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Title: Virginia Moves forward To Let Agencies Bar Gay Adoption
Source: AssociatedPress
URL Source: http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/201 ... b/09/us-virginia-gay-adoption/
Published: Feb 9, 2012
Author: staff writers
Post Date: 2012-02-09 18:23:09 by Murron
Keywords: None
Views: 34271
Comments: 87

Virginia Moves forward To Let Agencies Bar Gay Adoption

The Virginia state Senate passed legislation Thursday allowing private adoption agencies to deny placements that conflict with their religious or moral beliefs, including opposition to homosexuality.

The mostly party-line 22-18 vote virtually ensures the Republican-backed bill will become law. The House of Delegates has an identical version of the bill and Republican Gov. Bob McDonnell says he will sign it. Virginia would become just the second state with such a law, which supporters said was modeled after North Dakota's.

State Sen. Jeffrey McWaters, a Republican from Virginia Beach, said his "conscience clause" bill protects the religious rights of private child placement agencies, including dozens that contract with the state to provide foster care and adoption services.

"This is completely consistent with state and federal law," McWaters said. "It does not change who can or cannot adopt a child."

Sen. Adam Ebbin, D-Alexandria and the only openly gay member of the General Assembly, suggested all the talk about religious freedom is a smokescreen for discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered people.

"It has always been about denying LGBT Virginians the right to form families, no matter what we say," Ebbin said.

He said the bill will endanger gay and bisexual children, who make up a disproportionate share of youths awaiting a home, by allowing agencies to place them with parents opposed to homosexuality.

"This does not uphold anyone's moral principles," Ebbin said. "It's morally wrong."

Sen. John Edwards, D-Roanoke, said agencies that contract with the state should not be allowed to discriminate.

"You have a right to exercise religion as you see fit, but you don't have a right to impose it on someone else using state dollars," he said.

Sen. Mark Herring, D-Loudoun, said the bill conflicts with the principle that the best interest of the child is paramount.

"Neither the interests of the placement agency nor their beliefs should stand in the way," he said.

The Family Foundation of Virginia, which lobbied for the legislation, lauded the Senate's action.

"The passage of conscience protection for private child placement agencies by a bipartisan majority in the Senate is a tremendous victory for religious liberty and for the thousands of children and families around Virginia that are served by these agencies," Victoria Cobb, the foundation's president, said in a written statement.

The Child Welfare League of America had sent a letter to senators earlier in the week urging them to reject the bill, saying it would just make it more difficult to place the approximately 1,300 Virginia children waiting for a home.

"These children have been through so much already," Christine James-Brown, president of the organization, wrote. "It is cruel to deny them a secure home with a qualified family that happens to differ from the religious or moral beliefs held by a particular agency."

If either the House or the Senate approves the other chamber's bill unchanged, it will go to the governor. If either chamber amends the bill _ which seems unlikely after the Senate rejected a string of amendments proposed by Democrats on Wednesday _ it could be sent to conference committee to resolve the differences.

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#6. To: Murron (#0)

It is wrong to deliberately place a child in a home lacking either male or female influences.

Also, male children should never be placed with lesbians - who uniformly take out their man-hate on them - or with gay males, who very often will raise them for the purpose of molestation.

thoughtomator  posted on  2012-02-09   18:51:25 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#9. To: thoughtomator (#6)

Also, male children should never be placed with lesbians - who uniformly take out their man-hate on them - or with gay males, who very often will raise them for the purpose of molestation.

Where the fuck do you come up with your drivel? Do you just make it up?

meguro  posted on  2012-02-10   2:20:10 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#10. To: meguro (#9)

It's called common sense and those who do not have homosexual mental problems and are not brainwashed by Marxism can see it as self-evident.

Giving children to homosexuals is offensive to Nature itself - which, it should be noted, gives no children to homosexuals.

thoughtomator  posted on  2012-02-10   2:42:22 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#11. To: thoughtomator (#10) (Edited)

It's called common sense

It's called homophobic drivel.

meguro  posted on  2012-02-12   5:33:26 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#13. To: meguro (#11)

It's called homophobic drivel.

There is no such thing as a homophobe. It is just a word some insecure faggots made up to try and make themselves feel better.

You are two things though.

You are a normaphobe and a pussyphobe.

A K A Stone  posted on  2012-02-12   8:33:26 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#18. To: A K A Stone (#13)

"There is no such thing as a homophobe."

Racism is built on irrational fear and ignorance whose worst manifestation is the desire to force others to surrender to the irrational fear and hatred blighting the soul and spirit of those suffering from it.

The same is true concerning the wedge issue of hatred and persecution of gay people. To be homophobic is nothing to be proud of, and speaks only of the worst part of anyone advocating such an irrational lynch mob attitude towrd others.

Ferret Mike  posted on  2012-02-12   12:38:39 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#22. To: Ferret Mike (#18)

Racism

Pay attention to the conversation. We aren't talking about racism.

A K A Stone  posted on  2012-02-12   13:27:08 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#23. To: A K A Stone (#22)

"Pay attention to the conversation. We aren't talking about racism."

Pay attention to the fact I used it as an example to compare a similar irrational hatred and wedge issue.

Ferret Mike  posted on  2012-02-12   13:35:20 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#24. To: Ferret Mike (#23)

Pay attention to the fact I used it as an example to compare a similar irrational hatred and wedge issue.

There are no similarities. One is a skin color that you are born of. One is an action one decides to take.

A K A Stone  posted on  2012-02-12   13:36:53 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#26. To: A K A Stone (#24) (Edited)

One os born with a predilection that imprints them with a desire for a same gender partner. It is proven by well vetted research that it is hardly a choice, it is an expression of inherent nature of many people.

This is why so called 'cures' of people who have no control over what fires their rocket than you do fail miserably. 'Cured' people generally return to their inherent preference of a sexual partner; regardless of any desire to get them to do otherwise.

Ferret Mike  posted on  2012-02-12   13:45:40 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#29. To: Ferret Mike (#26)

One os born with a predilection that imprints them with a desire for a same gender partner. It is proven by well vetted research

Mike you are stupid. You just read that in a book and it fit your mentally deranged view of the world. So you adopted it as your talking point. It isn't true. The net effect of your words are to try and recruit kids into a perversion by saying that it is ok and natural. You are a sicko.

A K A Stone  posted on  2012-02-12   13:49:23 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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#33. To: A K A Stone (#29)

I didn't 'just read a book.' Society is changing, and being homosexual is no longer considered an affliction based on very extensive and well conducted research.

I am aware of this research as are those who are successfully working for change.

Keep your head in the sand like and ostrich and feed your irrational hatred all you want, but in the end it will get you nowhere.

Ferret Mike  posted on  2012-02-12 13:53:32 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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