Ohioans sometimes get it right
From this week's Cleveland Scene:
If a bill proposed last week by Senator Robert Hagan (D-Youngstown) passes, Republicans in Ohio will be barred from adopting children.
If it sounds like a joke, it's meant to be, but Hagan went so far as to ask fellow senators to co-sponsor it. "I'm serious enough that I ran it through the process," he says.
The stunt is a response to Republican legislation that seeks to ban gays from adopting, an idea Hagan calls "homophobic and immature."
The decision to target gays is particularly weird given that the state has 2,784 children awaiting adoption and another 19,430 in foster care, Hagan says. "I have no empirical or scientific evidence that Republicans are less able to raise a child, just as they have no scientific evidence that gays are less able to raise a child."
If a bill proposed last week by Senator Robert Hagan (D-Youngstown) passes, Republicans in Ohio will be barred from adopting children.
If it sounds like a joke, it's meant to be, but Hagan went so far as to ask fellow senators to co-sponsor it. "I'm serious enough that I ran it through the process," he says.
The stunt is a response to Republican legislation that seeks to ban gays from adopting, an idea Hagan calls "homophobic and immature."
The decision to target gays is particularly weird given that the state has 2,784 children awaiting adoption and another 19,430 in foster care, Hagan says. "I have no empirical or scientific evidence that Republicans are less able to raise a child, just as they have no scientific evidence that gays are less able to raise a child."
posted by MTL at 5:08 PM
1 Comments:
Brilliant post. It's about time the Ohio Dems started playing ball.
-SP
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