Gay adoption ban receives heavy support

[truthpusher]

http://www.dnj.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050224/NEWS01/502240306/1002

Gay adoption ban receives heavy support
Thursday, February 24, 2005

By Maura Satchell
DNJ Staff Writer

Local residents support a proposed amendment to ban adoption by gay couples, according to an informal poll conducted on Murfreesboro's Public Square Wednesday afternoon.

"I'm all for adoption, but by the right people," said Howard Gannon, a Murfreesboro resident who is opposed to adoption by gay couples.

(snip)

A handful of Riverdale High School seniors on the Square for a class project said they support the amendment. One of the students, Regina Wilkerson, spoke from experience and conviction.

"I was raised by a single mother and believe that children should grow up in a home with a mother and father. A homosexual home is not a Christian home," she said.

complete story:
http://www.dnj.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050224/NEWS01/502240306/1002

[Bill McBlueState]

1. wow, these people really hate children n/t

[skids]

2. Howard Gannon?

Just what we need... another "Gannon" cooincidence. It's enough to make one's head explode. No pun intended.

[RT Atlanta]

3. If this is Murfreesboro, TN, 'nuff said...

Bunch of close-minded "Christian" whackos is what inhabit that part of the state. I would be willing to bet several months' of my pay check that those quoted in the article and those who attended to not know a single gay person.

[Bill McBlueState]

5. well, not that they're aware of

They certainly know gay people, but they're too clueless to notice, and you can't blame their gay friends for staying closeted in that environment. Probably everyone knows someone who's gay.

[RT Atlanta]

8. Good point!

They probably do know folks, but either dont want to accept it, or the gays who live in that community quite concerned about self-preservation and stay closeted.

[noonwitch]

10. I knew someone from Murfreesboro-they're not big on "race mixing", either

She was white and had bi-racial children. She was afraid to ever go back to visit family with her children-she said her own family told her never to come back.

I wouldn't consider Murfreesboro to be a real sample of american attitudes about gay adoptions.

[StClone]

4. Ban on Intelligence draws broad support in Tennessee

The Amendment also has a rider initiating intolerance, scape goating and bigotry. One politician said we'd put a "must own fire arms and drive a pick up with a gun rack provision in the Amendment but we got tired." Maybe next time.

[Guckert]

6. what about banning adoption for couples with dysfunctional marriages?

What a joke. I guess the foster home is a much more "Christian" environment??? Are these guys for real??? Why not ban adoption from wife beaters, adulterers,drunks, and speeders, what about people who dont wear their seatbelt. they should not be allowed to adopt. I guess a loving family does not count in the eyes of God??

[bleedingheart]

9. I couldn't agree more....

there are a lot of couples i know that can't handle themselves let alone the children they bring into the world....

[gratuitous]

7. War not going so good, economy in the crapper

Let's bash gays and feel better about ourselves!

What tiny-minded bigots.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

11. Florida has a problem with gay adoption too, but they let these people

have 7 fucking kids to torture.

Couple accused of child abuse denied bail
Floridians once praised for parenting accused of abusing kids

Monday, February 21, 2005 Posted: 10:04 AM EST (1504 GMT)


BEVERLY HILLS, Florida (AP) -- When John and Linda Dollar were seeking to adopt more children a decade ago, social workers regarded them as model parents -- well-to-do, well-meaning folks who raised their five children with love.

"The Dollars love and want to help children. They feel the more children they have, the merrier they are," dazzled caseworkers wrote.

Now the couple stand accused of monstrous acts against five of their eight children, who told investigators they were starved, shocked with a cattle prod, beaten with a hammer and had toenails yanked out with pliers. Their emaciated bodies were compared by police to victims of Nazi concentration camps.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/02/20/family.torture.ap/

[bif]

12. Blow me Howard!

[megatherium]

13. Instead of letting gay people adopt unwanted children,

perhaps we can just abort them instead.

[BR_Parkway]

14. Ignorance is bliss? Never fails to amaze me how they can do this

"for the children".

But later parts of the article tell it all:

Tennessee's Department of Children's Services responds to more than 37,000 reports of child abuse and neglect each year, and the state reports that 17 percent of the state's 1.4 million children live below the poverty level.

So we'll pass gay bashing measures, trying to buy our way into heaven, but don't give a shit that 1 out of 5 kids is in poverty. These are the kids who are going to take care of you in your old age - I hope for your sakes they care more about you then you did about them!

[AlCzervik]

15. oh ok howard better to let children languish in foster care

instead of being cared for in a gay household.....love the fetus...hate the child.

[Bunny]

16. See me in hell, assholes!

Honestly, there are days when I can't stand a huge segment of the human race. :grr:

[Richard Steele]

17. This is how it starts....

Once Gays are declared unfit to raise children, what's next?

Laws against Gays teaching, that's obvious.

Then we better not let them live within 1000 yards of schools...hell, we better make it illegal to let them enter any public areas where kids might SEE them, right?

Hell, we better just BAN homosexuality altogether, with a mandatory LIFE sentence upon conviction...for the children's sake, of course...

[theHandpuppet]

18. Tennessee needs to clean up its own God-fearing house...

... before they take aim at the issue of gay adoption. Tell me some of the children listed below wouldn't be better off in a home with loving parents who happen to be gay! And maybe those lawmakers in Tennessee can tell me how many of these 37,000 children were the victims of a gay parent, rather than straight "Christian" parents?

Child abuse and neglect is an immense problem for our nation and our state. Each year, approximately 3 million reports of possible maltreatment are made to child protective service agencies nationwide-an average of one every 10 seconds.1 The actual incidence of abuse and neglect is estimated to be three times greater than the number reported to authorities.2


In Tennessee, the Department of Children's Services responds to over 37,000 reports of child abuse and neglect annually. Every day, more than 100 children are reported abused or neglected in the state.3


According to the department's most recent statistics, reports of abuse and neglect increased 6.9% from 1998 to 1999 for a total of 33,629 reports. Forty-one percent of the reports involved children under five. Children ages six through 11 made up 36%; children ages 12 through 17 made up the remaining 23%.

http://www.childhelpusa.org/tennessee/info_statistics.htm

[msmcghee]

19. I said in a post yesterday . .

.. that anyone who wants to raise a child, their's or adopted, should first prove their ability to do so by raising a puppy to a well socialized happy pet.

But after reading about some of these people I'm sure that would constitute cruelty to animals.

[Ian David]

20. Well, I know where the next National Gay Pride Convention should be

Holiday Inn Murfreesboro, Murfreesboro
http://travel.yahoo.com/p-hotel-323524-holiday_inn_murfreesboro-i

2227 old Fort Pkwy, Murfreesboro, TN 37129 - map
from $59.00/night
Pets Allowed, Fitness Center, Wheelchair Accessible



Another places nearby are much more better
The holidome was really awful,the pool was yellow.The both restuarant are terrible,over-price...the best thing for the hotel is all staffs are really nice and helpful..
by A Yahoo! Traveler from Chicaco,IL 10/28/04

[booksenkatz]

21. "The right people"

Like the ones who chop off their toddlers' arms, beat them with rocks until they are brain damaged or dead, force them to drink bleach, drown them in the bathtub, rape them until their tongues are severed.

Yeah, those good ole-fashioned Amurkin heterosexual mommies and daddies!!!!

[DemsUnite]

22. Let social workers and judges decide each case

A blanket ban on any group is discriminatory and unwise.

[Rush1184]

23. Reminds me of the box turtle math

Heterosexual couple > Single Parent > Homosexual Couple = Man fucking a box turtle

[VegasWolf]

24. Good heterosexual couples aren't xtian either. n/t