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Online Adoption Agency Denies Service to Gays

By Deb Price, Creators Syndicate. Posted July 21, 2008.


The adoption website is brazenly violating anti-discrimination laws.



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I'll never understand....
Posted by: CatDad on Jul 21, 2008 3:17 PM   
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Many straight people engaging in rampant premarital sex (a lifestyle choice?) and having babies that they don't want....and when a gay person adopts them they go crazy....Many of the kids being adopted are special needs....and many are older and/or minorities.Sadly, no one else wants them...These kids would just be shuffled from one foster home after another without gay adoptive parents.

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» I agree with everything you say Posted by: chaoslegs
Adoption
Posted by: rg on Jul 21, 2008 5:59 PM   
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The pseudo-christians; nothing more than the American chapter of the Taliban, are no different and no less damaging than the fanatics of 9/11.

They're not doing this out of a compassionate calling, or a sense of patriotism; they do it line their pockets and spread their satanic agenda of hate.

""We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another." - Jonathan Swift

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I have a secret...
Posted by: chaoslegs on Jul 22, 2008 6:00 PM   
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...shh don't tell.

Actually do tell it far and wide.

There are a few websites that are open to GLBT prospective adoptive parents that feature thousand of people trying to create a family by adoption.

AdoptUSKids (I reject the rename AdoptUsKids, creepy)
Adoption Exchange
Northwest Adoption Exchange
Children Awaiting Parents

Well Florida children are not available because of a stupid law, but there are over 100,000 children at any given time in the US foster care system that have a case plan of adoption.

This isn't to say that this couple shouldn't be excluded from adopting infants. But remember adoption isn't just for babies. I know adults who were adopted at age 16, I know foster youth that have aged out of the system and care for their siblings. All children and youth deserve a permanent and safe family.

Lambda Legal and Human Rights Campaign are both great on fighting for equality to all families, straight or not.

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