Via Keith Olbermann, one of my media gods (I can't blog about Mark Morford EVERY day), from HuffingtonPost.com:
If Ohio State Sen. Robert Hagan's proposal becomes law, Republicans would be barred from adopting. Wednesday night, Hagan wrote a mock proposal to counter one introduced by State Rep. Ron Hood (R-Ashville) aimed at banning gay adoption.
Hagan said that "credible research" shows that adopted children raised in Republican households are more at risk for developing "emotional problems, social stigmas, inflated egos, and alarming lack of tolerance for others they deem different than themselves and an air of overconfidence to mask their insecurities."
For his part, Rep. Hood's legislation, backed by eight other conservative Republican lawmakers, would prefer 22,000 Ohio children to languish in foster care than be adopted or fostered by gay parents.
One of the more pathetic things about this story is that if you read the comments left by readers of the Huffington Post, some of them think Hagen's proposal is *genuine*, and they talk about how unfair it is. Not only don't they understand that Hagen's actions are parody, they don't understand the relationship between what Hagen is proposing vs. what Hood is proposing.
The world is becoming a scary, stupid place.
Posted by: Leigh-Ann | 01 March 2006 at 02:12 AM