Colorado Care About Kids
April 17, 2007: In another example of putting common sense and the welfare of children ahead of homophobia and pandering to the religious right, the Colorado legislature did the right thing. This is from the Rocky Mountain News:
A measure to allow gay couples to adopt won the Senate’s initial approval Wednesday, despite several lawmakers’ objections that the measure is a backdoor attempt to push the “homosexual agenda.”
“This is a remake of the homosexual agenda,” said Sen. Scott Renfroe, R-Greeley. “It’s not about protecting children. It is an attack on the traditional family. It undermines traditional marriage structure that we need to keep strong and sacred.”
The Senate approved the bill on a party-line voice vote, with Democrats arguing that the “Second Parent Adoption Bill” isn’t about promoting the gay agenda, but about protecting children being raised by an array nontraditional families.
I will never understand the insane non-argument that allowing MORE people to have loving relationships and help children in need somehow “undermines traditional marriage.” I don’t even think that this Scott Renfroe - whoever he is - actually believes this nonsensical sound bite either. This is all about using people’s worst prejudices to build support for your rotten agenda. It’s sickening.
Thankfully, there are more brave, sane and kind people in the Senate than there are Scott Renfroes.
By the way, I wonder how many children Mr. Renfroe has adopted from bad circumstances or rescued from foster care.
Hmmm…let’s see his webpage. According to it, he has five children, no mention of whether or not any are adopted. He does, however, rather strangely, list his family as a “recreational interest:”
Recreational interests are family, golfing, water and snow skiing, snow boarding, basketball and short term missions
He also is so excited about having the opportunity to discriminate that he puts passing laws against our families as his first priority under his “issues” page:
“I believe life begins at conception, and will vote that way every time, without fail. This issue is a major priority for me. And you’ll find me strongly in Congresswoman Musgrave’s camp in banning gay marriage in Colorado and across our nation.”
Of all the issues in the world - providing quality health care to people, ensuring a good education for children, working towards peace or protecting our planet, this man’s MAJOR PRIORITY is making sure that some people he doesn’t care for don’t have the same basic human rights that I’m sure he’d want for his five beautiful children.
And while he is described as an evangelical, his other major concerns include making sure businesses have more rights (”We can’t strangle them by creating new licenses, new backdoor taxing methods, and increased regulations that only hamper their ability to employ and serve Colorado citizens.”), closing the door on people in people in need (” Those who enter our country without permission should not be allowed to collect benefits from Colorado taxpayers and should be deported to their home country quickly”) and making sure everyone has a deadly weapon available to them at all times (”You can count on Scott Renfroe to oppose gun control at every turn. Maybe that’s why Scott Renfroe has been endorsed by Colorado’s only pro-gun political action committee.”)
I could think of a quite a few ways to contrast any one of these views with those of that peace-loving, money-changer-hating, judge-not-lest-ye-be-judged liberal hippie Jesus, but what’s the point?
People like Renfroe are reading from a political playbook, not the Bible. I just don’t understand who’s buying this crap.