Thanks to David Williams, Senate Hate Bill 68 is dead for the time being.

But that doesn’t change that it’s targeting gay adoption and is a bill directly from the Family Foundation/Association that promotes discrimination.

For a common sense take on why SB68 is bad news, read Jody Cofer’s take:

Flash back to 2004.

Proponents of a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage repeatedly claimed it would not be used to further curtail the rights of Kentucky’s gay and lesbian citizens. Yet, those same people have done just that. Taking advantage of the granddaddy of all catch-22’s, they have attempted to push an anti-gay agenda by restricting equal access to healthcare and now adoption and foster care by unmarried couples.

Make no mistake – the push to ban unmarried co-habitating adults from foster care and adoption is targeted at gays and lesbians who, by law, cannot marry in the state of Kentucky. Not unlike the tuna fisherman who catches a stray dolphin in his widely-cast net, the Family Foundation of Kentucky is willing to snag an opposite-sex couple or two in its quest to proclaim gays and lesbians as second-class citizens, unworthy of having families. It’s all in a day’s work.

But if common sense isn’t your thing and you’re keen on obfuscation, denial and dishonesty, get a load of what Richard Nelson of the Family Foundation has to say:

State policy has always placed limits on prospective adoptive and foster homes. Financial status, criminal history, health and age are all factors considered to determine the best home for kids. Cohabitation has never been viewed as a positive for children. So what has changed? Nearly every state has laws recognizing marriage between one man and one woman. So does the federal government. Some speculate gay political activists seek to normalize their relationships through adoption law. After all, if they can have children and parent like heterosexual couples, then why not give them all the legal rights of marriage? That’s the argument anyway.

By nature, it takes one man and one woman to procreate. And it takes both a man and a woman – a father and a mother – to provide role models for a child’s healthy development.

In 2006, the Catholic Charities of Boston was forced to end its 100-year history as the largest non-profit adoption provider in the state of Massachusetts because they refused to place children in cohabiting homosexual homes.

This is not a fight that advocates of the traditional family picked. It’s one gay political activists are waging, and children have become pawns in this latest skirmish over sexual politics. In the end, adoption is about securing the best possible home for children. It shouldn’t be about finding children for people who want to further an agenda.

Interesting that Nelson says it’s not about the gays, that SB68 has nothing to do with them. But then he spends a full third of his column to explain that marriage is between one man and one woman.

One would think that if it weren’t about homophobia… maybe the Family Foundation wouldn’t contradict itself and spend all of its time talking about how terrible the gays are? Just a thought.