Legislative Lesson: Bill would block Republican adoption

According to an article published by 365gay.com News, an Ohio State Senator has introduced a bill which would ban adoptions by Republicans.

The bill, introduced by Senator Robert Hagan (D-Youngstown), is meant partly as a joke and partly to send a message on how ridiculous some Republicans have been in their fervor to ban adoption by LGBT citizens.

According to the article:

In an email sent to fellow legislators, and obtained by Knight Ridder Newspapers, Hagan says he’s looking for co-sponsors 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.”

Earlier this month a bill to ban gays, bisexuals, and transgenderds from adopting was proposed by 10 far-right Republicans. It was introduced in the House this month by state Rep. Ron Hood (R-Ashville)Â

“We need to see what we are doing,” said Hagan, who called Hood’s proposed bill blatantly discriminatory and “homophobic.”

When Hood introduced his gay adoption ban he said that, “Studies have shown that the optimal setting to raise children in is a traditional setting with a mom and a dad.”

Hood claims that children raised in gay households are at “increased risk” of physical and emotional problem.

In Hagan’s email to fellow lawmaker’s he skewers Hood’s assertions, offering his own “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.”

Hagan admits that he knows his bill has no chance of ever reaching the floor. The chances of the bill passing are even lower. The same has been said about the bill on LGBT adoptions but the message against anti-LGBT discrimination is still being made.

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HaHa… I think Sen. Hagan is getting his message across. He uses the same (no)logic as the Republicans when they take steps to discriminate against gays.

Although I can appreciate Sen. Hagan’s move to “show up” the Republicans I also think that he shouldn’t be playing and making jokes on time which belongs solely to the running of state business.

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