Won't Somebody Please Think Of The Children??!

I posted last week about how Republicans all over the country are once transparently using anti-gay sentiment for political purposes in an election year. Instead of gay marriage (sooo 2004!), they're fighting against gay adoption now. Those homos will sneak their cooties into the kids' Cheerios, dammnit!

One such state where an anti-gay adoption bill has been proposed is Ohio. State Senator Robert Hagan has proposed his own bill (which would bar Republicans from adopting) to expose the silliness and bigotry of that bill. Politics1.com has a summary of this-

State Senator Robert Hagan (D-Ohio) says he will introduce legislation to ban Republican couples from adopting children. According to Hagan, "credible research'' shows that adopted children raised in GOP households are more at risk for developing "emotional problems, social stigmas, inflated egos, and alarming lack of tolerance for others they deem different than themselves and an air of overconfidence to mask their insecurities." Hagan agrees there is no scientific evidence backing his claims about Republican parents -- just, as Hagan notes, there is none backing State Representative Ron Hood's (R) bill banning gay parents from adopting. Hood claims children purportedly suffer from emotional "harm" when they are adopted by gay couples. Hagen admits he created his proposal to mock Hood's proposed ban on gay adoption in a way that people would see the "blatantly discriminatory and extremely divisive" nature of the bill. The GOP House leadership does not support Hood's proposal.

Good for Hagan. Hopefully even more Democrats will be willing to so publically call these anti-gay bills out for what they are- hate legislation. We can't afford to let the Republicans market intolerance as a 'value' again this year.

See also the Akron Beacon-Journal: Plan would bar Ohio adoptions by GOP