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gaytheist — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 06:17:34 -0700

I wonder how many Christian parents who claim that the bible is their source for family values have beaten or killed their children for talking back to them like it tells them to. One could also offer their child as a sacrifice and find that justified in the bible. Ancient literature and superstition is a poor basis for family values. We have to teach our children how to live in this society, not the society of ancient nomadic desert tribes.
Gay parents are parents because they want to be. They are not squirting out babies every nine months without thought of how to support them. It is a well thought out decision. The time and effort that is expended ensures that these children are loved and cared for.

Come on People!

Wed, 28 May 2008 20:18:49 -0700

First of all,I believe that all people have the right to choose who they fall in love with. I am a gay man living in Utah and it is hard to live around such closed minded people. As is says above 2,600 kids who are sitting in a foster home with no parents and nobody to care for them. Why would it even matter if 2 homosexuals wanted to adopt them. We are just as capable of being loving parents as heterosexuals. It is amazing to me how you people (youngsplace) have no clue what the world is really like. When these kids turn 18 they are kicked out of foster care and expected to start there life. A good portion of them get into drugs, have low self esteem, and have never felt what a loving family is like. Shame on you! This country needs to change. What is your fear? That the whole world will turn Homosexual? I think it is you that needs to pray for yourself for thinking in such a closed minded way.

Your so ignorant it hurts my insides

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 17:42:44 -0700

Why would gay or lesbian couples not be allowed to raise children, thier just as intelligent and loving as a straight couple. Its people like you who hold the world back, who think that what thier parents taught them and what they've "been raised to believe" is automatically true. Also by the way, not all peoples follow the teachings of the bible. Another thing is the science behind it, Many gays are born the way they are, with a different hormone balance then the average person. So to talk about "converting" others to thier belief is just stupid.

Foster Care

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 08:33:53 -0800

NEWS ADVISORY
NCD #08–553
February 13, 2008
Contact: Mark S. Quigley
202-272-2004

National Council on Disability to Make Recommendations on Youth with Disabilities in the Foster Care System

WASHINGTON—The National Council on Disability (NCD) will release its latest report titled, Youth with Disabilities in the Foster Care System: Barriers to Success and Proposed Policy Solutions, at a news conference at 1:00 p.m. February 26, 2008, at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 200 Independence Avenue, SW, Room 505A, Washington, DC. This event is open to the public and the media and free of charge.

The goal for our country’s youth is to live healthy, happy lives and to become self-sufficient, contributing members of society as adults. However, there are subsets of youth who cannot reach these goals with ease. These youth need additional supports to assist them in their journey toward a healthy adulthood, as they are more vulnerable than the “average” youth and thus are more apt to fall through the cracks during their journey. Youth development researchers have determined that some specific youth populations are more vulnerable than others. This report examines one exceptionally challenged group in particular: older youth (specifically, preteen through young adult) with disabilities who are in the foster care system.

NCD is an independent federal agency and is composed of 15 members appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. We provide advice to the President, Congress, and executive branch agencies to promote policies, programs, practices, and procedures that—
(A) guarantee equal opportunity for all individuals with disabilities, regardless of the nature or severity of the disability; and
(B) empower individuals with disabilities to achieve economic self-sufficiency, independent living, and inclusion and integration into all aspects of society.

For more information, please contact NCD’s director of external affairs, Mark S. Quigley, at mquigley@ncd.gov or by telephone at 202-272-2004.

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Couple's adopting

Tue, 05 Feb 2008 09:58:52 -0800

I agree that a married couple may be more stable for a child then a couple who have not decided to make that commitment because if they decided not to be together it might create an un-stable environment for the child. Yet, there are couples who have been together for years and have a very stable relationship and would be perfect for parent hood. Also, I am a Lesbian and I believe that if they pass this measure then the state should allow gay and lesbian couples to marry because they are discriminating against that group of people. There are a huge amount of gay and lesbian couples out there that would love to be joined in wedlock and would make better parents then some straight couples. Being gay and lesbian is not a disease, you can't catch it. There was a time in our history where white people beleived that when they shook the hand of an African American that it was necessary to rub your hand off afterwards as if you can catch black, which is ridiculous, well preventing children from having a loving family and caring, responsible parents, and a good stable life just because your religion says it is wrong for two people of the same sex to sleep together is just as ridiculous and it is almost cruel. Open up your eyes, there are more important things in this world to put your energy and means in to then just focusing on preventing loving human beings, who would make amazing parents, the right to adopt. WAKE UP!

