'He has no mama now'

Amazingly selfish of queers to adopt.

And the Left wonders why the Muslim worls hates the West.

Hey, but you gotta applaud KBHC for taking a stand!!

Gotta applaud this too:

Hundreds rally for '10 Commandments judge' Gay rights organizations in Alabama and Washington, including Equality Begins at Home of Central Alabama, are calling for Moore's resignation, accusing him of using "right-wing rhetoric and far right religious dogma to justify homophobia and execution of homosexuals."

The effort is in response to the Alabama high court's unanimous decision to reject a lesbian mother's child custody petition. Moore wrote a separate concurring opinion, repudiating homosexuality on religious grounds, calling it "abhorrent, immoral, detestable, a crime against nature, and a violation of the laws of nature and of nature's God."

Finding: The childhood of children of homosexuals were considered more difficult than the childhood of children of heterosexuals. In 92 percent of homosexual-parented families, children mentioned having one or more problems or concerns. Of the 213 "score problems," 94 percent were attributed to the homosexual parent(s). Among appellate cases, the courts attributed 97 percent of the "harms" to children to the homosexual parent.

Sample or Data Description
Narratives from 52 homosexually parented families and files from 40 appeals court cases involving custody disputes between homosexual and heterosexual parents

Source
Paul Cameron, and Kirk Cameron
"Children of Homosexual Parents Report Childhood Difficulties"
Psychological Reports. Vol. 90, Number 1. February, 2002. Page(s) 71-82.

And, pray tell, why is it that gay men only want to adopt boys and gay women generally like to adopt girls? Hmmm???? Training the troops?

Half right. Lesbians for some reason prefer to adopt boys also. Really. Don't ask me why.

FYI

This tragic story show us why the wholesale acceptance of adoption as some kind of universal solution to social problems is just plain wrong. For one thing, adoptions are as unique as the individuals involved..... one solution does not fit all. Secondly, Adoption as an Institution is under fire from people with various agendas. I have posted extensively on the role of money in adoption. Some people use adoption as a cash cow. That's their agenda. Adoption of children can be used as a panacea for a failing marriage, as a way to advance one's political agenda, as a way to advance one's career. This story today is a great example of Adoption used as a political/cultural tool.

So when you hear the word adoption, please do not automatically assume the good intentions and the happy outcomes that various groups want you to see. Those who exploit children via the adoption vehicle want you to remain uninformed about the dark side of adoption. They want you to continue to have illusions about the process and the outcomes. They want to be able to continue to pull the wool over your eyes.

When you hear adoption stories in the media, take a moment to probe a bit. For instance, recent adoptors (beside Rosie) include Calista Flockheart and Tom and Nicole. They have the money but do they have the time and the heart to parent? Hitlerly and Liza Minelli have both stated recently they wanted to adopt. Why, do you suppose? People are using Adoption as a tool to advance their political agendas and their careers, as well as to satisfy personal needs. This is commodification of children on a terrible scale.

As to the "social experiment" aspect, when you speak with American women who experienced coerced adoption in the 1960s, they will tell you THAT was a failed social experiment. They will tell you that the technology used to separate them from their children was untested, and that the results have been a disaster for large numbers of them. We need to stop experimenting with our children, and with our mothers! Women and children are not lab rats.

As for the power wielded by social workers and the technology used by social workers to separate children from their families and trusted care givers,please carefully reread the article. These stories are so common that they no longer shock the long time observer. Social workers dealing with custody cases in this country have absolute immunity in many cases. That abuses follow under this condition is not surprising. Family not notified of a custody or fitness hearing until 30 minutes before? A common story. Family cut out of the loop? Commonly used technique. Threats, veiled or not, to a family's other children? Common technique.

Today the UN released an advanced edited version of the findings of a committe devoted to the rights of the child. Although the committee is primarily concerned with the exploitation of children by pornographers, it came to their attention that children were being offered for sale under the guise of adoption. Because the UN mandate covered children being offered "for sale" the committee accepted reports on adoption abuses where it could rightly be considered that women were being coerced into releasing children so they could be sold into adoption. Reports were accepted from developed countries and from third world countries. The entire section of the
report dealing with adoptionis fascinating; but of special interest is the last sentence of pp 110. See below.

ADVANCE EDITED VERSION
Distr. General 6 January 2003 Original: ENGLISH
COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS
Fifty-ninth session
Item 13 of the provisional agenda

RIGHTS OF THE CHILD

Reort submitted by M. Juan Miguel Petit, Special Rapporteur, on the sale of
children, child prostitution and child pornogrpahy in accordance with
Commission on Human Rights resolution 2002/92.

E/CN/2002/79
page 25

IV. OTHER ISSUES IN FOCUS
A. Adoption

110. During the course of 2002, the Special Rapporteur received many
complaints relating to allegedly fraudulent adoption practices. Where such
practices have the effect that the child becomes the object of a commercial
transaction, the Special Rapporteur, like his predecessor,
considers that such cases fall within the "sale" element of his mandate.
The Special Rapporteur was shocked to learn of the plethora of human rights
abuses which appear to permeate the adoption systems of many countries. The
Special Rapporteur considers that the best environment for most children to
grow up in is within a family, and that the adoption by a parent or parents
of a child who does not have a family able to look after him or her is a
commendable and noble action. Regrettably, in many cases, the emphasis has
changed from the desire to provide a needy child with a home, to that of
providing a needy parent with a child. As a result, a whole industry has
grown, generating millions of dollars of revenues each year, seeking babies
for adoption and charging prospective parents enormous fees to process
paperwork. The problems surrounding many intercountry adoptions in which
children are taken from poor families in undeveloped countries and given to
parents in developed countries, have become quite well known, but the
Special Rapporteur was alarmed to hear of certain practices within developed
countries, including the use of fraud and coercion to persuade single
mothers to give up their children.

111. Given the particular nature of many cases received, the Special
Rapporteur brought the information received to the attention of other
appropriate United Nations mechanisms and intends to continue to address
such abuses when they fall within the parameters of the mandate.

When are we going to become concerned ABOUT THE CHILDREN?

OK, I won't (smile). I know lesbians who have adopted but I don't know any gay men who have. I just read about them here. Poor kids.

FYI

This is horrific. Thank you for the flag. I can't collect these stories fast enough, and then just think about all the ones that don't get published.

Tell that to the Benedictines:

http://www.benedictinemonks.com/bnmonk22.htm

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