{"id":9082,"date":"2006-02-21T11:19:35","date_gmt":"2006-02-21T18:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2006\/02\/21\/fabulous-news.html"},"modified":"2014-11-05T15:20:12","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T22:20:12","slug":"fabulous_news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/02\/21\/fabulous_news.html","title":{"rendered":"Fabulous news!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Social conservative groups, having evidently already solved the persistent problems of feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, healing the sick, comforting the afflicted, and other actually-spelled-out in the Bible <\/em>Christian imperatives, now have plenty of free time on their hands. Which means, all those actual problems now out of they way, they can focus on the Number One Social Ill Gripping the Nation:<\/p>\n

The Menace of Gay Adoption<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Steps to pass laws or secure November ballot initiatives are underway in at least 16 states, adoption, gay rights and conservative groups say. Some \u2014 such as Ohio, Georgia and Kentucky \u2014 approved constitutional amendments in 2004 banning gay marriage.<\/p>\n

“Now that we’ve defined what marriage is, we need to take that further and say children deserve to be in that relationship,” says Greg Quinlan of Ohio’s Pro-Family Network, a conservative Christian group.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Right. We don’t allow gays to marry, and if we assert that kids should only be adopted by married couples, then obviously gays can’t adopt. And gays shouldn’t marry because, well, look, we don’t trust them to adopt our kids, do we?<\/p>\n

Florida has banned all gays and lesbians from adopting since 1977, although they can be foster parents. State court challenges and a campaign by entertainer Rosie O’Donnell to overturn the law have failed. A pending bill would allow judges to grant exceptions.<\/p>\n

Mississippi bans adoption by gay couples, but gay singles can adopt. Utah prohibits all unmarried couples from adoption.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Not, of course, that this is politically <\/em>motivated or anything.<\/p>\n

Republicans battered by questions over ethics and Iraq “might well” use the adoption issue to deflect attention and draw out conservatives in close Senate and governor races in states such as Missouri and Ohio, says Sherry Bebitch Jeffe, University of Southern California political scientist.<\/p>\n

The aim is to replicate 2004, says Julie Brueggemann of the gay rights group PROMO: Personal Rights of Missourians. She says marriage initiatives mobilized conservative voters in 2004 and helped President Bush win in closely contested states such as Ohio. Republicans “see this as a get-out-the-vote tactic.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Feh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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