OT Child in viral Portland police hug photo missing, 5 family members dead after California cliff crash

My house is in the hills. They'll have to walk up

 

They found one of the three missing children. It was on last night's KATU news.

 

You must have been a Boy Scout to have prepared for all eventualities.

Peter Blythe, the local attorney, was my scout master. Out meetings were at my church, Christ Episcopal. And here I thought I was well prepared.

 

It appears that these women should have never been allowed to adopt these kids. I think they were given a pass because they are same sex parents and lots of red flags were overlooked, in an effort to promote equality or the ability of same sex parents. This makes me sad on many levels.

 

When I saw they were a same sex couple at the beginning of this story I was like "shit, now a bunch of conservative jackoffs are going to say this is why gay couples are EEEEEVILLLLLEEEEE and shouldn't ever adopt."

Obviously, you're not a jackoff, but there are complete mouthbreathing shitheads out there spouting this shit off too, and that makes me sad.

 

I don’t consider myself to be homophobic (or misogynistic for that matter). I have same sex parents within my own family and consider them to be wonderful parents. But when details of this tragedy started emerging I had exactly the very same thoughts as @donkiez and I think he expressed himself extremely well. If you think he (and I) are mouth breathers, then that’s on you. Sometimes as a society we DO go overboard in an effort to be “fair”. And I feel that is very valid in this case. Please don’t shoot the messenger.

 

I think it's two completely different opinions.

One is that they shouldn't have been allowed to adopt BECAUSE they're lesbians.

The other, which is what I think Donkiez was trying to say, is that they should never have been allowed to adopt because of the kind of people that they were, and the only reason why they were was because they're lesbians and it looked good on paper.

So one side is using it as justification that same sex couples shouldn't be allowed to adopt at all, which is bullshit, whereas the other opinion might be in line with taking a closer look at equity and diversity, because while it's great that the state was allowing same sex parents to adopt, they shouldn't be overlooking red flags simply because they really really really want a same sex couple to get the kids.

It's the same argument that we hear with affirmative action. The black guy or the woman should get the job because they were the best candidate, not because they were the only black guy or woman.

 

I didn't take it as an insulted directed at me or you. I think they meant the homophobic right will use this as an outlier example to trumpet as a reason why they told us that same sex people shouldn't be parents.

I do mouthbreath however. and I can be kind of a shithead.