Feb 27 2006
Finally, some legislation that makes sense….
Gotta love this. Apparently, there is a bill in the Ohio senate that bars Republicans from adopting children. I’m not making this up. State Sen. Robert Hagan drafted the bill in response to another senator’s bill banning children from being adopted by gay people. Hagan’s bill says:
“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.”
You can read the whole scoop here…
This serves as an entryway to discuss the ‘fear of the unknown’ that drives so many people. I sometimes think that people fear abstract things more than concrete ideas. Maybe because concrete ideas involve thinking about them for more than a few minutes on a superficial level and some people just aren’t equipped for that. During the whole civil unions brouhaha here in Vermont a few years back, as well as today we hear how the concept would ‘destroy traditional marriage’. Yet, no one could really define what ‘destroying traditional marriage’ meant. Did they mean that somehow, if gay unions/marriage were allowed, that all over the world, hetero couples would just somehow instantly fall out of love with each other? And ones who weren’t married at the time would just decide to never get married? Or was it yet another feeling of superiority and exclusivity was being taken away from them? Was my divorce a few years ago not really about incompatibility/personality issues and really about the fact that Vermont allowed civil unions, even though me and my ex never even gave them any thought? Who knows? Nobody was ever able to define what that meant in any kind of coherent manner. Yet people were easily able to use that fear to whip people up into a frenzy, get real ugly, and unfortunately get to the polls.
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