The idea of preventing Kansas gays and lesbians from adopting children hasn’t gotten much traction in Topeka leading up to the 2006 legislative session. That’s mostly because it would be difficult to do without a ban on all single-parent adoptions — which would dramatically reduce the pool of adoptive parents and leave more children languishing in foster care. But a gay-adoption ban is unlikely to go away quietly as an issue for the social conservatives who successfully championed a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage last spring. One sobering new item on their to-do list, as attributed by the Lawrence Journal-World to the Rev. Terry Fox, pastor of Wichita’s Immanuel Baptist Church: also prohibiting gays and lesbians from providing child care.
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Wichita’s Immanuel Baptist Church should immediatly begin paying taxes and become registered as an official lobbying organization.
If they don’t want to do that they should stay the H.E. double hockey sticks out of Kansas politics!!!!
Tracy, you read my mind. By IRS rules, Political Action Committees raise funds, get volunteers, and work to influence legislation. Sounds like that church to me..they are nothing more than a thinly disguised PAC and need to pay taxes like one.
Quit with the tax free land for their playgrounds, quit with the tax free donations. It is a PAC and needs to be treated as one.
How can we get the IRS to pay attention to this “church”???
Right On Ray!I guess we need to find the right judge to put a stopper in their never ending flow of political B.S.And I don’t say this because of ‘gay rights’, I could care less about that.Churches should stick to all things spiritual and leave politics alone. If they feel that homosexuality is wrong they should try to include them in their fold with loving tolerance, not try to take their inalienable God-given rights. Nuff’ said.
The problem with a ban on gay adoption is simple–it’s discriminatory, it’s unconstitutional, and it’s unAmerican.
Other than that, it’s a great idea (heavy sarcasm).
The American Taliban aren’t going to win this one.
Everything is a cause to you guys! How about focusing on the welfare of the child? Although I don’t favor a ban on gay adoption, I do favor discrimination, based on the kids’ best interests.
Studies have shown that the best environment for a child to grow up is a two parent home with a Mom and a Dad. That is the ideal. That type of arrangement should be given absolute prioity, if available.
I agree though that banning gay adoptions would be too hard to enforce and might result in unconstitutional invasion of privacy. Better set aside extra money for therapy for the kids.
Sure thing, Outthere.
So let’s ban divorce.
It’s pretty hard to argue that two gay parents are worse than ONE non-gay parent who failed in their marriage committment.
But I’m sure Terry Fox can justify condemning to hell “sodomites” while he turns a blind eye to the equally bad sin of “adulterous” divorce.
Discriminatory, unconstitutional, unAmerican? Since when have social conservatives let little things like that stop them? Now I’d be the first to agree that a 2 parent home with a mother and father would be best for children, however, this isn’t a perfect world. Refuse to let gays adopt? Ban gays from child care? This is total BS! But I look for it to be a big issue in the next legislative session. Fox, Wright, et al will see to it. We should be proud for carrying out the Fred Phelps agenda (sarcasm). This is just another opportunity for Kansas conservatives to show how hateful and bigoted they can be. This is another hot-button issue to turn out the base. It’s also the kind of politics that gets certian BOE members and radical conservatives re-elected.
Gay couples would probably expose kids to Sponge Bob and the Teletubbies which would turn innocent children into, well immoral and unfit to parent adults.
Next thing you know they would have a great job on HGTV or some other Satan sent cable program.God forbid!
Some of the best parents I know happen to be gay. Many of the worst parents I know happen to straight. Sexual preference has nothing to do with someone’s ability to parent and child.
I mean “parent a child”
And I intended my comments as sarcasm.
I know, I was just making a comment.
Da,I just got an invitation to the wedding of one of the most decent young men I know. His mother, a well-known lesbian activist and a long-time friend, has added “doting mother-in-law” to her list of roles.
Jed, my nephew is gay and has been with his partner for over 17 years.They were wonderful parents and now they’re wonderful grandparents. You couldn’t meet two nicer guys, they both sing in the church choir! They have a strong belief in God and are more Christian than most Christians I know.