While national and local media outlets focus on political
scandals, sensational stories of celebrity stupidity, and other such nonsense,
thousands of children remain in Virginia’s foster care system. But on Friday,
Gov. Bob McDonnell officially started the “Virginia Adopts: Campaign for
1,000,” a program that hopes to match over 1,000 children in Virginia’s
foster care system with 1,000 adoptive parents.
According to Equality
Virginia, there are over 4,000 children in Virginia’s foster care system.
Gov. McDonnell’s Virginia Adopts campaign is all the more
ambitious because Virginia
law allows private
adoption agencies to turn away prospective adoptees due
to sexual orientation. For their part, Equality Virginia and the Family Equality Council have asked
McDonnell to open Virginia’s doors of adoption to all parents who meet the qualifications.
More important than the sexual orientation of the parents adopting a child is
the love that they give.
If anyone needs evidence that heterosexual parents don’t
always produce socially acceptable children, one need look no further than
Virginia’s Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli. Last I checked, Cuccinelli had a
mother and a father and look how badly he turned out!
The argument that same sex adoptees will somehow disrupt the
normal growth a child or rupture American society’s social fabric are
ludicrous. These arguments are based on nothing more than fear, fear of
difference, fear of what is not completely familiar, fear of a changing world. And
because of these fears, thousands of children could be suffering because same
sex couples are discriminated against in Virginia’s adoption process.
If the mainstream media wants to report a scandal, this is
it.
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