Lady Cooper Wrote:
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> KB Wrote:
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> > You're right, KFLL--andgay people usually
> are
> > willing to take on the really tough foster
> cases,
> > too. In Florida gays can FOSTER kids, but
> they
> > cannot ADOPT-how fucked up is that? There was
> a
> > case though where these two gay men fostered
> a
> > bunch of siblings and really turned them
> around,
> > and of course the state wanted to take them
> > away--the kids freaked out and a judge said
> fuck
> > the state law, you get to ADOPT these kids!
> I'm
> > pretty sure they got to keep them...it was a
> > really great story.
> > My Aunt is a lesbian and is the most normal
> person
> > that I'm related to and more normal than my
> > husband's fucked up family. She is totally
> > awesome.
>
> Again, my Canuck smugness is coming through. We've
> even got provinces with negative population
> growth, and the ones that are having increasing
> population, a huge amount of that is immigration.
> There are still tonnes of breeders, but you guys
> make the States sound like an absolute hell. But,
> I dunno, here gays have the exact same rights as
> heteros, including marriage. Although,
> unfortunately, we're in the middle of an election,
> and it looks like the Conservatives may win, and
> their leader Stephen Harper is crazy right wing
> (more right than the rest of his party), he's
> thinking of re-opening the same sex marriage law.
> But then, he hates gays, women who want to control
> their reproductive rights, immigrants, the poor,
> the elderly, and students.
>
> I'm going to buy one of those: "Bush needs a
> redneck friend up north, Vote Harper" shirts.
I'm originally from Michigan, and we would go to Canada all the time--hubby and I even considered moving there after November 2004. But as the saying goes, it's all cyclical--and Harper is quite a scary bastard. I really hope he doesn't get elected--that would be disastrous for Canada. I'm surprised he's so far ahead in the polls, but I guess people just get tired of one party rule after awhile. I hope it happens here soon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!