Should Republicans be allowed to adopt?

February 24, 2006

Earlier this month, a far-right Republican state lawmaker in Ohio introduced a measure that would prohibit gay adoption. This week, a Dem state senator decided to make a point — by unveiling a proposal barring Republicans from being adoptive parents.

State Sen. Robert Hagan sent out e-mails to fellow lawmakers late Wednesday night, stating that he intends to “introduce legislation in the near future that would ban households with one or more Republican voters from adopting children or acting as foster parents.” […]

Hagan said his “tongue was planted firmly in cheek” when he drafted the proposed legislation. However, Hagan said that the point he is trying to make is nonetheless very serious.

Hagan wrote in his mock proposal that “credible research” shows that adopted children raised in Republican households are more at risk for developing “emotional problems, social stigmas, inflated egos, and alarming lack of tolerance for others they deem different than themselves and an air of overconfidence to mask their insecurities.”

Does Hagan have any real evidence to support the claims? Of course not — but he has just as much credible proof as the conservatives who insist that gay parents are detrimental to children.

So far, Hagan’s proposal has no co-sponsors. But then again, once people realize the way Republicans aggressively recruit the young and expose them to bizarre materials (Rush Limbaugh, Ayn Rand), I think the ban on GOP adoption has a real shot.

Hagan should have included the increased likelihood of a child in a Republican household being deliberately or accidentally shot because of the increased probability of the presence of a handgun.

  • We should also ban the adoption by left-handed parents as they might recruit their adopted children to left-handedness.

  • just have to take a little issue with Ayn Rand being included in the bizarre readings list. I’m pretty liberal, and disagree with a lot of what “objectivists” believe as far as governement regulations and total free market strategies go, but “The Fountainhead” is an incredible book about being true to yourself and fighting against the forces of conformity and ignorance. It also shows how communism and theocracy are really the same thing, subjugating the power of the individual for some mystical higher power (state or religion). it all depends on how you interpret it, i guess.

  • My hope is that both bills are brought to the floor in October, should help secure Ohio in the “Red” column.

  • JimBOB, Please! You are exposing my plan. Now I will never be able to make my other daughter left handed. Darn! stuck at a measly 50% success rate. 😉

  • Gotta agree with montanapat. Ayn Rand is no Rush Limbaugh. Far from it. These neocons might fashion themselves to be John Galts but they’re really just Wesley Mouches.

    I’m not sure Republicans are old enough to vote–emotionally and intellectualy. So there might be a legal issue there too.

  • Stephanie Miller (Air America … actually Jones Radio) claims she was abandoned by wolves and raised by Republicans (she actually is the daughter of Barry Goldwater’s running mate, William Miller).

    Those Republicans, anyway, didn’t do bad as parents (maybe inoculative learnng?): She’s very liberal and very, very funny.

  • Phylis Schafley’s son is gay,

    Dick Cheney’s daughter is gay,

    And these are the people who tell us how we should be raising our children? Assuming as they say that it’s all nurture and not nature, they certainly seem to have it wrong.

    Thank you, Phylis, but no! My daughter is 18, not yet an unwed mother (knock on wood) and as far as all indications show, straight. And we managed it without any of Ms Schafley’s advice.

  • Also, there’s an increased chance that offspring of republicans will themselves be republicans.

    So there you go.

  • Well – like the bumper sticker says:

    FOCUS ON YOUR OWN DAMN FAMILY!

    And what was the other one? Oh yeah:

    DON’T PRAY IN MY SCHOOL & I WON’T THINK IN YOUR CHURCH.

  • This is an excellent idea. After all, Republicanism is a life-style choice, and it is one that is inflicting great harm on our nation and the world. They should not be allowed to indoctrinate innocent young people into their deviant ways.

  • Thanks for the laugh, montanapat.

    Ayn (rhymes with “swine”) Rand’s “The Fountainhead” is right-wing wankery of the first order.

    Of course, anyone who’s capable of calling it “an incredible book about being true to yourself and fighting against the forces of conformity and ignorance” is pretty gifted at wankery in his own right.

  • I wish I could remember exactly what Stewart Brand (Whole Earth Catalog) said about Ayn Rand’s books. Something along the lines of “inside this pile of shit there are some nuggets of pure gold.”
    Bathwater meet baby.

  • Does Hagan have any real evidence to support the claims? Of course not — but he has just as much credible proof as the conservatives who insist that gay parents are detrimental to children.

    The entire Bush administration is solid evidence that growing up Republican is detrimental to your moral and intellectual health. It should be considered a form of child abuse to place a fosterling with such people.

  • Republicans take in foster kids? Knock me over with a feather! I thought they just adopted caucasian babies, never revealing it until the kid stumbles accross the papers while trying to find vaccination records to attach to his or her Georgetown application.

  • Actually, research shows that there is a 38% greater chance of a child being gay if he is raised in a conservative household. Look at Newt’s sister, Cheney’s daughter and many other conservatives. That’s what’s so great is that they are creating their own worst fears.

  • Thanks for the laugh. I can’t wait for the day when the “Mighty Republican House of Cards” comes falling down around them all.

  • Oh my gosh, but some of my best friends are….
    Republican, or was it gay, no… it was both!
    The Log Cabin Republicans!

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