I can't believe how far to the right McCain is going. He has said that gays shouldn't be able to adopt. Seriously?! I know Florida is a swing state and all, but they are the only state in the nation with a blanket policy.
I just think people are so ignorant some times. What would a no-adoption policy have? Would it be retroactive? Would it apply to second parent adoptions?
Whatever happened to the "Best Interest of the Child" anyway? Is our national foster care system that cannot find safe, secure homes or foster care placements, often subjecting to children to deplorable conditions, violence, and change in homes really a better options? And what about the gay kids? Should they not be adoptable? Or should we just mandate conversion therapy - screw the fact that it doesn't work and every mental and physical health organization has a policy against it - we got to "fix" them while we can.
Ugh! Seriously, why can't we just try to do right by each other? Why can't we just respect each other even if we don't understand each other?
Monday, July 14, 2008
Friday, July 04, 2008
Happy Fourth of July
As the celebrations for the fourth of July send us way back to declaring independence, I'd just like to pay honor to Justice Thurgood Marshall and the wisdom in his comments about the Founders: "I [do not] find the wisdom, foresight and sense of justice exhibited by the Framers particularly profound." "To the contrary, the government devised was defective from the start…requiring several amendments, a civil war and momentous social transformation to attain the system of … we hold as fundamental today."
So here's a little "Thank You" not to the people who have fought in wars that often have very little to do with our own freedom, or even making the lives better for others, but to all the people who have fought, often peacefully via civil disobedience, how have made the U.S. a place where I, as a woman, have a right to vote, where my brother could marry the woman he's been in love with since they were in high school (they're an interracial couple), where we had a recent race within the Democratic party to see who would be our next president, a white woman or a man of color.
Here's to all of the people who have fought and sacrificed so much to try to actually make the U.S. a place that we all can be proud of.
So here's a little "Thank You" not to the people who have fought in wars that often have very little to do with our own freedom, or even making the lives better for others, but to all the people who have fought, often peacefully via civil disobedience, how have made the U.S. a place where I, as a woman, have a right to vote, where my brother could marry the woman he's been in love with since they were in high school (they're an interracial couple), where we had a recent race within the Democratic party to see who would be our next president, a white woman or a man of color.
Here's to all of the people who have fought and sacrificed so much to try to actually make the U.S. a place that we all can be proud of.
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