Tony Mauro has a column up about the Lofton case I mentioned a few days ago. The ACLU is asking the Supreme Court to hear this case challenging the Florida law that bans gays from adopting children, the only law of its kind in the nation. The case involves a gay couple who have taken in six children, all high risk, from infancy and raised them successfully as a family. Mauro notes, as I did, that all of the leading child welfare organizations are on the side of the plaintiffs and argue that the law inhibits the ability to place children into stable families.
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Tony Mauro's column is good, but it is a rather sterile discussion of some very real human issues that should be not be ignored.
The web site http://www.lethimstay.com describes the human issues in some detail.
On the other hand, I should note--sarcastically of course--that more than a few white folks in Florida apparently don't give a tinker's damn about what happens to Nigrah kids, and, apparently, more than a few Nigrah adults don't want white folks raising Nigrah kids. It should be evident from the lethimstay website that the kids are Nigrahs and the prospective adoptive parents are white.
Look, as long as white folks don't care about what happens to Nigrah kids, and Nigrahs don't want Nigrah kids raised by white folks, why should I care what happens to the Nigrah kids?
End of utter and complete SARCASM.
Tony Mauro's column is good, but it is a rather sterile discussion of some very real human issues that should be not be ignored. The web site http://www.lethimstay.com describes the human issues in some detail.
I agree, raj, and I've linked to that site before. I think it's a great site because it really does put a human face on it. I hope that people will realize that this really is a family, just like the one I grew up in. The fact that it's headed by a gay couple doesn't really change anything important. The sooner people realize that it's not about "them" because they are "us", the sooner the whole issue will go away.