More on McCain and adoption
I highlighted this awful McCain quote in this week's WFR:
I think that we've proven that both parents are important in the success of a family so, no I don't believe in gay adoption.
Wonk Room has the goods on just how extreme McCain's position is. Nearly every child welfare organization in the country opposes adoption bans against gay people (both couples and individuals).
McCain not only expressed his opposition to adoption by "gay couples"-as if that weren't bad enough. He said he wants "both parents" involved and therefore doesn't believe in "gay adoption." This approach rules out adoption by gay individuals-even though these adoptions are permitted in every state except Florida. In fact, it seems to rule out adoption by single heterosexuals too.
So basically only people exactly like John McCain could possibly make loving parents. What a jerk.
Also, given McCain's belief in forced-birth policies, shouldn't he want to encourage adoption, not limit it?
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Nevermind that Cindy McCain has pretty much raised all of their kids on her own since he's been in congress so long. No! We need BOTH parents involved! (Unless the father figure is a congressman, and the family is rich, then it's okay to have mom do all the work. Wait, no, it's always okay for mom to do all the work.)
Yeah, so this policy makes no sense at all. As my friends have all started having kids lately, I've been reading up on the politics of parenting. The state of the foster care system is atrocious; a social worker friend of mine confirms this. This is another example of conservative politics having nothing to do with the realities of some of the most vulnerable people in the US. The agenda of anti-gay bigotry is trumping reason, again.
Who raised McCain's kids from his first marriage?
I noted this in WFR as well. The comment is sort of scary, since, as we've noticed, it isn't AT ALL an indictment solely of gay adoption...
This position criticizes adoption by gay couples and single parents of any sexual orientation. It also criticizes PARENTING by these individuals, which goes beyond whether they should be legally "allowed" to obtain a child. Even so, they can never been the RIGHT kind of parents.
I wonder if this comment's wording was intentional. If so, it would do a lot to encourage even more restrictive policies regarding families in the US. Ugh, frightening.
That's funny. McCain's opponent in the presidential race wasn't raised like that and yet he seems to have turned out okay.
I love how he spews this crap and no one, not one reporter asks how his first wife and kids feel about him as a father?
It grates on my nerves that people like McShame, (who abandoned his first family for a younger, wealthier one) are held up as a paragons of family values by the Republican party. Disgusting!
I had a little fantasy in my head when I heard about his stance on what a true family needs.
As my fantasy goes, McCain gets pinned down and asked what he thinks about single family homes. Since he obviously feels that there must be both a male and a female in a house with a child, I want him asked whether he supports forced marriage of the single parent, or if he is rather for the removal of children from single parents. Cause that's where his logic is going.
Unless of course daddy is doing an 18 month tour in Iraq with risk of life and limbs, not being present at childbirth, leaving his young wife a defacto single parent and a potential widow. Then it's just honorable.
So, it's better to let children grow up going in & out of different foster homes, rather than being in a loving household with a single parent or 2 gay parents?
Ummmmmmmmmwhat?
So...parents who divorce are BOTH no longer fit to raise a child? Really John McCain? Then what's your excuse?