3/4 Page Antigay Ad in today's Denver Post

[donco6]

"Why Doesn't Senator Salazar Believe Every Child Needs a Mother and a Father?"

Anyone else see these today?

[xchrom]

1. does it say who paid for the advertising?

naturally it doesn't mention that all those children won't ever get a parent -- let alone a ''mom and dad''.

[donco6]

4. Here's a pic of the ad:

[sakabatou]

12. Family Action... what a bigoted bunch of MFos

[xchrom]

13. ah yes -- focus on the family!

co-creators of the fictioonal war on christians.

tapeworms sucking cat piss is what they are.

[BR_Parkway]

2. Wonder how many single parents are going to find that ad insulting

Sure, as a single dad, I recognized that it would have been easier to have their mom around, but given her personality and mental condition - they wouldn't have necessarily been better off.

Even taking away the gay bashing of the ad, as a single dad, I still find it offensive.

[sui generis]

3. what we really need to know is

what percent of adoption applications do we make up?

Is it 10 - 15% or more? Hard numbers, either way, would be something to beat them over the head with.

It's such a non-issue, especially in a metro/urban area. I think the reason lawmakers are pulling back from it generally speaking is that we do make up a significant number of adoptions and they can't justify keeping these kids in state custody when there are parents of any kind who are willing and qualified to adopt.

[donco6]

5. Good question

I tried searching around to find this number, but haven't had any luck so far.

I think you're right - defending state custody (esp. with all the bad press THAT'S been getting recently - here in CO a woman was just arrested for keeping her 11-yr-old foster son in a dog cage!) is getting harder to do, when there are good homes for them to be placed in permanently.

[OneBlueSky]

6. this is a Focus on the Family production . . .

James C. Dobson, founder and CEO . . .

http://www.family.org/cforum/

[Rainbowreflect]

7. That basic ad has been on the radio here in Nebraska.

Against Chuck Hagel. The first time I heard it I about :puke:

[donco6]

8. Ironically, the banner ad on this page right now . . .

. . . is for Faith Bible Chapel - the local antigay cesspool here in Denver. :puke: is right.

[JustFiveMoreMinutes]

9. '.. needs at least one or more Mother and Father'

With today's divorce rate and remarriage, MANY kids have 'two dads', or 'two moms' (or more of course). We have the biological parent and then another or more of the step-kind of parent. It's not unusual today for ANY Heather to have 'two moms'.

And let's take the ad to the other extreme... EVERY kid needs a mom&dad.. so let's..

* Force widlowed parents to remarry immediately.
* Outlaw orphanages
* Not allow parents to enlist/serve in the military
* Require state approval for divorce

or else I guess NO politician really believes EVERY child needs a mother and father!

ANd note, how cute and freckled and white the poster child is.

Do you think Focus on the (white) Family would ever put up a black, hispanic, mixed race child on a poster?
Maybe they need to put an * by Child and in the footnote say 'white anglosaxon protestant, we dont really care
about urban, non-whites'.

[cboy4]

10. "...meanwhile homosexual marriages are threatening to spread

across the country..."

RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!!!! :puke:

Where's the ad talking about the hypocritical christians and their high divorce rates and broken families??

Yes, it's quite the outrage having children grow up with two loving same sex parents. :eyes:

[donco6]

11. I guess divorce doesn't impact the "sanctity" of marriage.

:shrug:

[kevinbgoode]

14. I have NEVER understood why WE don't run ads that say:

Why does James Dobson and Focus on the Family think that adult fathers should bathe with their sons and show them their peepees?

[NMMNG]

15. So I take it that Family Action

supports a law forbidding divorce? I suppose it would also be prudent in the event of the death of one spouse to require the widow(er) to remarry immediately, so the child(ren) does not go without the all important other parent for any significant length of time. It doesn't matter if there is adultery, spousal abuse or child abuse/neglect--so long as the child(ren) have that crucial father and mother. :sarcasm:

[HockeyMom]

17. As a child I used to cry myself to sleep

wishing my parents WOULD divorce. These people have no clue what it is really like for kids to grow up in a household of one male and one female married parents who hate each other, fight all the time, etc., etc. Happiness for me as a child was when neither of them were home at the same time. Hear that, Mr. Dobson, et. al? Yes, my parents stayed married for the rest of their lives (good christians) and went for the last 10 years of their lives not talking to each other, living in the same house. When Dad died, my Mom said to me, "Thank God. Now I can finally find some peace." Sacred, holy, sacrament of marriage?

But I can contrast my childhood with the cousin's. He was raised by his Mom and her Partner, openly back in the 1960s. Absolutely no comparison to the peaceful, loving home he had. It did not matter the gender of his parents. They loved each other and they loved him. It truly showed in the kind of home life he had. I would have gladly given my right eye to be able to run away and live with them.

It really all comes down to LOVE.

[Ian David]

16. Did Senator Salazar vote for the Iraq war?

If every child needs a mother and a father, then why... since the dawn of time... have we sent so many fathers off to war?