Gay Adoption Highlight Of Fla. Gubernatorial Debate

[davidinalameda]

http://www.365gay.com/Newscon06/10/103106florida.htm

In a week's time Florida voters will be electing a new governor to replace Jeb Bush (R) and with polls showing Republican Charlie Crist strongly head of Democrat Jim Davis all eyes were on the final debate between the two and independent candidate Max Linn.

If viewers were expecting any great surprises they were disappointed. The only one was the appearance of Linn who wasn't supposed to participate. Linn won a court order 20 minutes before air time to be included.

All three candidates oppose same-sex marriage but all three would support civil unions.

Crist, (pictured) who currently is Attorney General and who has dogged suggestions throughout the campaign that he is gay, had one of the more unusual reasons for opposing same-sex marriage, saying marriage is a "sacred" relationship - "like I had, before I got divorced."

[Pacifist Patriot]

1. I thought I saw a couple of polls that indicated..

Crist and Davis were in a virtual dead heat given the MOE.

Aside from that, Crist's divorce comment is priceless. Simply priceless.

[Ayesha]

2. OMG

ROFL!!!
:rofl: :wtf: :banghead:

[ThomCat]

4. I love that Culture of Life in your signature.

I also checked out your site today. Great stuff. :hi:

[davidinalameda]

3. that is my quote of the day

:rofl:

[Divine Discontent]

5. HA HA HA HA HA !!!

sweet Jesus, please may the Davis camp show that comment in a commercial ---- what a phoney Crist is...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZ4DyPTEJ6A (youtube of the dailybuzz on the CW Network, discussing a closeted Crist)

[TaleWgnDg]

6. This cited 365gay.com news article points to the irrationality of,

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This cited 365gay.com news article points to the irrationality of, and pure political appeasement of, candidates stating that they are for civil unions and opposed to same-sex marriage but then again are opposed to "gay adoption" of kids!

Think about it.

All three candidates are for civil unions. So, if Florida state marriage laws kick in for Florida civil unions then those same-sex civil-union'd couples can have biological kids, too, via many medical and legally available means. What's to stop (or how to stop) them in a legal civil union? And, regarding adoptions, it means that same-sex civil-union'd couples can have (non-adopted) biological kids but not (adopted) non-biological kids? It also means that straight-marrieds can adopt kids but not civil-union'd same-sex couples? How, then, can state law prevent them from adopting kids unless of course the civil union law specifically prohibits same-sex civil-union'd couples from adoption. That in and of itself would cause quite some protracted and very expensive litigation!

Can Floridians think this through? Uuummmm, no, I doubt it. After all, Florida spawned the Terry Schiavo fiasco as well as is the only state w/i America -- for a long time -- that specially prohibits gays from adopting kids. Florida, historically, hasn't demonstrated a thinking voting citizenry. It gave us Bush v. Gore too. Not to mention lots of other damn reactionary laws on its state books.

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[Vorta]

7. Beware of the ones who sound reasonable

The Democrats have to play down their positions on gay marriage, or they won't get elected and can't do us any good. But beware the Republican who sounds reasonable, it's simply a ploy for the moderate vote, and they will side against us. Now some gay folks like to rag on Clinton for his signing DOMA. I find no fault there, it wasn't worth the political capital and it was a losing battle. I feel certain he figured that anything so blatantly unconstitutional would be struck down by the Supreme Court, as I predict it eventually will be.