Thursday, June 02, 2005
Culture of Lives Not Worth Living
For those of you wondering, the title of this post refers to a phrase used by eugenics proponents in the days when eugenics was considered acceptable: "lives not worth living". You'll see where that comes in in a moment.
Oh, look. These people are adopting unused embryos to raise as their own children (ganked from AMERICABlog). That's so sweet and not at all weird... right?
"With another program, to be honest with you, they could have been adopted by lesbian parents, and I'm totally against that," said Mr. Deacon, 35. [snip] On their forms, they said the adopting family must be conservative Christians and, ideally, include a stay-at-home mother.
Nope; not creepy at all. Just a government program that allows people to say that potential families are disqualified due to homosexuality or religious belief. You see those every day.
I don't know what's more outrageous: that Bush is pushing a program that allows people to enforce bigotry against others, or that the New York Times is reporting it like it's nothing special.
Oh, look. These people are adopting unused embryos to raise as their own children (ganked from AMERICABlog). That's so sweet and not at all weird... right?
"With another program, to be honest with you, they could have been adopted by lesbian parents, and I'm totally against that," said Mr. Deacon, 35. [snip] On their forms, they said the adopting family must be conservative Christians and, ideally, include a stay-at-home mother.
Nope; not creepy at all. Just a government program that allows people to say that potential families are disqualified due to homosexuality or religious belief. You see those every day.
I don't know what's more outrageous: that Bush is pushing a program that allows people to enforce bigotry against others, or that the New York Times is reporting it like it's nothing special.
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Dude, here in TX the state legislature tried to pass a bill prohibiting GLB couples (or singles, for that matter) from becoming foster parents. And not only that, any of them who were foster parents already would have to GIVE THE KIDS BACK, no matter how long they had been raising those children.
The measure failed, thank goodness, but not before getting scarily far along in the process.
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The measure failed, thank goodness, but not before getting scarily far along in the process.
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