The Ballot Wedge Issue of 2006 has arrived- Gay Adoption

[kach22i]

The Ballot Wedge Issue of 2006 has arrived- Gay Adoption
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2006-02-20-gay-adoption_x.htm?POE=NEWISVA/

Drives to ban gay adoption heat up in 16 states
By Andrea Stone, USA TODAY
Efforts to ban gays and lesbians from adopting children are emerging across the USA as a second front in the culture wars that began during the 2004 elections over same-sex marriage.......................................... ....... Election-year politics. 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 Be***** Jeffe, University of Southern California political scientist.

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."

Republican pollster Whit Ayres is skeptical. Adoption, he says, "doesn't have the emotional power of the gay marriage issue because there is no such thing as the phrase 'the sanctity of adoption.' "

And this is how the Republicans intend to keep power in 2006 and 2008 elections. The lack of dignity to this approach is enough to make baby Jesus weep.

[vash]

[kach22i]

I guess some people have stronger feelings than that Vash.

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/showthread.php?threadid=269279&perpage=20&pagenumber=3

Originally posted by Tim Hancock
(FWIW, my wife and I would rather have our kids raised by convicted felons, rather than being raised by a gay couple.)

[vash]

honestly, i just had that .gif file in my computer. i had been dying to use it.

i didnt really read the thread. i am sure other will love it, and respond intellegently.

[Mr_Wizard]

Is this really an issue. BFD!!!! So what. There are more important things going on in the world today than Gay Adoption. Wow what a shame, a kid has to grow up with 2 caring parents, (M/M or F/F) there should be a law against this. *******s.

[kach22i]

Originally posted by Mr_Wizard
Is this really an issue. BFD!!!! So what. There are more important things going on in the world today than Gay Adoption. Wow what a shame, a kid has to grow up with 2 caring parents, (M/M or F/F) there should be a law against this. *******s.

It's about getting the vote out, out of people usually too ignorant to vote in their best interest. Homophobia has been proven to be a motivator and vote getter in America, not sure it would would in any other western country. I'm sure it would work in most Islamic countries - the irony of it all.

[Tim Hancock]

This thread is so gay!

[kach22i]

Originally posted by Tim Hancock
This thread is so gay!

If you say so.

[dhoward]

[lendaddy]

Originally posted by dhoward

And I can watch