necoandjeff wrote:
> Kevin Gowen wrote:
> 
>>necoandjeff wrote:
>>
>>>"The U.S. Supreme Court refused on Monday to hear a constitutional
>>>challenge to a 1977 Florida law that bans gays and lesbians from
>>>adopting children, the only such state law in the nation."
>>>
>>>Kevin, you must be a proud bunch to be the only state stupid enough
>>>to actually think that gays make unfit parents.
>>
>>Florida doesn't think anything of the kind. The gays are as free to
>>procreate as anyone else.
> 
> 
> Which just demonstrates how stupid this law really is. To be consistent with
> the only remotely socially acceptable rationalization for such a law
> (avoiding the psychology harm to children, for which there isn't a shred of
> evidence, but it sounds good enough), it would have to prevent homosexuals
> from procreating in addition to adopting. 

Kind of like how we don't recognize incestuous marriage but do not 
prevent incestuous procreation. (by artifical means; incestuous sexual 
intercourse is a crime under Florida law) Please, the argument about 
"consistency" is a loser.

> But of course Mr. Peterson, the
> law's sponsor and Floridian extraodinaire, was kind of enough to articulate
> for us the real reason behind the law: "the purpose of the legislation was
> to send a message to gays and lesbians that 'we're really tired of you. We
> wish you'd go back into the closet.'" Yes, a proud state indeed, that
> Florida.

California should be prouder. It only took two tries to outlaw sex with 
human corpses.
http://tinyurl.com/3njsw

Apparently, a man's having sex with the corpse of a four-year-old girl 
was insufficient to move the legislature.

- Kevin