The Arkansas Supreme Court ruled unanimously Thursday that the state’s child welfare board cannot bar gays from becoming foster parents. As the court noted, there is no link between a parent’s sexual orientation and a child’s well-being, so “the driving force behind adoption of the regulations was not to promote the health, safety and welfare of foster children but rather based upon the board’s views of morality and its bias against homosexuals.”
Fortunately, a push last year in Kansas to prohibit gays from adopting foster children went nowhere in the Legislature. Kansas needs all the caring adoptive parents it can get.
Posted by Phillip Brownlee
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A parents sexual practices only effect the child if they are done within sight of the child. I do not mean showing a loving relationship, but the sexual acts themselves. I was shock twenty years ago when a ten y.o. girl came into my sister’s house carrying a “sex toy”. I was even more shocked when I learned that the child knew what it was for and how it was used. She had seen her father using it on himself and her mother in the front room while the girl was watching T.V. The point is that her parents were heterosexual, but they judgment was so wrong that it effected their daughter.
Adoption argument over whether gays should be allowed to adopt fails to address the real problem..It goes without saying that a child is better off in a loving home, straight, gay or even single parent.I am alone in wishing the world was perfect, but seeing it is not we should only do the best we can.If the choice was between a child having a loving home with someone with Aids, being in a loving home with a couple that is a different race then the child, a loving home with gay parents or being warehoused in a children’s shelter till they are eighteen. A loving home should win out every time!
There you go, making sense again. What kind of radical are you anyway?
Sexual orientation has nothing to do with he ability to love and nuture a child. If the heterosexuals could get their act together, there wouldn’t be so many kids in the foster care system in the first place.To deny a child a loving home because the potential foster parent is gay is both ignorant and cruel.
I HAVE SEEN children scarred for life by their parents extreme religious views and demands of strict military-like adherence to those views.
Until the 120,000 or so kids in the system have real, loving homes, the RR has nothing credible to say about either gay adoption or abortion!
A child that has been removed from their home is better off in a foster home. If that foster home happens to have a gay couple willing to do the job they are better off than a group home or an abusive home. This is about the child not about personal belief. Children need good homes. More people should open up their doors to help.
“Until the 120,000 or so kids in the system have real, loving homes, the RR has nothing credible to say about either gay adoption or abortion!”
Using your logic Jed, kids would be be better off dead than in the state system. Nice.
Out,Have you actually dealt with kids that have aged out of the system?
No, I haven’t Jed.
Are you implying that it would be best had they not been born?
There are over 500,000 kids in this country growing up in foster care. The need for good homes and freeing kids up to be adopted is critical. We also need to focus on what’s breaking families apart in the first place. I believe the drug and alcohol epidemeic in this country is a huge part of the problem.Abortion is not the answer, it just validates and encourages the belief that kids should be disposed of if unwanted.