So I think we're all fairly well aware of the right-wing's attacks on homosexuality in general but in few places does it pertain more to the everyday lives of gay people more than the decision to raise children.
After all, the pope condemned homosexuality a threat to the very future of humanity and Presidential Hopeful and full time religiion wingnut Rick Santorum famously stated that it's better to have a father in prison than a pair of loving and caring lesbian parents.
Not only that, but many state legislatures just don't think that the right to parenthood extends to gay people.
This is a sad truth of the state of the world and while we're always making strides toward equality for all humans, including gay people, there are still many who would relegate them to a second-class social status despite the fact that gay people are still people who can bring so very much to the social table.
Well.... FUCK THOSE GUYS. Science once again proves that stupid people are still stupid.
That's not even the half of it. Check out the article. It'll make you want to hug gay parents (or heterosexual parents) who did manage to adopt a kid.
The comments have restored a little of my faith in humanity as welll.
After all, the pope condemned homosexuality a threat to the very future of humanity and Presidential Hopeful and full time religiion wingnut Rick Santorum famously stated that it's better to have a father in prison than a pair of loving and caring lesbian parents.
Not only that, but many state legislatures just don't think that the right to parenthood extends to gay people.
This is a sad truth of the state of the world and while we're always making strides toward equality for all humans, including gay people, there are still many who would relegate them to a second-class social status despite the fact that gay people are still people who can bring so very much to the social table.
Well.... FUCK THOSE GUYS. Science once again proves that stupid people are still stupid.
Huff Post: Science Wrote:In a 2010 review of virtually every study on gay parenting, New York University sociologist Judith Stacey and University of Southern California sociologist Tim Biblarz found no differences between children raised in homes with two heterosexual parents and children raised with lesbian parents.
That's not even the half of it. Check out the article. It'll make you want to hug gay parents (or heterosexual parents) who did manage to adopt a kid.
The comments have restored a little of my faith in humanity as welll.
ARGH28 Wrote:Nurturing tolerance is what scares conservatives the most. They could care less if the child is raised in a happy, healthy environment- what they want is children indoctrinated into religion and fear, and taught from a young age who they should be intolerant of, because conservatives need to prey on that brainwashing once they become adults.
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools and next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers...
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
