Homosexual Adoption, NH Bill HB51,

NH House Journal ^ | 4 January 2007 | Some Rat

[Little Bill]

HB 51 – AS INTRODUCED

2007 SESSION

07-0279

05/04

HOUSE BILL 51

AN ACT permitting adoption by 2 unmarried adults in a familial relationship.

SPONSORS: Rep. Lockwood, Merr 6; Rep. Bouchard, Merr 11; Rep. Tupper, Merr 6; Rep. Blanchard, Merr 10; Rep. MacKay, Merr 11

COMMITTEE: Children and Family Law

ANALYSIS

This bill permits 2 unmarried adults in a familial relationship to adopt jointly.

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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.

Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]

Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

07-0279

05/04

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Seven

AN ACT permitting adoption by 2 unmarried adults in a familial relationship.

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

1 New Paragraph; Adoption; Who May Adopt; Unmarried Adults in a Familial Relationship. Amend RSA 170-B:4 by inserting after paragraph IV the following new paragraph:

V. Two unmarried adults in a familial relationship. In this paragraph, a familial relationship shall be determined by considering all relevant circumstances of the petitioners, including:

(a) The sharing of a common residence.

(b) Economic interdependence, such as jointly owning or renting a home.

(c) A shared commitment to parenting duties and responsibilities.

2 New Paragraph; Persons Not Required to Surrender. Amend RSA 170-B:7 by inserting after paragraph VI the following new paragraph:

VII. A parent of the adoptee who intends to maintain his or her parental rights along with the parent’s spouse or partner in a familial relationship, as defined in RSA 170-B:4, V.

3 Effective Date. This act shall take effect January 1, 200

[Little Bill]

Will Hannover become P-town North? Will National Grid dump the Dams on the Conn River to create a tidal effect, as they did for Gore in his boat?

This is the newly socalist NH, Mass is prolog.

[MSF BU]

Is there a chance this will pass?

[rhombus]

NH's done gone blue.

[Little Bill]

NH Ping List. If you want on FReep mail me. Getting off might be a problem because I don't access my FReep mail all that often.

NH has a FR Locale where you can discuss local issues and connect with our presently oppressed Minority, sign on.

[Gay State Conservative]

NH *has* gone blue but the process isn't quite complete...but will be soon.

Income tax...sales tax....homosexual marriage...welfare benefits that allow the most vulnerable among us to live in dignity....

[Little Bill]

I spent 46 years fighting back as a Masshole, but the process was well on the way then. New soil, light the spark, never give up.

[weegee]

If Same Sex relations was about the actions of 2 consenting adults in private, I would like to know when it is that the adopted child gets to consent to being brought into an alternative lifestyle which is contrary to thousands of years of morality around the world.

[longtermmemmory]

will this pass?

Prohibiting homosexuals from adopting children is already constitutional
I can't believe they would allow children to be sexually endangered this way.

[Little Bill]

Contact your Reps, make noise, be crass. There has to be a hearing in New Stalingrad, Concord, attend with your neighbors and let your opinions be known.

The founders expected Us as citizens to let our elected reps know when they crossed the line.

[Little Bill]

Of course they would, there is nothing wrong with Homosexuality it is just a glandular disease. They have a genetic proclivity to molest kids.</P>

It is not their fault, their mother made them do it.

[ishmac]

Some interesting programs on this subject on the Catholic Answers Radio program in the past couple weeks. Click here, go to Jan 2007, then look for Jan 8: "The Moral Implications of Gay Adaption" and "Life as a Child in a Gay Household." Each program lasts about 55 minutes. Dawn Stefanowicz is the woman interviewed in the second program. Her website is: http://www.dawnstefanowicz.com/aboutdawn.php. Fascinating testimony from someone who grew up in a gay "family."

[originalbuckeye]

I am constantly mystified that thinking adults can take responsibility for sending an innocent baby to 'two mommies or two daddies'. I bet most of the adults that make these decisions had a mother and a father themselves. Kids benefit from having a parent of each gender, they learn different things from each one. New Hampshire used to be such a lovely place.......

[MSF BU]

It would be interesting if this bill would place homosexuals and couples shacking-up in the same category as married couples; in other words could/would married couples receive preference or would marriage status make no difference?

[hershey]

NPR ran a piece on gay adoption a few weeks ago. Two men, 'married' in MA, I think, went to South America, adopted a baby boy. The stepmother and father of one of the men stayed with them for the first week or so...to help out. The speaker kept calling the baby, 'the kid'. One night the baby howled away like mad, and the speaker admitted that he'd lost his temper and swore at 'the kid' and wondered why he was going through all this. He didn't want a kid. He'd never wanted a kid.

His stepmother snatched the baby away, telling him never to swear at the child. (Emotional abuse!) NPR reinterviewed him a year later, and he said they were fine. NPR thought all this was just swell, but it sounded as if this man had simply jumped on the latest bandwagon, and 'the kid' was a fashion accessory, like Paris Hilton's dog.

[expatguy]

If they want children then why dont they get married?

[Alouette]

Homosexuals have a much higher rate of domestic abuse (33-40% of gay relationships are abusive), twice as much as heterosexuals (12-22%), and are also a greater health risk and lower life expectancy due to their unsafe sexual habits.

[AuH2ORepublican]

Adoption (and foster parenting) should be limited to married couples (with an exception for close relatives of a child, who should be allowed to adopt them even if they are single). End of story. If an unmarried couple wants a baby, they should get married. If they are of the same sex, they should by no means be allowed to make a mockery of marriage or parenthood by having a state-recognized "union" (unless it's some sort of partnership available to any two people, whether sexually involved or not) or adopting children.

To correct a common misconception, New Hampshire is not becoming more like Massachusetts, it is becoming more like Vermont. Hopefully, the Democrats being in control will lead to a GOP resurgence in the state in 2008---remember, President Bush got 49% in the state in 2004, so there's still a solid conservative base to work with.

[Little Bill]

Hopefully, the Democrats being in control will lead to a GOP resurgence in the state in 2008---remember

This why I started posting proposed bills in the General Court. If FReepers network over some of this garbage, most sane people pay no attention whats going on in the Legislature, we can put a stop to most of it.

As an unsane person and a reformed Masshole, I saw a fairly repressed state turned in to a socialist hell. Bye the way I was youth for Goldwater, first exposure to politics.