28 responses so far ↓

• 1 Jay Nast // Feb 14, 2009 at 10:50 am

  Yet Gary thinks the world of you, Jake.

• 2 Rick's wife // Feb 14, 2009 at 12:07 pm

  I must comment on this issue. As when you run into people being racist or cruel, saying nothing is wrong and leaves the impression that you are in agreement.

  There are so many children needing homes and so many citizens not wanting to pay the taxes necessary to keep these children safe and help place them in loving homes. Rick and I would love to adopt a family of three we are aware of in foster care. My having cancer in the last years prohibits us from adopting the three in which we have open hearts and an open home. We have to wait….I can only hope these three get placed in the meantime. The oldest will be 18 within 3 years.

  There are so many in need. Through Rick’s coaching little league, and our children’s and neice and nephew’s schools, some of the best parents in my opinion are those of a committed same sex marriage (CA) and relationships with adopted children.

  We have a society in the false name of religion has contributed to the increase of foster children. Those same people do not wish to pay the price in taxes, donations or adopting themselves, but they further want to contribute to not only the financial cost but the collective emotional cost of these children living in institutions waiting for that small percent chanCe that someone will “pick them” and give them a loving home.

  The gay community has done the opposite and has stepped up to take care of these children with love and support. By the way these are the biological children of a male and a female (in and out of marriage) that with some small exceptions, physically and/or sexually abused their own children!

  Mr. Tapp, do you see the flaws in your logic!

  Limiting the chances of these children is cruel and damaging to these children. Did you know a child in foster care is babysat and not nurtured or mentored or loved in many instances? Did you know a child that is only fostered and not adopted is turned out to the streets in homelessness, when they turn 18 with zero support? It is shameful that this happens in the U.S.

  All americans should have the right to love and adopt! All children should have the maximum possibility of being adopted and loved!

• 3 Ray Re // Feb 14, 2009 at 1:26 pm

  Simple solution here for gays wanting to adopt..just claim that relationship is sexless. A lot of hetero married couples could relate to that :-)

• 4 C.J.S. // Feb 14, 2009 at 1:56 pm

  I have a proposal for an amendment to SB 68 (BR 930): Strike “is cohabitating with” and replace with “has” to make it read: “by an applicant who has a sexual partner outside of a marriage”

  Then let the bigots defend voting for adultery when they block the amendment. If it is approved, the courts will (God willing) strike it down.

• 5 Bill Adkins // Feb 14, 2009 at 3:25 pm

  How about a ban on Gary Tapp’s family ever procreating again? Prior such events haven’t worked out too well. BTW, you’ve upset Martin Cothran. — Good work.

• 6 Bruce Maples // Feb 14, 2009 at 3:55 pm

  I’m so sick and tired of people like Tapp who want to make it illegal for gays to adopt — yet wouldn’t even think of a similar law for divorced people, or alchoholics, or racists.

  And did you catch the “relative caregiver services” clause? That means that if a child is orphaned, he cannot go live with his gay aunt. Now THAT’S showing concern for that child.

• 7 anon // Feb 14, 2009 at 5:19 pm

  As a straight woman raised in part by a gay man I find this abhorrent.

  By my read I couldn’t be a foster/adoptive parent either if I lived with a man. Assuming, of course, that we were having sex…would they have to secretly bug the house to prove we were???

• 8 bestmid // Feb 14, 2009 at 7:47 pm

  Hey Society, how about outlawing single, troubled women with six children artificially creating eight more little squirrels for you to raise? Tapp is the kind who prefers Kentucky slow, fat and stupid. He looks better that way.

• 9 jake // Feb 14, 2009 at 11:16 pm

  How about making it illegal for smokers to foster or adopt?

  Or obese people?

  I mean, good god. Let’s make it illegal for anybody with halitosis, as well.

• 10 Republican // Feb 15, 2009 at 12:27 am

  Is this bill really targeted at gays, or is it targeted at heterosexual shack-up couples and gay couples get caught in the crossfire?

• 11 Thunder Storm // Feb 15, 2009 at 1:04 am

  Ole Gary Tapp Tapp and Richie Farmer are big buddies.

  Remember that when he decides to announce he is running for Governor.

• 12 Jimmah // Feb 15, 2009 at 11:37 am

  Re: Republican– It’s targeted at gay couples; heterosexual shack-up couples exist in demographics that, by and large, aren’t interested in adoption. So while I can’t comment on Sen. Tapp’s motives, I’ll choose to believe that he’s simply wrong (and targeting people he shouldn’t), as opposed to incompetent(and targeting people to whom the condition of the statute didn’t apply).

  And Jake? Two words, brother: hog farm. Nothing serious. But you’ll get a kick out of it.

• 13 Novena // Feb 15, 2009 at 1:27 pm

  “Love & Law”

  Tapp needs more than a tap on the head to wake up from his 13th-century dreaming. Gary, love is higher than any KY law, including any you would like to create. One wonders if you have ever given love to any child who has no parents.

