# Any Texans want to defend this? (foster care) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 21, 2005, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-texans-want-to-defend-this-foster-care/300346 "2005-04-21T01:02:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2005, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-texans-want-to-defend-this-foster-care/300346/21 "2005-04-21T15:34:29Z")
What a bunch of morons. It’ll get overturned, but that’s besides the point as far as I’m concerned. Vote those losers out! ---
**Author:** ![abbeytxs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eb9ed0/32.png) [@abbeytxs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/abbeytxs)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2005, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-texans-want-to-defend-this-foster-care/300346/22 "2005-04-21T17:54:32Z")
> [@World Eater](#): > > What a bunch of morons. It’ll get overturned, but that’s besides the point as far as I’m concerned. Vote those losers out! Believe me, a lot of us are trying. I hate Texas too, but I am stuck here for a while longer so I will keep just banging my head against the wall in hopes that someday things will change. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2005, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-texans-want-to-defend-this-foster-care/300346/23 "2005-04-21T18:15:19Z")
Last I heard, gay people can foster in Florida, but can’t adopt. This includes not being able to adopt kids they’ve been fostering. ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2005, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-texans-want-to-defend-this-foster-care/300346/24 "2005-04-21T18:17:39Z")
> [@abbeytxs](#): > > Believe me, a lot of us are trying. > > I hate Texas too, but I am stuck here for a while longer so I will keep just banging my head against the wall in hopes that someday things will change. Things will change alright, you’re vision will become blurry! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Kearse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f04885/32.png) [@Kearse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kearse)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2005, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-texans-want-to-defend-this-foster-care/300346/25 "2005-04-21T18:19:32Z")
I doubt you will be getting too many Texans to defend this. Hell, I’m in Texas and I wouldn’t touch it with someone else’s ten foot pole. I didn’t think it was Arkansas but yes it has already been deemed unconstitutional in another State, as it will be here. ---
**Author:** ![Greathouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/greathouse/32/2992_2.png) [@Greathouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greathouse)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2005, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-texans-want-to-defend-this-foster-care/300346/26 "2005-04-21T18:20:34Z")
I won’t try to defend this law. But I must say that I rather enjoy living in Texas (climate, people, scenery…etc). Apparently I am the only person on the board who does. ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2005, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-texans-want-to-defend-this-foster-care/300346/27 "2005-04-21T18:26:09Z")
> [@Greathouse](#): > > I won’t try to defend this law. > > But I must say that I rather enjoy living in Texas (climate, people, scenery…etc). Apparently I am the only person on the board who does. It’s typically only the greater states that conjure up strong feelings for good or bad. California, Texas, and New York are the holy trinity of loving and hating. Who the hell really cares about Ohio, Nevada, Maine, or Wisconsin? Well, I like beer and cheese so Winsoncsin is pretty cool. Florida only makes the list because of Elian and the 2000 election. Marc ---
**Author:** ![abbeytxs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eb9ed0/32.png) [@abbeytxs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/abbeytxs)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2005, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-texans-want-to-defend-this-foster-care/300346/28 "2005-04-21T18:33:14Z")
> [@World Eater](#): > > Things will change alright, you’re vision will become blurry! 😛 I was hoping that if I kept it up long enough I would turn into a drooling, semi-conscious, knuckle dragging, truck driving, ‘W’ sticker sporting, short sighted stooge like the rest of my fellow Texans. (with blurry vision) 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Greathouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/greathouse/32/2992_2.png) [@Greathouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greathouse)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2005, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-texans-want-to-defend-this-foster-care/300346/29 "2005-04-21T18:45:16Z")
WOW! Somebody is a little upset. Hey, **abbeytxs** , just go grab a Midol and some Cotex and relax a little bit. It’ll be all right. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Homebrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2005, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-texans-want-to-defend-this-foster-care/300346/30 "2005-04-21T18:46:48Z")
