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April 22, 2005Rally to Save Texas FamiliesBy Karl-Thomas MusselmanI'm floating this up since the event is in a few hours. The following is from Jake Holbrook, director of StandOut, recognized as the "Best New Organization" on campus this year. What: Save Texas Families Rally and Protest Why:
We will not tolerate this kind of discrimination. We will stand together. We will fight. We will make ourselves heard. Jake Holbrook
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I just want to point out that there are not 43,000 gay/lesbian/bisexual people currently fostering children. There are only a little over 17,000 children in foster care in the entire state. Randall Ellis of LGRL has said before that there are 43,000 gay and lesbian households in the state, and that is likely where this statistic originally came from. Posted by: Neesha at April 21, 2005 10:50 AMOoops, thanks for the corrections. Posted by: Karl-T at April 21, 2005 11:20 AMI just saw the story on CNN... are there any petitions going around? Where would I look to put together names, etc. to present to legislators? I could not believe it when that moron from Pasadena said that "some of us know that children are better off in orphanages" than with gay,lesbian couples. Please advise! Posted by: Cass at April 21, 2005 02:14 PMWhy is a family "gay" if the foster parents are? Are you aware of some evidence that gayness rubs off on children in the proximity, making the whole family gay? I would think a family is a family, regardless of the sexuality of some of the members... BTW, am I the only one who has trouble understanding why conservative "Christians" have far more hate for gays than they have love for children? So much so that they would rather children have no family at all than to have gay foster parents? It's a good thing there is no way to tell if donated food was dropped off by a gay person, they might destroy it rather then feed the poor. Posted by: Seth at April 21, 2005 03:15 PM
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