Sprintcyclist wrote on Aug 10^th, 2010 at 3:18pm:




I spent my childhood as a state ward in a foster home with heterosexual careers ... it was an extremely unhappy experience. I would of loved to be adopted by anyone ... single, gay couple, heterosexual couples whatever.

Yet heterosexual couples didn't want me ... gay couples and singles were not allowed.


Perhaps its time to stop the hatred and start thinking of the children.

abu_rashid wrote on Aug 11^th, 2010 at 7:22am:




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The foster careers had over 30, that's 30 children in their home over a period of years. I was the last and maybe this was part of the reason for my experience. As for the majority of children, they did a great job.

Also many of the children that spent time in the home were from abusive heterosexual couple parents ... I know at least one ended up in a mental institution and one ended up as a prostitute. A pair of twins was forced to work before and after school picking fruit and vegetables for no money and they where beaten. This is just a sample of the thirty.

At school, I heard other experiences from maltreated children from heterosexual parented children.

So yes some heterosexual couples make great parents ... and some should be banned from being near children.


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As for me being put into a home of a single parent or a gay couple as a child. I am sure I would of had a better chance of experiencing a better childhood as I did under heterosexual careers.

Single, defacto, gay couples or heterosexual parents ... all have the potential of giving loving homes to children.

Stop punishing children by forcing them into spending their childhood in institutions because there are not enough people to adopt.


Take a potential parent on their ability to love the child, rather than their partnership relation.


Put the children first for a change by burying your hatred of gay people.

That's a pretty touching post Greens.
It conjures images of a human child being treated like a puppy in a lost dogs home just waiting for somebody to give them a home.

Yeah, I'm sure that anybody willing to jump through the required hoops in order to provide a child a home would've been well worthy.
I doubt if it would've mattered one iota if it were a hetero or gay person/couple taking you to the circus or to the zoo, etc.

But nevermind too much if you can. Not many of us had the perfect childhood as portrayed on television anyway. The grass always appears a couple of shades greener than it actually is.
Many a child in a legally socially acceptable home has felt themselves to  be unwanted or a burden as well. And if the parents are abusive, then there is probably little choice other than to take the child away from an abusive environment.
But the logic in taking a child away from a place that some feeling of home to a place that has no feeling of home is debatable.

Sweet camouflaged poison? Is that another name for a pedophile in a priest's robe?

I think it's a bit precious of the churches to take a superior moral stance on this given their history of inaction.

With Abu Bakar Bashir's arrest by Indonesian authorities this week, I definitely don't see the Muslims taking superior moral ground either.

It seems to be a common theme within religions - inaction against barbarity of one form or another.

abu_rashid wrote on Aug 10^th, 2010 at 9:13pm:



The Stalinist hooves of your Islamist politics are showing. I said that this is NOT a gay rights issue. Too enlightened for you, Comrade Beria?