Re: APV: RE: Re: gay parents

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In a message dated 9/9/2004 9:32:32 AM Eastern Daylight Time, her...@indiana.edu writes:

Karen, with all due respect, the fact that Jane has done a lot for international adoption doesn't mean that this particular action was helpful or even justifiable.  I do appreciate your point that the culture tends to judge gay relationships using different (and less fair) criteria than state-sanctioned ones.  But I think the important point is that we all want to see Vietnamese adoptions reopened and that we'd like to protect the right to adopt for all good parents, and that there may be more appropriate venues for discussing the benefits of adoptions by gay couples -- for example, in trying to change laws in our own states and nation, over which we have at least some say in lobbying and at the polls.  Best, Margie (mom)

Yes, we would all like to see Vietnamese adoptions reopened.

We would like to protect the right to adopt for all good parents -- including those who happen to be lesbians or gay men.

I personally would not give out an interview, but then again, someone could do research and find a lesbian or gay man who had adopted from Vietnam.

Do you suggest that those lesbians or gay men hide their orientation from everyone?

The problem here is not the poor woman who worked for years on behalf of other people's children, finally had the opportunity to adopt her own child, spoke about her hopes, dreams, love, family and partners -- and this caused problems.

The problem is the bigotry and the prejudice -- whether it is here or in Vietnam or China or anywhere. It's a crime that children are dying in orphanages when there are a ton of individuals who might happen to be lesbian or gay who would make wonderful parents.

Beware, other countries might decide, for example, that they will impose other requirements. If the requirement excluded you how would you feel?

 

Susan

a mother

 

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In a message dated 9/9/2004 6:09:25 PM Eastern Daylight Time, her...@indiana.edu writes:

Protesting Vietnamese policies in a way that puts all adoptions at risk is not, in my view, justifiable.  You are welcome to differ.

Margie Hershey (mom)

I am not talking about "protesting Vietnamese policies". I am talking about blaming parents because they talk about their lives, it gets published, and then maybe (we're told) it has an adverse affect on adoption.

 

Susan

Mother