Jeb Bush’s War on Gay Adoption

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Jeb Bush’s War on Gay Adoption

by Betsy Woodruff at the Daily Beast

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/05/22/jeb-bush-s-war-on-gay-adoption.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+thedailybeast%2Farticles+%28The+Daily+Beast+-+Latest+Articles%29

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When Jessie Odell asked Jeb Bush to let him and his partner adopt a child 15 years ago, all he got was silence. But his pleas did no go unheard, and despite the governor’s best efforts, Odell is now a father.

His story is one of many that play out in the email exchanges between Bush and his staff—which the Florida Center for Investigative Reporting recently made searchable—and it gives an intriguing view into how the then-Florida governor struggled to explain his opposition to adoption rights for LGBT people.

It also shows that Bush and his top advisors were acutely aware of internal inconsistencies in the state’s policy on same-sex adoption and foster families.

In 1977, Florida became the only state in the country to proactively ban gays and lesbians from adopting. Thanks in part to the dogged anti-gay activism of former Miss Oklahoma Anita Bryant, the state implemented legislation saying sexual orientation alone could disqualify prospective parents from adopting.



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1. According to the documentary Survival Of The Fabulous, gay men are born to help their sisters raise

and care for children. So Jeb is scientifically wrong on the adoption issues not just morally wrong. But it involves evolution and science so I'm sure Jeb will never get it.

http://www.cbc.ca/natureofthings/episodes/survival-of-the-fabulous

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2. Jeb is a throwback to a time most would not want to live, but he seems to think it's cool. The guy

is a damn backward fool not only on this, but on many topics.