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nebris ]: A Miami judge approves the adoption of a foster child by a lesbian couple, making it the third court-approved adoption by gay parents in Florida since 2008, despite a state ban on gay adoption still technically on the books (but currently in legal limbo).
Unsurprisingly, the Florida Family Policy Council of Orlando is unhappy about this judicial activism* and ran the story in its newsletter, complete with photo of the couple who won the case.
Just one problem, notes Scott Maxwell of the Orlando Sentinel:
See what they did there?
Also unsurprisingly, FFPC President John Stemberger is unhappy with Maxwell’s biased reporting, and claims the picture was a mistake that his own people discovered too late, and NOT an attempt to make Teh Gayz look scary.
He adds that the picture is from a different Florida gay adoption case from 2008, and that they got the photo from an article on that case here, so it’s still relevant.
Just one problem (aside from why the FFPC would use a photo from a different case in the first place): the case in that article was about Martin Gill, who actually looks like this.
So what am I to think, except that FFPC was less interested in running a pic of the actual couple and more in running a pic of a completely unrelated couple who not only LOOK gay/lesbian, but SCARY gay/lesbian, if only because it caters to the stereotypes that FFPC newsletter readers expect when they think of Teh Gayz.
Which is why I find Stemberger’s “apology” to Vanessa Alenier and Melanie Leon for running the wrong pic somewhat disingenuous – not least because he’s demanding that Scott Maxwell apologize to HIM for reporting it in the first place.
Obviously, who you believe is likely pre-determined by yr current opinion of gay adoption. All I can add is that if the strength of yr argument relies on using the “wrong” picture as a scare tactic, then you got no argument.
And for the record (and it says a lot that I actually have to say this), the ability of any couple to raise a kid in a loving environment has nothing to do with the way the parents look. Richard and Mayumi “Mr And Mrs Balloon Boy” Keene are the latest proof of that. For all we know, that SCARY GAY couple could be just as qualified to be parents as Vanessa and Melanie.
Once they lose the mullets, I mean. Because you do have to draw the line somewhere.
Mullets destroy the family,
This is dF
*DEFINITION: Judicial Activism = a term typically used by conservatives to describe any court ruling over a contentious sociopolitical issue in which the other side wins (because obviously if the judges were being fair and impartial, they'd rule in favor of conservatives every single time – I mean, what other explanation could there POSSIBLY be?).
nebris ]: A Miami judge approves the adoption of a foster child by a lesbian couple, making it the third court-approved adoption by gay parents in Florida since 2008, despite a state ban on gay adoption still technically on the books (but currently in legal limbo).Unsurprisingly, the Florida Family Policy Council of Orlando is unhappy about this judicial activism* and ran the story in its newsletter, complete with photo of the couple who won the case.
Just one problem, notes Scott Maxwell of the Orlando Sentinel:
See what they did there?
Also unsurprisingly, FFPC President John Stemberger is unhappy with Maxwell’s biased reporting, and claims the picture was a mistake that his own people discovered too late, and NOT an attempt to make Teh Gayz look scary.
He adds that the picture is from a different Florida gay adoption case from 2008, and that they got the photo from an article on that case here, so it’s still relevant.
Just one problem (aside from why the FFPC would use a photo from a different case in the first place): the case in that article was about Martin Gill, who actually looks like this.
So what am I to think, except that FFPC was less interested in running a pic of the actual couple and more in running a pic of a completely unrelated couple who not only LOOK gay/lesbian, but SCARY gay/lesbian, if only because it caters to the stereotypes that FFPC newsletter readers expect when they think of Teh Gayz.
Which is why I find Stemberger’s “apology” to Vanessa Alenier and Melanie Leon for running the wrong pic somewhat disingenuous – not least because he’s demanding that Scott Maxwell apologize to HIM for reporting it in the first place.
Obviously, who you believe is likely pre-determined by yr current opinion of gay adoption. All I can add is that if the strength of yr argument relies on using the “wrong” picture as a scare tactic, then you got no argument.
And for the record (and it says a lot that I actually have to say this), the ability of any couple to raise a kid in a loving environment has nothing to do with the way the parents look. Richard and Mayumi “Mr And Mrs Balloon Boy” Keene are the latest proof of that. For all we know, that SCARY GAY couple could be just as qualified to be parents as Vanessa and Melanie.
Once they lose the mullets, I mean. Because you do have to draw the line somewhere.
Mullets destroy the family,
This is dF
*DEFINITION: Judicial Activism = a term typically used by conservatives to describe any court ruling over a contentious sociopolitical issue in which the other side wins (because obviously if the judges were being fair and impartial, they'd rule in favor of conservatives every single time – I mean, what other explanation could there POSSIBLY be?).