One positive sign today: Chinese activism against the disease’s spread seems to be
getting stronger, despite continual setbacks. Hopefully, that trend will continue.
I encourage you to check out the MSNBC slideshow on the main page if you have a minute. However, there is no direct link, so catch it while it’s there. Below is the image of the White House tribute from 2007-the slideshow has the one from this year.
Wish it didn’t have to be done through the courts, but I’ll take what I can get.
From CNN:
A Florida circuit judge Tuesday struck down a 31-year-old state law that prevents gays and lesbians from adopting children, allowing a North Miami man to adopt two half-brothers he and his partner have raised as foster children since 2004.
“There is no question, the blanket exclusion of gay applicants defeats Florida’s goal of providing dependent children a permanent family through adoption,” Judge Cindy S. Lederman wrote in her 53-page ruling.
“The best interests of children are not preserved by prohibiting homosexual adoption.”
The state attorney general’s office has appealed the decision.
The article cites a few organizations saying that homosexual adoption doesn’t harm children, but that should be fairly obvious. We’re simply dealing with people who don’t want children to grow up accepting of homosexual relationships as normal (or oppose any kind of government acceptance, no matter how practical). The reason I find this case absurd as a conservative Christian is that this involves a balancing of values: between the accessibility and availability of adoption and the opposition to homosexuality. How in God’s name (and I literally mean, in the name of God) could someone who calls themselves “pro-life” put their opposition to a personal lifestyle over the best alternative to abortion that can be offered? Why not ban Hindus or Jews from adoption then–surely they might teach children un-Christian beliefs as well?
I just wanted to see how to use this ish.
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