• 14 Shelby Countian // Feb 15, 2009 at 5:23 pm

  We need people to speak out against this bill. Please, please take some time to write, email, or call your state legislator and tell them you’re not happy with this bill.

• 15 Jimmah // Feb 15, 2009 at 5:41 pm

  Re: Shelby Countain

  We’ll do that, you make sure he’s opposed in his next election.

• 16 jake // Feb 15, 2009 at 5:43 pm

  Surely the Republican Party of Kentucky and the Kentucky Democratic Party (okay, maybe not KDP) could field solid, non-ignorant candidates in Shelby County?

  Maybe?

• 17 wc // Feb 15, 2009 at 5:49 pm

  Keep up the heat on people like this; it is the only way change can happen.

• 18 Ray Re // Feb 15, 2009 at 6:11 pm

  Every time I see the word despicable I can’t get Daffy Duck out of my mind. PS Ralph Reed is a ventriloquist’s dummy. Tap that and you’ll get splinters.

• 19 Polar // Feb 15, 2009 at 10:22 pm

  This is exactly what I hate about Kentucky politics, and what makes we want to go after the brickheads who are my Sen and Rep (Tapp isn’t one, but mine’s just as morally bankrupt). We have a massive budget shortfall, but our leg doesn’t have the time or nads to address it properly in any of the last 3 sessions, but they take the time to attack (fill in blank) gay, poor, welfare recipients, state college employees, kids, seniors, etc. I’d say Tapp and his a-hole friends in the GA ought to be ashamed of themselves, but they’re not capable of a whit of self-criticism.

  Tapp’s bill is a direct attack on the families (yes they have them) of gay people, as well as cohabitating straights who wish to adopt, even if they’re legally married in Mass, Cali, or whatever of many foreign countries where gay people may marry legally. It cannot be construed any other way. The fact that the real victims would be the kids who could have been adopted, but instead will languish in foster care or orphanage situations, is something Tapp doesn’t care about, quite obviously.

  I am convinced that there aren’t more than 8-10 people in both houses of the General Assembly who deserve their jobs, give a happy damn about human beings in general, or who have the common sense that God gave jumbo shrimp. Maybe we all should run. Can’t be any worse than it is now?

• 20 Michelle // Feb 16, 2009 at 10:56 am

  Stuff like this just leaves me so incredibly sad. I know I need to find my righteous anger but instead I just get sad and start questioning our choice to move back home and make our lives in Kentucky.

  My partner and I both try very hard to do good in our community and will continue to do so but damn if this isn’t frustrating and doesn’t make me feel like any good work gay people do in this state is returned with a kick to the gut.

• 21 jake // Feb 16, 2009 at 10:59 am

  Thankfully you live in Louisville where we have a fairness ordinance and even our Republicans are sane.

  For the most, the Commonwealth is a loving and accepting place. We just have a few bigots here and there who can’t survive if they don’t try to legislate hatred and discrimination every couple years.

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• 23 Mr. D // Feb 17, 2009 at 7:48 pm

  Gary Tapp is not an idiot. He is a politician in a state that toes the line on the guns, gays, and god agenda. Like Jimmah from the 15th I won’t question his motives.

  I agree speak up against the bill, but the hate speech in this blog is worse than anything that I have ever heard come from Gary Tapp or his family, and I taught two of his children several times over at least six years. “…a ban on Gary Tapp’s family ever procreating again”, get serious! Gary and his children are honest, hardworking people. They have gone out of their way for others when they had nothing to gain from it. The world could use more people like that, and while I am much too liberal to ever agree with his politics, I am dumbfounded that the Kentucky Democratic Party cannot offer a suitable opponent in any regional or statewide office. Perhaps it is because the alternative to the Republican Party in Kentucky is too many people who want to call their opponent “an inhuman piece of shit”. Grow up Left; I am tired of losing because we are not able to outline our position without resorting to the very hatemongering that we claim to resent from the Neocons.

• 24 jake // Feb 17, 2009 at 8:00 pm

  Hate speech? HAHAHAHA.

  Yeah, standing up to bigotry is so hateful and wrong. Damn us fags to hell.

• 25 Zack // Feb 27, 2009 at 12:28 am

  I’ll tell them to pass the bill on one condition. Every single one who votes for it has to take in foster care kids. After all, who better then they to provide stable enviroments.
  I understand the people who passed the law in Arkansas have yet to step up.

• 26 Janice // Mar 1, 2009 at 9:42 am

  As a fellow Christian, I support Gary Tapp and his beliefs 100%. The USA was founded on Christian beliefs and it’s way past time we got back to them.

• 27 jake // Mar 1, 2009 at 4:46 pm

  Aww, how sweet, someone who condones hate and discrimination with their “religious beliefs”… heh.

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