I know Making Fun of Texas is a sport/sore spot (depending which side you’re on) around here so I want to say I am not in any way disparaging the many fine, sane, rational citizens of Texas if I note the the GOVERNMENT in Texas seems to be royally fucked in the head.
Congradualtions on being the ONLY state to go out of it’s way to seperate children in need from potentially loving homes out of some warped prejudice.
(And no, I’m not, honestly, pitting Texas…just pitting the fact that this could have happen anywhere in the US)
Nitpick: The bill would keep children away from potentially loving homes, not seperate those that are already placed. Children already living with a gay foster parent wouldn’t be removed.
Nope, not gonna defend it. Love Texas but sometimes it sucks ass.
Or,er, I guess it discriminates against those that would suck ass. But wait, that’s not exclusive to the gay community…oh well, carry on.
This Texan (whether I’m fine, sane, and/or rational is a Great Debate) is sometimes very ashamed of what the Texas gummint does. I vote, but most of the time I just have a choice of evils. :o :mad:
This is the state that gave us GWB and Tom DeLay. Did you expect anything less than arrant, blockheaded bigotry? I hate to admit to having been born in that hell-hole and to have been stupid enough to stay there until I was twenty-three.
So… Eventually wised up to Texas and you moved Flordia instead? That’s the one state that’s a contender with Texas for the #1 spot on the “Most Fucked Up State” list.
No sir, absolutely not. While they do their best to fuck things up in Florida, Texas stands head, shoulders, and ten gallon hat above all others when it comes to being a fucked up place.
Considering the already drastic shortage of foster homes in Texas, hell no, I’m not going to defend this! :mad: I can tell you that CPS needs a lot of help (I can say that–I work there!), but I vehemently disagree with this specific decision. We need all the good foster homes we can get, whether the foster parents are married or single, any color of the rainbow, gay/straight/bi–whatever. I’m sick to death of lumping people into arbitrary categories just because of one issue. I’ve got tons of parents on my caseload who are married but I sure as hell don’t want them signing up to be foster parents.
Excuse the incoherent nature of this post–I was up all night and I’m so tired I’m ready to puke.
We’re sorry, we really are. We keep kicking the idiots out, telling them to go find something usefull to do. We just didn’t expect elected office to be where they’d wind up.
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I could point out that we didn’t elect Bush all on our own, but then I’d have to concede that DeLay is entirely our fault. I just don’t understand it. I seem to live around reasonable people. I even vote myself. And yet, these schmucks make into office, and make these boneheaded decisions. :smack:
Put me in Lynn’s camp on this one.
InkBlot, proud Texan?
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What about when he was elected Governor? That was all your own doing. In the interest of full disclosure, I’ll point out that while I was born in Texas myself and lived there for most of my adult life, I was living in Atlanta, Georgia when he was elected Gov.
You think the Foster Care situation is fucked up there? Try looking into the MHMR situation.
Sorry 'bout this, but that’s wrong. I saw this on AP:
“If the applicant is, the state would ban him or her from becoming a foster parent. The state also would not be able to place a child with that foster parent or allow a child to remain in the care with that foster parent.”
“Under the Texas bill, anyone who applies to be a foster parent or a foster parent whose performance is being evaluated must say whether he or she is homosexual or bisexual. Anyone who answers yes would be barred from serving as a foster parent. If the person is already a foster parent, the child would be removed from the home.”
I left Texas in 1963, soon after the JFK incident, although not because of that. I moved to Florida after having lived in eight states of the lower forty-eight during the course of my working life. I prefer Florida to Texas for reasons that have nothing to do with politics. Suffice it to say that I hated Texas while I was growing up there and I hate it now. I will hate the damned place until the day I die. IMHO, Florida doesn’t come close to Texas on the most fucked up state list. YMMV.
