Lawmaker says ban on gay foster parents not dead.

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Thu Apr-28-05 10:58 AM
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Lawmaker says ban on gay foster parents not dead.

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Lawmaker says ban on gay foster parents not dead.
By Michelle M. Martinez
AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF
Thursday, April 28, 2005
Key lawmakers say a controversial proposal to ban gay and bisexual people from becoming foster parents is all but dead, but the legislator who proposed the ban said Wednesday that he might seek another way to push it through this session.

Rep. Robert Talton, R-Pasadena, successfully tacked the ban last week on to the House version of Senate Bill 6, the child and adult protective services reform bill.

Although the Senate author of the bill has said her chamber will scrap the ban, Talton said he hasn't given up hope.

"If I can find it in another bill, I will certainly do that, if it doesn't survive SB 6," Talton said. "I can't imagine the Senate pulling that out. I would be very surprised."

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http://www.statesman.com/news/content/shared/tx/legislature/stories/04/28foster.html

:mad: Grrr.... we have to keep an eye on this. :mad:

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GOPisEvil

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Thu Apr-28-05 11:03 AM
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1. Give it up Talton.

Unless YOU are willing to take these foster children into YOUR home, keep your ignorant trap shut and take your medicine.

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Thu Apr-28-05 11:07 AM
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2. Seriously

Next we will ban parents that don't go to church, do watch librul news shows and read books that (we all know)should be banned, and anyone that doesn't own a giant gas guzzling GMC SUV.

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Thu Apr-28-05 01:07 PM
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3. An interesting article on the supposed research behind the hatred

Last week, the Texas House of Representatives passed a child-services bill with an amendment that would make Texas the first state in the nation to prevent same-sex couples from becoming foster parents. The state Senate passed a conflicting bill without that measure, and the two bodies are debating how to proceed.

The proposed ban attracted national media attention, and several "pro-family" groups seeking to drum up support for the bill have been circulating some troubling stats about gay parents. Among the most striking, stated during a CNN program: children in foster homes with same-sex parents are 11 times as likely to be sexually abused as those with heterosexual parents.

To get on CNN, that number snaked through a twisting path, from a little-noticed Illinois study published by an antigay scientist/activist in a psychological journal, to several conservative Web sites, to, finally, the attention of a Texas activist who presented her misinterpretation of the study on national television, essentially unchallenged. It's a textbook example of how flawed numbers can gain national attention if advocates work hard enough -- especially when there aren't widely-known conflicting estimates

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http://online.wsj.com/public/article/0,,SB111461604615918400,00.html?mod=todays%5Ffree%5Ffeature

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