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Another Adoption Ban Looms in TennesseeRight now, our country is in the midst of the worst recession in recent history. The global financial system is facing a crisis of historic proportions. Government entities, from small school districts to the State of California, are facing budget nightmares and even financial insolvency. And in this environment, what have two members of the Tennessee legislature decided is a top priority? Preventing kids from getting adopted. State Senator Paul Stanley (R-Memphis) and State Representative John DeBerry (D-Memphis) have introduced a bill that would prohibit cohabiting, unmarried couples from adopting in Tennessee. From among the dozens of reasons this law is a bad idea, let me mention just two. First, and most importantly, it would deny thousands of children the chance to be adopted into stable, loving homes simply because their potential parents are not — or cannot get — married in Tennessee. Second, it would interfere with parents’ right to determine who they want their children to be raised by in the event of their own death. You might think your lesbian sister and her partner would be the best people to raise your child if something happened to you, but under this law, the state of Tennessee wouldn’t allow it. Yesterday, Eric Lulow, a former foster child himself, wrote an eloquent op-ed for The Tennessean about the damage that will be done to foster children if this law passes. The paper then went on to oppose the proposed law in its own editorial. Let’s hope that rational voices like these prevail in this debate. For the sake of the children.
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Feb 18th, 2009 at 11:09pm
Yes I'm from Tennessee and thank God for this bill. Yes it is meant to keep pedophiles, I mean fags and dykes from molesting, I mean adopting children.
You goddamn liberal bastards are full of shit.
Feb 19th, 2009 at 2:16pm
Yes it's much better for kids to be brought up by enlightend folks like Liberal Hater and the Creationist Flat Earthers.
Feb 19th, 2009 at 10:50pm
God is dead. Jesus was jewish. Woman was not created from a rib. Its impossible for noah to have built an ark. People die... they do not come back to life. Your an a$$h0le all on your own. The dev1l didnt make you do it.
Gay bashing is a clear sign of suppressed homosexuality. Your so focused, passionate and mad at what people do in their own bedrooms because your jealous and struggle with your own love for the c#ck.
Go ask your pastor Haggard for some comfort.
Feb 20th, 2009 at 2:49am
And yet 90% of all molesters are Hetrosexual, most of whom are married. But guess that's better than an unmarried straight couple or non molesting gays if I am reading Liberal Hater correctly.
This is why this Alabama born and raised girl, left the south. Too much hate.