Are these your Family Values?

Question

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070202/ap_o...

Taking away health insurance from stay-at-home parents and their kids? How, exactly, does this contribute to or protect the "sanctity of marriage" or benefit even a single family or child? EVERYONE knew this was the likely outcome when they voted Yes on Michigan's "marriage amendment"- every newspaper in the state predicted it- and though the "Family" groups denied this was their goal despite the carefully crafted language, they wasted no time at all filing lawsuits once it passed.

Of course, a straight couple that chooses to shack up without marrying, maybe have a few kids, can continue to receive domestic partner benefits. Yet a gay couple together for a decade raising kids rescued from a third-world orphanage cannot jointly adopt in Michigan, so the legal parent is stuck working full-time so the kid has health insurance.

Do you value appearances and "sending the right message" over real people and real families?

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The gist of the story is that, immediately following the gay marriage popular vote in Michigan, which effectively prevents the state from recognizing any relationship other than one between a man and a woman, our Republican attorney general declared second-parent adoptions by same-sex couples and same-sex partner benefits for any government employee in the state "unconstitutional". Since then, he's been using my tax dollars to try to take away health insurance from working families.

Answer 1

Sounds like evil republicans to me.

Answer 2

My husband & I are what they consider "middle class" we live in michigan & have a 2yr old daughter together, he also has a 10 yr old son from a previous marrage in which he pays $500 a month in child support, he works full time & his "so called benifits" are terrible to just put our daughter on his insurance is127.30 & to add me also would be 251.67 every 2 weeks. Co-pays are still outrages. I work part time & go to school yet my work doesn't pay any benifits. I have no insurance & have asthma & am border line diabetic. Our daughter ison the MI-Child program which we only quailify for b/c i took a bunch of days off work just to prove to them check stubs that we make under the qualifications.....I think we were over qualified by maybe $140...what a joke! So while many familys go without insurance who truley need it, there are prisoners on death row who get medicaid for free...just b/c they are in prison...everyone who goes to prison gets "free insurance" Why would someone on DEATH ROW need insurance or even have the option. The system is sof.u.c.k.e.d. On another subject of prison population, the jurors who seek the dealth penalty on the murders & then the judge give them life without porole...I meanserious what the point to that? If you take a life & plead guilty to it then you should have your life taken within 30 days of conviction! Whats the point of sitting on death row for 10 years+ wasting tax payers $$ on medicaid for their sorry a.s.s.es........something needs to be done....& 1 voice just is not strong enough.

Answer 3

Allowing same-sex couples to marry and adopt WITHOUT restrictions would be the only "family values" I can support. Any US citizen who supports the separation of church and state should support this too, since marriage rights are given by and adminsitered by the STATE. Religion should have no say in who gets such rights.

Maintaining a status of "separate but equal" with "civil unions" is also not acceptable.

Note- your link does not work. Please tell us the gist of the story.

Answer 4

Where do you think children would come from if there were none to adopt and the family values were back where they should be, as the bible tells us? The Gay couple might be really good individuals and good parents, that is not an option in the Bible for man to make their own opinion law. No I don't believe a couple should be able to live together no matter how long male, female it doesn't matter. I believe children should not be punished for adults decisions. Good Luck

Answer 5

I don't understand how alllowing gay marriage would be hurting families. They always say that they want to protect the marriage between a man and woman but half of those end in divorce. So whats next? Banning divorce? When will it stop?

Answer 6

I believe in the American ideal of freedom. This means you should be free to love whoever you love, as long as they are over 18. People willing to adopt children and give them a loving home should be supported and appreciated. All these kids want is a home. Would everyone who opposes these families please stand up and adopt an extra kid? And if you oppose abortion, please get in line to work on a federal school breakfast program.

Answer 7

hasn't this country always valued appearances more than real people? Remember when Quayle had a fit because Murphy Brown became TV's frist single mother?

Answer 8

I think you have a raw deal. Religion is only the excuse not the reason. Equality in America is a long, long, long, way away.

Answer 9

Everyone should have access to insurance and hospital visiting rights....that's completely unrelated to sexual orientation and marriage anyway.

Answer 10

agreed