Religious right selfishly turns boy into pawn in gay-adoption battle

[Hugabear]

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/os-scott-maxwell-gay-adoption-020310-20100202,0,1037988.column

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And to make their point about just how frightening this ruling was, the Policy Council included a photograph of the couple — a strange and androgynous-looking duo, one with bleached skin and both with mullet haircuts. The couple look so odd (you literally can't tell whether they are male or female) that one might wonder how any judge could place a young child with such a disturbing-looking duo.

Except the judge didn't.

The abnormal-looking couple that the Policy Council chose to illustrate this story is not the same couple granted the right to adopt the child.

No, the two-woman couple awarded custody of the 1-year-old — South Florida trade-show executive Vanessa Alenier and her partner, Melanie Leon — look more like J.Crew models: all-American with catalogue clothes and smiles.



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Brilliant column in today's Orlando Sentinel. I have a strong hunch that the "couple" that this far-right group used doesn't even exist, that they had some of their members dress up for it.

[asdjrocky]

1. Wow. I really have no words.

Okay, here's some. What about baring false witness?

[Hugabear]

2. I brought up gluttony as an example

The Bible clearly states that gluttony is a sin. Yet you never see these far-right assholes demanding laws barring obese couples from adopting children. Shit, you can go into any buffet restaurant on a Sunday afternoon and see these hypocrites stuffing their faces.

They have an odd obsession with homosexuality.

[asdjrocky]

3. When I was watching Washington Journal this morning

they asked if gays should be allowed to serve in the military and then opened the phone.

I never heard so many man consumed by the idea of taking showers next to someone that could be gay. No joke, at least 6 of the 12 or so calls had to do with showers. I had to wonder how on earth any of these people got through high school.

[Tempest]

4. Bearing false witness

What the group did was nothing short of grotesque.

[tanyev]

5. This photo is on a list called 15 Horrifying Couples that Shouldn't Procreate

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=&imgrefurl=http://www.uniquescoop.com/2009/10/15-horrifying-couples-that-shouldnt.html&usg=__gqcR1081wNSRBFnljiRJWa_x0U4=&h=400&w=389&sz=23&hl=en&start=2&um=1&itbs=1&tbnid=HZzfb4A_mg3ZwM:&tbnh=124&tbnw=121&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dugly%2Bmullet%2Bcouple%26hl%3Den%26rls%3Dcom.microsoft:en-us%26sa%3DN%26um%3D1


Lots of other links to it on Google. I wonder if that's where the Policy Council found it.