Posted on 02/24/2006 6:16:58 PM PST by Arnold Zephel
Columbus - Citing "credible research" showing that children raised by Republican parents are more likely to be intolerant, State Sen. Bob Hagan sent out a spoof that seeks co-sponsors for a bill to ban registered Republicans from adopting children or serving as foster parents.
It follows a GOP-drafted bill - that's not a spoof - to ban gays and lesbians from adopting or becoming foster parents.
In a memo to his Senate colleagues, the Youngstown Democrat notes that Republican-raised children tend to be "significantly wealthier than their Democrat-raised counterparts," but "at risk for developing emotional problems, social stigmas, inflated egos, an alarming lack of tolerance for others they deem different than themselves and an air of overconfidence to mask their insecurities."
House Speaker Jon Husted, a Dayton-area Republican and an adoptee, opposes the gay adoption bill but disputes Hagan's thesis.
"I was raised by Democrats," Husted said.
"I got to go to the secret meetings when I was growing up. That's how I knew they were going to tax me and take away my Second Amendment rights. That's why I became a Republican."
His biological brother, he said, was raised by wolves - and became a Democrat.
The gay adoption ban is not expected to win approval, mainly because of opposition from Husted, who has called on lawmakers to address more pressing economic issues.
Ohio has more than 3,000 kids on adoption waiting lists.
To reach this Plain Dealer reporter:
stheis@plaind.com, 1-800-228-8272
Call his bluff. Let the dems be known as the party that wants to cut the number of people available to adopt homeless kids in half.
I'm sure that fool's constituents must be thrilled that he is wasting the taxpayer's money drafting silly twaddle.
Lobotomies for Democrats...I'd say there oughta be a law, except lobotomies would be redundant.
but "at risk for developing emotional problems, social stigmas, inflated egos, an alarming lack of tolerance for others they deem different than themselves and an air of overconfidence to mask their insecurities." <<<
My Gawd!!!....He's just defined a Democrat!
ROTFLMAO!! Hysterical!
I propose a bill than bans reproduction by anyone who has ever received public assistance - even once - goign back 4 generations.
Ha.
Not a bad idea actually.
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