights. "I have no hom-o-sexual agenda," she said. "I have a child agenda."
-- Editor
Is she kidding? Has she been awake for the past few years?
Thirty years ago, the American Psychiatric Association was afraid of homosexual protestors at their San Francisco convention. So they caved in to their demands and removed homosexuality from the long list of mental disorders. If the psychotics had put this same kind of pressure on them, they would have done the same thing with schizophrenia. Now O'Donnel is on the receiving end. The same cowardice and dishonesty that motivated these phony medical organizations in homosexuals' favor is now coming back to bite them.
Rosie, road apples! I haven't forgotten that you desire my imprisonment as a "criminal" because I exercise my Second Amendment rights. You slandered me, and millions more like my on national television, and if that isn't "controversial, then what, pray tell, is?
the infowarrior
Sounds EXACTLY like Paula Poundstone.
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