Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Legislature / Politics / Woods Pigs Fly! Campfield Bill Clears Subcommittee
Posted by Jeff Woods on Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 9:48 AM
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They could ask a judge to temporarily assign someone else their rights to visit their children.
I wonder if that applies if that person is gay? I'm thinking not.
Stacy Campfield and the rest of the homophobes in the state legislature conveniently forget that gay people have sisters, brothers, cousins, aunts, uncles, etc. If I had children, their anti-gay adoption legislation would prevent me, a straight person, from assigning guardianship to my gay siblings should anything happen to me.
This isn't a hypothetical, it's a very real situation to families all around the country. Imagine the pain of a single parent dying of cancer who would like to name their gay brother parental guardian but can't because of the legal limbo caused by Campfield's homophobic bills that may or may not make it out of committee?
It's a shame that people like Campfield think they know better than a parent about private family matters such as these.
I'm glad political reporters are having a good laugh at Campfield's expense but they need to remember that his wacky bills have very real repercussions to people in this state.
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