Last night on Facebook, I gave Jan Brewer a hair of credit for vetoing a birther bill that would require candidates to prove their US citizenship, either through a birth certificate or perhaps, a circumcision record [really], to Arizona’s Secretary of State before being allowed on the ballot. Apparently even Jan Brewer is weirded out by the idea of a candidate bringing his ritual penis cutting certificate to the State House.
But let us not get too excited, please? Jan Brewer is still one of the world’s worst wingnuts, and the goalposts of “too crazy” have been moved so far to the right in the past several years that she really deserves no credit for doing one sane thing. Moreover, on the same day she vetoed that birther bill, she signed this one:
Yesterday, Arizona Governor Jan Brewer (R) signed Senate Bill 1188, requiring state-funded and private adoption agencies “to give primary consideration to adoptive placement with a married man and woman, with all other criteria being equal.” This doesn’t mean that gay couples wouldn’t be able to adopt in the state, but they would have to fall to the back of the line simply because of their sexual orientation.
Absent any evidence that straight adoptive parents are better than gay adoptive parents [religious dogma is not evidence, fools], and flat against the needs of her state’s children, she decided to go ahead and sign this bigoted bill which simply seeks to make gay and lesbian couples’ lives more difficult.
Tom Mann of Equality Arizona had this to say:
“The governor’s action today is harmful to children in foster care and group homes who are seeking a permanent home and the support of a loving, caring family,” Mann said. “SB 1188 takes the focus off of what’s in the best interest of a child when adoption decisions should be made on a case-by-case basis, according to what’s in a child’s best interest. Each case is unique. For example, adoption authorities may have the choice between placing a child with a beloved single aunt — or complete strangers. The only consideration should be determining what’s in the best interest of the child.”
Duh.
Totally, 100% agreed. Just because Brewer made two good moves (vetoing the guns-on-campus and birther bills) doesn’t mean she’s somehow miraculously gotten less crazy. The fact that GOP wingnuts are out-crazying her should provoke a serious examination of conscience within the Republican Party, but we all know how likely it is that THAT will happen…
As a lesbian adoptive Mom, this just infuriates me. Ask my daughter. I may not be a perfect Mom but I’m damn good because I love her NO MATTER WHAT. And I will match ANY straight couple! No one can love my daughter like I do. And God HELP anyone who would stand between me and my daughter. There is NOTHING like a mother’s love – gay or straight!
I was shocked by wingnut Jan’s action in regards to the birhter bill and what not. She is till 100% wingnutty! Is she up for election in the next election? I am wondering if she is trying to distance herself a little from the far right wingnutters?
I believe that the Arizona legislature is now at the top of the heap of complete a******s. Never in my entire life would I have imagined that here in America elected representatives would succumb to such insidious dumbness such as suggesting that a man’s genitals be inspected as “Proof” (?) of citizenship! Did it occur to them that in this, the 21st century, many baby boys are not circumcised anymore? Many enlightened parents realize that hacking off parts of a baby’s genitals is not their prerogative. It’s his body and he can make that decision when he is an adult (which he isn’t likely to want to do :) ). Also, suppose the candidate is a woman? Does she have to have certification that she doesn’t possess uncircumcised male genitals between her legs?
You f*****g Republicans shout about wanting “SMALLER, LESS INTRUSIVE” government and yet are going all out to overwhelmingly intrude in peoples’ lives in the most horrible ways. Nothing is too personal anymore! What the hell has happened to common sense?
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