The Right Wing Case Against Adoption

[Stingo]

Glenn Stanton of Focus on the Family writes in the Philadelphia Inquirer that adoptive families are less than other families, and as such allowing gay marriage, and thus gay adoption, should be opposed. In doing so he harms adoptive families across this country, in direct violation of my family and of Focus on the Family policy. Stupid, stupid, stupid.

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[no_hypocrisy]

1. What their ideal is for Christian families to adopt and indoctrinate.

[Stingo]

3. Of course

But this guy is against all adoption in order to write against gay marriage.

[get the red out]

2. When do they bottom out?

When does the Christo-fascist right bottom out in terms of hate? At what point do they go as low as it is possible for any being resembling a human to go?

I don't know of any single entity on this planet more disgustingly hateful than the Christian Right, there are some that are their equal (the Taliban for instance) but none that are more wretched than these people.

I simply hope their ever-increasing public insanity will bring them down hard. I have two adopted nieces and if our family could love those little girls more I don't know how. These people will keep going until they find a way to dehumanize every family in this country but their select few followers, then what do we have? I can think of some examples in history.

[aSpeckofDust]

4. Nobody expects the spanish inquisition! N/t

[get the red out]

5. I didn't say that, we have laws

We have secular laws in this country to protect us legally, but I just wonder how much more insane their rhetoric can become?

[aSpeckofDust]

6. That's what Im saying, that's how far they will go. N/T

[get the red out]

8. I understand

I believe that they indeed WOULD go that far if they could. Total hate.

[Berry Cool]

7. What a nut job. Children don't always need their biological parents, and in some cases

they are far better off kept AWAY from their biological parents.

What they need is food, clothing, shelter and LOVE. If a person or people come along wanting to give them all these things, and their biological parents do not, they deserve to have other people as their parents who DO want to. No matter who those people are.

These wingnuts are just hanging themselves by expressing these philosophies.

Edited to add: Having just read his idiotic editorial, I can add that he goes on a bit about the "mystery" and the "wonder" of the male and female "essence." Translation: This is a fundie nut with nothin'. Left with no other real justification for his homophobia and hate, he whips up some rhetoric about the "wonderful mystery of the male and female" and how a relationship just isn't a relationship unless it contains one of each. But ONLY one, mind you.

[TrogL]

10. Fundies talk in code

it all translates as "gay bad, we good"

[Stumbler]

9. The cruel insanity never fails to amaze me.

Straight people can have kids regardless of circumstances. They can be poorly educated, working poor, abusive toward each other, etc. But because they're straight, they're considered "normal" in the eyes of this guy's God.

Adoptive families, whether straight or gay, have to prove themselves to be worthy parents. They have endless bureaucratic hoops to jump through to prove their employment, to prove they can provide a stable household, to show a lack of drug or alcohol abuse, etc. And no matter how qualified these families are, this guy opposes their chances of adopting because he just hates 'the gays' oh so much.

[NICO9000]

11. Just another asshole

My sister and I are both adopted. My mother had a hysterectomy in her 20s, so she and my father adopted me from Canada when I was six months old and got my sister here in California three years later when she was a newborn. My folks were really smart to tell us we were adopted when we were both very young (before we even knew the facts of life) and said we were special because we were wanted. I always felt that way and never had the urge to find my birth parents. To top it out, my sister came out in her mid-30s 12 years ago, and my old Italian parents had accepted it without any problem.

Focus on the Family has always been an organization of frightened morans. They insult all adoptive children and parents in another pathetic effort to advance their hateful anti-everybody except RW Christians agenda.

[Stingo]

12. You've got it right

What would they say about me adopting a black child, eh?

[burning rain]

13. Some righties might rap Stanton's knuckles over this.

Not the anti-gay adoption bit--that suits them right down to the ground--but hetero adoption is an article of faith for the religious right: it serves as a critical prop for their antibortion position. It is pretty much indispensable for allowing them to simultaneously oppose abortion and social assistance for poor single mothers and their children. The logic is that poor women should serve as baby machines for well-off families.

[jmondine]

14. So Glenn, what the FUCK are the unwanted babies caused by your anti-abortion policies to do?