Don’t sell Florida short, there’s also the Terri Schiavo case, the state bans adoptions by gay people, the city of Inglis posting signs that Satan was banned from the city, a bar in the state holds a mullet (the fish) toss (okay that’s one is whimsical), the Jessica Lunsford case and many others. ---
**Author:** ![Greathouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/greathouse/32/2992_2.png) [@Greathouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greathouse)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2005, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-texans-want-to-defend-this-foster-care/300346/31 "2005-04-21T18:47:03Z")
> [@Greathouse](#): > > WOW! Somebody is a little upset. > > Hey, **abbeytxs** , just go grab a Midol and some Cotex and relax a little bit. It’ll be all right. 😛 Damnit! _K_otex. Sheesh, there goes that joke. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2005, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-texans-want-to-defend-this-foster-care/300346/32 "2005-04-21T18:56:21Z")
> [@Greathouse](#): > > Damnit! _K_otex. Sheesh, there goes that joke. :smack: Well, it wasn’t funny anyway. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Devil_s_Grandmother)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2005, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-texans-want-to-defend-this-foster-care/300346/33 "2005-04-21T19:07:12Z")
> [@Lynn Bodoni](#): > > 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: Can you run for public office? Even just something local like a school board? Sometimes, to change the game you have to play. ---
**Author:** ![Greathouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/greathouse/32/2992_2.png) [@Greathouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greathouse)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2005, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-texans-want-to-defend-this-foster-care/300346/34 "2005-04-21T19:07:51Z")
> [@Mockingbird](#): > > Well, it wasn’t funny anyway. Ehh, Made me chuckle a little bit. To each his own. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![abbeytxs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eb9ed0/32.png) [@abbeytxs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/abbeytxs)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2005, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-texans-want-to-defend-this-foster-care/300346/35 "2005-04-21T19:07:52Z")
> [@Greathouse](#): > > Damnit! _K_otex. Sheesh, there goes that joke. :smack: Nah, that was last week. Maybe I just need a little more caffeine ---
**Author:** ![Metacom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecae2f/32.png) [@Metacom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Metacom)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2005, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-texans-want-to-defend-this-foster-care/300346/36 "2005-04-21T19:10:22Z")
> [@Greathouse](#): > > But I must say that I rather enjoy living in Texas (climate, people, scenery…etc). Apparently I am the only person on the board who does. Nah. I like living in Texas too. There’s a lot about Texas I don’t like, but being able to afford a house on a lot larger then a postage stamp makes up for a lot. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2005, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-texans-want-to-defend-this-foster-care/300346/37 "2005-04-21T19:11:42Z")
> [@Greathouse](#): > > Ehh, Made me chuckle a little bit. To each his own. 🙂 I’m sure being a misogynist pig is a hoot where you come from. ---
**Author:** ![Greathouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/greathouse/32/2992_2.png) [@Greathouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greathouse)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2005, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-texans-want-to-defend-this-foster-care/300346/38 "2005-04-21T19:17:50Z")
> [@Mockingbird](#): > > I’m sure being a misogynist pig is a hoot where you come from. And obviously being a shrill little fuckwad who takes offense at every other word someone says is hoot where you’re from. It was a fucking joke. Get over it already. ---
**Author:** ![Homebrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2005, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-texans-want-to-defend-this-foster-care/300346/39 "2005-04-21T19:26:57Z")
Is Greathouse your real-life last name? Are you or do you know Tim Greathouse who does/did live in Texarkana? ---
**Author:** ![Greathouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/greathouse/32/2992_2.png) [@Greathouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greathouse)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2005, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-texans-want-to-defend-this-foster-care/300346/40 "2005-04-21T19:32:04Z")
> [@Homebrew](#): > > Is Greathouse your real-life last name? Are you or do you know Tim Greathouse who does/did live in Texarkana? Never heard of him. Sorry. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-texans-want-to-defend-this-foster-care/300346.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-texans-want-to-defend-this-foster-care/300346.md?page=3)