This is reduculous!! States

Sun, 23 Dec 2007 10:31:56 -0800

This is reduculous!! States like Utah, Flordia and Mississippi would rather keep children in foster care than give them the families that they so desire. Yet, they talk about how many kids there are in foster care and how they need a family. If more states would allow gay couples to adopt we could reduce the number of children wanting families by 50 - 60%. I applaud these guys for wanting and fighting for the right to care for these children

Very well put.The time will

Wed, 05 Dec 2007 01:26:11 -0800

Very well put.The time will come when the partners assume right to teach children not to judge as we are so often.A proven fact,gay couples MUST excell ,just as women

Wonderful!

Thu, 29 Nov 2007 15:48:48 -0800

Great video that really illustrates the point.

-Emily
http://picodegallo.wordpress.com/

Great video

MammaMia — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 14:11:31 -0800

Good job ACLU. Check out http://www.aclu.tv to see more excellent/professional clips.

Hold to your guns Randi

Mon, 12 Nov 2007 16:30:10 -0800

For the law to say she can't adopt her own grandaughter if it were to become nessassary is just down right evil. It's not only gay couples fostering or adopting children out of the welfare system, this law will prevent a man's lesbian sister who lives wiht her partner from taking his children if he and his wife are killed in an accident, even if she is the only family those chlidren have. The religous bigots would rather they go to strangers and be just another case for the over crowded, over worked foster care system. No conideration for the children or the family involved, just their own wish to force their "christian values" down the throats of the rest of the world.

Jag

I think that you are right

Sun, 04 Nov 2007 17:33:57 -0800

I think that you are right in every aspect. email me at any time mississppi_rose78@yahoo.com

Hi. My name is April. I was

Sun, 04 Nov 2007 17:32:30 -0800

Hi. My name is April. I was raised up by my uncle and aunt instead of my parents.The family that my sister and I grew up in was not the very best. I have a sister who is a lesbian and she has a "partner". If these two were to ever have a chance to have a child together I think it would be the most awesome thing in the world!! I don't think one's sexuality has anything to do with how they raise a child or children. What they do behind their closed bedroom doors is there business not mine or yours or anyone else's. Those of you who cannot stand the fact that lesbians and gays are who they are are nothing more than hypocritcal idiots. In the bible it teaches us not to judge as we will be judged for our own actions when our time comes. I think that it is fantastic that they can be parents. Take me for instance, I cannot have children. My husband and I have been married 10 years and would love to have a few little ones runnig around. My sister and sister in law have 3 that my sister gave up in her younger days. I think as long as you can offer a child love, friendship, kindness, food, shelter, clothing, and all their basic needs and wants then you are fit to raise a child no matter what your sexuality is. I am a Christian myself and i don't see a thing wrong with one having a different sexuality as me. GOD is the only one that can judge me and you not some other person. So I say, gays and lesbians I am 110% percent for you being able to have children however you can get them. April

You straight people are real strange.....

Mon, 29 Oct 2007 04:56:39 -0700

If you can't accept the responsibility that comes with having a child, why are you having them?

If you keep insisting that people like myself are freaks, and unfit, come January, I'm halving my Gay White tax dollars!

hmmm

Fri, 26 Oct 2007 21:39:25 -0700

Pull your head out of the sand and take a look at what is going on.
What would you rather the children accept as normal?
Should they accept that being gay is normal? (and it is - gay people exist in every country, every culture, and every ethnic division on the planet, at a rate of about 10% of the population.)
Or perhaps you would rather them grow up to accept that substance abuse and trouble with the law is the way to go.
Safe to say I wouldn't be leaving the futures of my children to you and your 2000 year old book.

Could you possibly be any more ignorant

Tue, 23 Oct 2007 18:34:19 -0700

I work for the Division of Child and Family Services. I see a terrible need for loving foster families.
Nothing accepted in the intelligent, informed community demonstrates that gay couples would be inappropriate to care for children, in fact research shows they have many strengths most hetersexual couples do not have.
The bible teaches so many false and contradictory things that it is ridiculous to base policy and law on what a confused ancient (and mostly false) book says.
God can mind his own business and intelligent people should be making decisions on how to care for the children who need a home in our state.
Pray for yourselves, the gay people in our state don't need your hypocritical pleas.