Heh.
In response to an attempt to ban gay people from adopting or foster children from being placed in a home where a gay person lives, an Ohio Democrat plans to introduce a bill barring adoption and fostering in any home with one or more Republican voters.
Of course it won’t pass or even get to the floor but fortunately it appears that at least some GOP leaders are decent enough that the anti-gay bill won’t get to the floor either.
Will someone please think of th-
Oh.
While I’m sure this was, indeed, a tongue-in-cheek e-mail not intended to go beyond the private joke among his buddies, I hope that the news story does not cause it to backfire.
The idiotic bill that was proposed to ban gay adoption was immediately killed by the Republican Speaker of the House as a stupid and unnecessary action even before any defenders of gay rights had the opportunity to speak up.
Given that Ohio’s idiotic ban on gay marriage, despite being written in such a way that it penalized lots of people who were not even gay, passed overwhelmingly in a referendum, it would seem to me that riling the unthinking voters of this state to overreact would not be a very smart thing to do.
So, he’s basically suggesting the bill as a joke, to make a point, not because he actually wants to pass such a law? Being too lazy to read the link, that’s the impression I get.
Does this happen often? It seems rather out of the ordinary to me.
Your tax dollars at work…
Not his tax dollars. His tax dollars go for paying for California’s seemingly-endless special elections.
Happens all the time.
It was a private joke sent to a few people in his own party via e-mail that got quoted and forwarded to the press. He has made no effort to introduce any such bill.
There are no “tax dollars” involved (unless we want to claim that every politician who sends a note or e-mail or mentions something in a phone call or in the party conference room is “spending tax dollars” to do it, even when it is a private conversation).
Boy this Bill guy is a real jerk. First he tries to ban abortions in South Dakota and now this.
But most of the time he’s just lazy, spending most of the day just a sittin’ on Capitol Hill.
Although to be fair, I hear it was a long, long journey for him to get to the the Capitol.
What really bothers me though, is that he seems to spend a lot of time hoping and praying. Not only is this rather ineffective, but if our tax money is being spent to allow him to engage in religious practices, I believe it’s a violation of the First Amendment.