Strollerderby

this is ridiculous.  my son is adopted from foster care and i have many same sex couple friends that have adopted from foster care that are wonderful parents.  there is no research to prove that the children would turn out differently than any other adopted child from being raised with two moms or two dads.  i hope people realize the damage that children face languishing in foster care their whole lives.  they are certainly much better off experiencing a loving home, the partner choice of the parents should not matter.  

It is a religious belief. Christians believe that marriage is between a man and a woman, children are entitled to be born or adopted into a marriage where man and woman exist.  Don't take it up with McCain or the people of Arkansas, take it up with God.

there we go, hiding HATE behind religion again.........

Has McCain ever actually MET kids with same-sex parents? How about kids raised in orphanages? So how come he's magically able to make this judgment?

nannypoo... I took your suggestion and did take it up with god... and she is majorly ticked off!

She said to let everyone know that she strongly prefers that kids are raised in loving homes by nurturing caregivers who want to raise them.

This makes me so sick and angry. I honestly thing the world would be a better place without right wing bigots and misguided religious idiots.

"9,000 children are in the Arkansas foster care system - many of them are hoping to be permanently adopted by loving parents. Over 45,000 unmarried-partner households live in Arkansas (including both same-sex and different-sex couples) - some of them would make great foster or adoptive parents. The ballot initiative would lock children into the temporary, sometimes overcrowded foster system, and lock them out of potentially better situations, for no reason except bias against unmarried people.

Children and parents deserve a better chance! Arkansas voters must say no to the Arkansas' Anti-Adoption Act!"

Alternatives to Marriage, 501c3

www.unmarried.org

I wish people would stop putting words in my mouth. I'm over it. As per my discussion with KD, I'm all for loving families, whether they be same-sex, multiracial,or what have you. You're really bumming me out with all this hate-speak. I may have to smite you.

Sometimes "unmarried couples" just means unmarried couples, and it does seem like a good idea to have some criteria for relationship stability before letting people take care of a kid (who has probably seen enough instability). None of the news stories I can find (all of them seemingly pro-gay rights) give any examples of stable gay couples in Arkansas who have been excluded from the fosterage system. So it seems that the dire consequences for both foster kids and gay rights are hypothetical at this point.

McCain is a dad by birth and adoption. Seems the codger should have a little bit more perspective on the matter given life experience. But again, I am not surprised, just saddened that he and his ilk perpetuate this hate and injustice.