If you can’t beat ‘em, joke ‘em (or beat ‘em profusely, then joke about it)
28 February 2006 by Sean
Satire will be the savior of civilization.
Or so we hope.
Plan would bar Ohio adoptions by GOP
The Daily Plan summary:
With recent bills by anti-gay forces to ban adoption by gays, it was only a matter of time before the potential parenting skills of all manner of groups come under fire.
Ohio State Senator Robert Hagan has introduced a bill to bar Republicans from adopting children or becoming foster parents, since as he argues:
“[C]redible 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 has no scientific evidence to support the above claims, but then he notes, neither do those who argue gays are a threat as parents.
Hagan’s bill is tongue-in-cheek, but more seriously, the reality is that 20,000 children each year go into the foster care system who will never get adopted, 20,000 children desperate for a home but who will reach adulthood with no one EVER adopting them.
With so much need to recruit more adoptive parents, it’s a bit crazy (and cruel) that any loving parents, whatever their political party or sexual orientation, would be barred from adopting.
28 February 2006, on 11:32 am
Yup… This along with this, and I’m leaving Ohio for the atheist utopia that is being organized on NoGodBlog (which I’m hoping will be located in Hawaii).
Amazing… such a pretty state, and it’s filled with IDiots.
28 February 2006, on 11:54 am
Cass! I’m going to the atheist uptopia too! Wanna car pool?
28 February 2006, on 11:57 am
Hey - I just had an idea. Why don’t we make an Atheist Exodus website. A paraody of Xian exodus. Except we’re going to Hawaii. Anyone want to get in on this? Perferrably someone who knows more about web design then I do?
28 February 2006, on 11:59 am
Lya, I’ve got the mini van! I’ll pick you up!
I think that it’s a great idea. I’m interested… I probably know just about as much as you do when it comes to web design. LOL! AtheistExodus.org??
28 February 2006, on 12:07 pm
Better yet, we can buy our own island and populate it with an “atheists only” community and laugh as the rest of the theist population bombs itself to shit.
28 February 2006, on 12:54 pm
AtheistExodus sounds like a wonderful project! Er, I don’t have web design skills, either. Perhaps a parody page with fun little link graphics to grab for the cause would be a starting point.
28 February 2006, on 1:08 pm
I’m looking for webdesign help as well as people willing to write content. And people who can make buttons and graphics and things.
The bigger the staff, the better, I think.
28 February 2006, on 3:44 pm
Lya,
How’s this?
28 February 2006, on 3:45 pm
Whoops!
I meant this!
28 February 2006, on 4:32 pm
LMAO Marcus!!! That’s awesome!!
Get that to cafe press pronto - I want a t-shirt.
28 February 2006, on 5:02 pm
Hawaii would be great, but the cost of living is expensive. I’d love it if y’all came out to my neck of the woods in Portland Oregon. We have one of the highest percentages of non-believers in the country, so you would feel right at home. Besides, I need more of you to move out here to counter all the kids (4 at last count) my born again co-worker is having.
28 February 2006, on 5:52 pm
Good idea except lets make it the entire western US. Think BIG. We would control the 4th or 5th largetst economy in the world. We could do some real good with that kind of power. Do you think the religious would leave if we asked nice? If we could really do that what would it be like 100 yrs from now? Most of us would probably still be alive and in good health.
As far as Hawaii goes, they have Kahunas there and those critters scare me. LOL
JIM
28 February 2006, on 6:07 pm
Room for any australians in utopia?
1 March 2006, on 7:15 am
Of course! All ATHEISTS are welcome.
And Marcus - that was fan-fucking-tasic. We’re totally using that.
1 March 2006, on 10:29 am
Lya,
Use it to your heart’s ultimate contentment.