Evangelicals want to limit adoption to the "one man, one woman" ideal, and prevent gays and lesbians from even acting as foster parents. Where it's still legal, they throw up roadblocks to discourage it, like stopping second-parent adoption and opposing domestic partner benefits. But what about the thousands of kids currently being raised in group homes and for-profit foster homes, many of them minorities, older or problem kids, terminally ill, or seriously disabled with little or no hope of ever being adopted by an "ideal family"? And, this is just in the U.S.; millions more in Africa and elsewhere have been orphaned by the AIDS epidemic or abandoned by their birth parents as an alternative to starvation.
I'd like to hear some real alternatives to this problem from those that have knowingly and deliberately sacrificed these children's lives for the sake of "sending the right message".
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070112/people_nm/madonna_d
2007-01-12
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