You know where we stand on Senate Hate Bill 68. Gary Tapp Tapp Tapp has a serious case of the Daniel Mongiardo Gay Panic [TM] and is focused 100% on making sure that the terrifying homosexuals cannot foster or adopt children in the Commonwealth of Kentucky.
If you’re worth your weight, known homosexuals and allies, you’ll do your part to kill this bill.
Start contacting every member of the 2009 Senate Standing Committee on Judiciary:
- Bob Stivers, Chair
Home: (606) 598-8575
Annex: (502) 564-8100 ext 623 - Katie Stine, Vice Chair
Home: (859) 781-5311
Annex: (502) 564-3120 - Perry Clark
Home: (502) 366-1247
Annex: (502) 564-8100 Ext. 715 - Carroll Gibson
Home: (270) 230-5866
Annex: (502) 564-2450 - Ray Jones
Annex: (502) 564-8100 Ext. 681 - Gerald Neal
Home: (502) 776-1222
Annex: (502) 564-8100 Ext. 718 - Jerry Rhoads
Home: (270) 825-2949
Annex: (502) 564-2470 - John Schickel
Home: (859) 384-7506
Annex: (502) 564-8100 Ext. 617 - Dan Seum
Home: (502) 749-2859
Annex: (502) 564-2450 - Jack Westwood
Home: (859) 344-6154
Annex: (502) 564-8100 Ext. 615
Flood their homes and offices with calls and emails.
As the Fairness Campaign’s latest press release points out, SB68 would cause children to lose their homes and would greatly burden the state budget.
The deceptively-worded hate bill is identical to a measure recently passed in Arkansas prohibiting adoption or foster care by an applicant “cohabitating with a sexual partner outside of a marriage that is legally valid in Kentucky.” If it’s passed, the state would be forced to provide millions and millions for additional foster care. It’s an irresponsible burden to add to our economic crisis.
“We literally can’t afford to play politics with these children’s lives,” said Fairness Campaign Director Chris Hartman. “Hundreds of children are awaiting adoption each day in Kentucky, and it should be our politicians’ jobs to find them a home, not to categorically eliminate potential loving parents with an anti-gay political attack.”
Also: Stop Senate Bill 68 on Facebook.
And support House Bill 72, which would include definitions for sexual orientation and gender identity relating to Kentucky’s civil rights chapter. The legislation would prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender.
4 responses so far ↓
1 Shelby Countian // Feb 16, 2009 at 2:31 pm
Thank you so much for posting this. We need to make sure our voices are heard!
2 AtUofL // Feb 18, 2009 at 9:19 am
I am currently a foster parent to a young boy, who had been placed with a heterosexual married couple. He was abused and neglected by members of this family. HELLO??? There are real issues and concerns that need to be dealt with in the foster care system. And why are we wasting a minute on this nonsense? Whomever is backing this bill needs to be put out on the street…and fast!
3 I really hate this state // Feb 24, 2009 at 9:50 pm
First KY wants to take away the rights of Gays and Lesbians and now they want to refuse unmarried straight and gay couples from adopting children? Is it just me, or is Kentucky more worried about making problems then solving the ones we already have?
4 jake // Feb 24, 2009 at 9:53 pm
This doesn’t affect heterosexual couples.
The proposed legislation ONLY affects those who cannot be legally married in the Commonwealth of Kentucky. That means same-sex couples.
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