Maryland family faces harsh criticism after daughter is featured in American Girl

That speaks more to the quality of the couple featured than anything negative. But keep trying to inject hate into two individuals making an enormous positive impact on these four children's lives and many others through their charity work.

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The fact that you can't recognize love doesn't effect anyone else.

 

Did this gay couple really tell you that they wanted to adopt black kids to 'legitimize their marriage'? Its just sort of a peculiar thing for a couple to say over the phone or via text.

 

Obvious is obvious. Poor kids.

 

Didn't two stable gay men came across these kids through the dysfunctional foster care system? What does that say about the two stable gay men? It's a shame these kids have their faces plastered across national news, for what? WHY are these kids faces shown across the nation?

 

At least that's true when 'obvious' isn't just an excuse for stereotyping or selling bigotry. Some gay people just want to parent because -well- they want to parent. You feel sorry for the kids of gays. I feel sorry for the kids of bigots.

 

Sounds a lot like slavery. Paying for people, the "better ones" you pay more for. Is there a difference in price for males vs females?

 

There are no kids of gays, it's biologically impossible. Sorry science is bigoted but I can't help you there.

 

Of course there are. Being my kid or my Mom or my Dad is not a question of biology. Its about a relationship between me and a child that I raise, and it describes the roles we play in each other's lives. At least that is how Family Courts define parenthood, as opposed to paternity.

 

Being your kid or your Mom or your Dad is certainly a question of biology. It's an odd statement, since biologically you can't be your kid or your Mom or your Dad. Weird statement. Is your family a family of clones or something?

 

OR maybe, just maybe from the article (guessing you didn't read it) "Rob Scheer, who is a former foster kid who grew up in the Manassas area" someone might wish for a better future for those who are in foster care, because he lived it himself. I am sure the kids would have an easier time being adopted by a hetero black couple, but they weren't adopted by that couple. And this couple certainly is a universe better than the foster care program.

 

Not according to Family court. That is why adoption is a legal proceeding and not a reflection of a DNA test and that is why testimony about the relationship between a child and a parental figure is admissible in Family Court proceedings. The relationship between the minor and the adult is explored to determine whether the respective roles are Mom, Dad, and child, as opposed to the genetic coding in a sample of saliva. You are just plain WRONG. Gay couples and adoptive couples can be either Dads, or Moms and they can be parents according to the law. Sorry but being a legal parent is not the same as being the biological parent. That you refuse to see reality, is sad, but it does not limit us gay folks or our kids in the least.

 

And that's fine. Why is it on the news? Do we see a hetero black couple who adopted black kids? No, never as far as I can see. Do we see a gay black couple who adopted black kids (or white kids for that matter)? Never seen that, maybe it's out there. Do we see a white gay couple who adopted white kids? Nah. Do we see a white hetero couple who adopted white kids who were in foster care? Boring.

Do you see where I'm coming from here? This is a show, dare I say a freak show? I'm not calling anyone involved freaks, the media and the liberals are treating them that way! Sick. These are kids! No matter what I think and no matter what you think these kids are being used. And no liberal, who wave their flags of righteousness, even recognizes it. Exploitation, it's been going on since blacks arrived on these shores. At least the KKK admits their goals, what's the liberals' excuse?

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I didn't say anyone couldn't be parents in law. Show me the legal definition of "kid" or move along kiddo.

 

So, are you your kid, or your Mom, or your Dad? Freud would be thrilled to know.

"Being my kid or my Mom or my Dad is not a question of biology."

 

Well if I can be a parent, my son can be my kid. If my husband and I can be parents, then our son can be our kid. You got no say in the matter. The media are not treating this family as freaks in any sense that they are not treating every single human interest story they ever cover as 'freaks'. Kids who get media coverage because they won a chess tournament are being 'used' as well.

 

Oh I freely admit I have no say in biology. Why do you think you have a say?

 

None of us have a say in biology. Being someone's kid is no more about biology than being someone's son, or daughter or Dad or Mom. Why do you think being someone's kid is different from being their son?

 

It's not different. a) Being a kid or son or daughter is based on a wonderful biological action that results in offspring. b) In law, there are less wonderful ways to mimic the same thing. c) In law, there are way to barbarically terminate a or b. Liberalism in the USA holds both b and c much more important than a.

This is truth.

 

the biological action is not 'wonderful' or horrible. 'Offspring' is not the same as being a kid or a son or a daughter. It is just offspring. The law does not seek to mimic that biological connection. If the law wanted to, it could duplicate the exact same concept in statutory language, but instead it seeks to define another relationship that may or may not coincide. That is differentiation not mimicry. There isn't even a feeble attempt to replicate the same idea.

 

Funny how law respects offspring (that biological connection) more than anything else, as it should. And yes, that biological action is wonderful, and not horrible. What a sick idea. A new life to liberals is "horrible"...even a secular humanist should balk at that.

Some people aren't even at the same level as humans. That sounds contradictory, and it should be in a normal society, but nevertheless it is true given humans who care not about humans.
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I think they have a loving family, can you therefore explain what you consider love is?

 

So what does their sexual preference have to do with how they will raise their kids?

 

Black males are the least likely to be adopted and tend to cost the least to adopt. Your slavery comment is laughable.

 

Ask the Romney family about that....

 

the magazine has a circulation of around 450k which is not very large so their message about homosexuals does not have a very far reach.

The million moms are free to make an on-line post as is the magazine free to introduce deviant sexual lifestyles into their children's magazine.

Parents can choose to stop their subscription much like parents continue to leave the Boy Scouts after they chose to embrace the homosexual lifestyle

Parents, including even many on the far-left are an itneresting sort.

The majority have their protective instincts. Although they may publicly voice support for deviant sexual behavior, they will not subject their own children to it.

 

You are not making any valid argument on thistandby issue and are simply throwing aspersions at posters.