Posted on 04/09/2015 7:01:38 AM PDT by Iron Munro
Florida’s nearly 40-year-old ban on gay adoption - which hasn’t been enforced for the past five years - is about to be tossed out by the state’s Republican-controlled Legislature.
But it’s not going without a fierce debate, including whether the state should adopt a separate law that would let private agencies use religious or moral grounds to turn away gay couples seeking to adopt children.
Some Republicans say this “conscience” law is needed to ensure that faith-based organizations handling adoptions will keep offering their services, but other legislators have compared the measure to Indiana’s religious objections law and said it would encourage discrimination against gay couples.
Both the House and Senate spent hours on Wednesday debating the state’s existing ban - and what will happen if it is permanently removed from law.
Sen. Don Gaetz, R-Niceville, defended the decision to jettison the gay adoption ban and called it a relic of another time that is now meaningless since an appeals court declared the law unconstitutional in 2010.
“We don’t need to turn the social clock in this state back to 1977,” said Gaetz, who is sponsoring the adoption bill.
Sen. Kelli Stargel, R-Lakeland, tried unsuccessfully to persuade other senators to keep the ban on the books. Stargel argued that getting rid of the ban could lead faith-based organizations to leave the state.
“I’m not going to let something leave this chamber and go to the governor that I think is the wrong policy for the state of Florida,” said Stargel.
The Florida Senate on Wednesday gave tentative approval to the bill (HB 7013) that eliminates the ban.
But after an outcry from conservative groups over the demise of the ban, House Republicans have agreed to push forward a separate bill that would “shield” religious organizations
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The liberal homo agenda is supreme - the well being of the children in question isn't even a consideration to the homo mafia.
Yeah....that’s gonna work out swell. The thing about perversion is that it always craves more. It has to be fed to satiate, and it has to escalate to satisfy as before (or better).
It’s the same reason why some people are destined to escalate their drug use to higher and higher (and more dangerous) kinds of drugs.
“and said it would encourage discrimination against gay couples.”
It seems to me that adoption is not about the adopting parents, it’s about what’s good for the children. There are lots of heterosexual couples who also can’t and shouldn’t be allowed to adopt either.
Similar laws have already led to the shutdown of Catholic adoption services in Massachusetts, California, and I believe Illinois.
It's all based on the idea that adoption serves the wants of adults: that the adults in the situation have a "right" to get what they want. this reverses the traditional and moral basis of adoption, which is rooted in the obligation of the adults to recognize the child's rights and needs, including a child's right and profound need for a father and a mother.
Have the Florida bishops said anything? (I fear I could already guess the answer).
Google Peter Truong and Mathew Newton.
Thirty years in jail plus for sexual abuse of their ‘child’.
They are the reason the Russians banned surrogate adoptions to the U.S.
Even some gays realize that this is a bad idea.
People keep asking me if the kids be better off in the foster care system than in a “loving” faggot home. I say ABSOLUTELY YES they would!
Poor kids.
Some of us in Florida still care about this.....
......and we wish our representatives gave a flying leap!
Gov. Rick Scott no doubt will sign off on this next week.
It may not be too late to call Thad Altman ( our rep here) if anyone cares.
Let’s play fill in the blank:
Honor thy father and thy _____ .
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It’s not father and father or mother and mother.
For 1000s and 1000s and 1000s of years, marriage has always been between a man and a woman. No culture in world history has ever shown it to be anything else.
So now we’ve got some perverts telling us they want to “redefine” marriage?
It’s time to start fighting back aggressively. Putting a child who needs a mother and a father into a gay home instead is not in the best interests of the child. The fact that two people want a child as a social accessory or so they can pretend to be less abnormal is not relevant; only the child’s interests should be considered in adoption.
The Gay Old Party strikes again.
Can a single man adopt a kid? When are they going to teenagers to adopt kids?
I thought the way it worked was that the party in charge has the speaker, who controls the agenda.
Therefore, the only reason this bill is on the floor is because the repub speaker put it there.
They could have just not put it up for debate to quash it.
So this is a RINO controlled legislature, not repub.
But, it’s a text from a long, long time ago that has absolutely no meaning now. The Bible is old and out-dated now. All of us that believe in it are uneducated dolts.
Thad Altman is no friend to conservatives. Still, these RINOs need to hear from us anyway. Republicans rule this state, but who needs worry about democrats when you’ve got Romney-level RINOs in their place.
A lot of boys will be sodomized soon unfortunately.
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