The GOP Hates Children, Too

It’s fairly clear that the GOP doesn’t like The Gays because, many of them, most of the party, is working against marriage equality everywhere; hell, they’re against any and all legislation that might be deemed gay-friendly.

And we know the GOP is anti-women because this party, of mostly old men, wants to poke their noses into women’s vaginas — and not in the way a woman might enjoy — and wants to tells women what they can, and cannot, do with their own bodies, their own healthcare, and, well, doesn’t think women should earn as much as men even if doing the same job.

The GOP is also anti-immigrant, and uses fear-based rhetoric to spread their message; how many times have we heard the wingnuts like Michele Bachmann and Louie Gohmert suggest that these children, children, coming across the borders are only coming here to rape “our” women. Man, that’s anti-women — suggesting that we, I assume, men, own women — and anti-immigrant. And let’s be queer, it’s only the brown-skinned undocumented immigrants the GOP has trouble with, because you never hear them rant and rail against the white ones coming here illegally from Europe.

But now it appears that some in the GOP are anti-children, working to pass legislation to restrict who can adopt a child in this country.

There’s a new bit of federal legislation — S. 2706/H.R. 5285 — introduced this week by co-authors, and Republicans, of course, Mike Enzi of Wyoming and Mike Kelly of Pennsylvania, that would allow adoption or foster care providers to refuse service on the basis of their own personal religious objections.

And it affects everyone.

See, this new law, if passed, would allow a religious adoption agency from a non-Christian faith to refuse adoption services to a straight, Christian couple; a single parent seeking to foster a child could be denied; and, of course, let us not forget the gay and lesbian couples who would be told ‘No’ when asked if they might adopt a child.

Children, in need of a loving parent, adoptive or foster, would sit in orphanages or group homes because an adoption providers own personal religious beliefs will not allow that child to be adopted out to a loving home because, well, gay … or single … or of a different, i.e. bad, faith.

That’s the GOP people; working against LGBT rights, women’s rights, the brown-skinned, Hispanic speaking immigrants, and now children.

Is that the kind of party we want in an elected office? In any elected office?

via Human Rights Campaign

[another] ISBL Asshat of the Week: Adam Kwasman

We all know what’s going on out there in oracle, Arizona, with the good Christian Conservatives, republicans and Teabaggers lining the highways with signs, and sometimes guns, to protest the bussing of undocumented migrant children to United States shelters.

Well, this week one of those wingnuts, Arizona state representative Adam Kwasman — who is running in the GOP primary for the U.S. House against Arizona House Speaker Andy Tobin and businessman Gary Kiehne — was in Oracle railing against the migrant children and hoping to parlay that into some extra votes in the upcoming primary, when suddenly he stopped railing.

A bus! A bus was coming! Migrant children were being driven right by!!

Kwasman ran at the bus, trying to see inside, and spot all those young refugees. He even Tweeted about the poor, sad children on the bus, but, sadly, before he could hold a press conference, he was whisked away to a meeting in Phoenix. It wasn’t until later in the day that a reporter was able to catch up with Kwasman and discuss the horrors that he had seen.

"I was actually able to see some of the children in the buses. The fear on their faces.... This is not compassion."

One problem, Adam; that yellow school bus wasn’t filled with refugee children, no undocumented minors; it was a group of American children on their way to a YMCA camp. And the fear on their faces was probably due to seeing a bunch of wild-eyed wingnuts running at them with cameras and signs.

And how did Kwasman spin his little blunder? How did he respond when he was told that it wasn’t a bus filled with migrant children, but just regular old white kids on their way to camp?

"They were sad, too. OK, I apologize. I didn't know. I was leaving when I saw them. So if that was a school bus. People are not happy down the line. That's an error by me."

No, that was you trying to use children as a political ploy and yet not having the good sense God gave a goat to know what you’re talking about.

But then, it’s Arizona so ……

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