NO QUEER FOSTER PARENTS IN TEXAS

Well, thank God for the new bill that the state of Texas is working on!! It says that fags can't be foster parents! YAY!!! Now all the kids that have no parents in the state of Texas will have even fewer opportunities to find parents!!

HOO-ZAH!

This means that even more kids will grow up without the care and nurturing parents give kids. They MAY even drop out of school and become criminals!! Wouldn't that be neat?!? Then they could get arreseted, convicted and thrown in jail! Then they'd be living off of the public dime!

All because a bunch of Texans couldn't follow God's rules!!

Those damn homos deserve to burn in hell for wanting to raise kids!!

We are a culture of life, ya know!!

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Sorry, had to get that out of my system.

It is true, of course--the Texas House of Reps is working on a bill that would allow the state to refuse gay couples who were interested in being foster parents. Here's a clip from an article from www.AFP.com available at News.Yahoo.com:

If the bill gains approval from the Texas Senate, the state will be allowed to investigate the backgrounds of current foster parents and remove children living in non-heterosexual households.

All future foster parents will be required to disclose their sexual preference on an application form, a legislative aide said.

The move was denounced by local activists.

"More than 43,000 gay and lesbian couples in Texas are forming families and raising children, and this attack on LBGT (lesbian, bisexual, gay and transgendered) Texans will tear apart our families and remove our children from loving, stable families," the Lesbian/Gay Rights Lobby of Texas said in a statement.

Well, color me conservative, but I don't see what's so "stable" about a Transgendered parent, but on the other hand, it's not my place to judge. To me, I don't see them as transgendered so much as I see them as a man or a woman. I don't care what they used to be, just so long as they stick to what they are now. THAT creates stability. Constantly wearing your ex-gender on your sleeve creates instability in a world where genders are rarely changed.

Aaaaanyway, I think we can chalk (chock?) this one up to the stranglehold Christianity has on America right now. States making choices based on 2000 year-old rules that even 2000 years ago ignored basic realities about humanity.

So, let's hear it for old skool idiocy that keeps kids parentless in a world that desperately needs more parents!!From www.AFP.com and News.Yahoo.com:

Texas bans gay foster parents

The Texas House of Representatives passed a bill banning homosexuals, bisexuals and transsexuals from being foster parents.

If the bill gains approval from the Texas Senate, the state will be allowed to investigate the backgrounds of current foster parents and remove children living in non-heterosexual households.

All future foster parents will be required to disclose their sexual preference on an application form, a legislative aide said.

The move was denounced by local activists.

"More than 43,000 gay and lesbian couples in Texas are forming families and raising children, and this attack on LBGT (lesbian, bisexual, gay and transgendered) Texans will tear apart our families and remove our children from loving, stable families," the Lesbian/Gay Rights Lobby of Texas said in a statement.

"In an already over-burdened foster care system, the effect of reducing the pool of foster parents does nothing to protect Texas children," it added.

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