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What an asswipe.
And that, my friends, prooves- beyond any shadow of a doubt- that homosexuals are good parents.
I don't take offense at this, as a married woman; I can have accidental children that I don't want or am not ready for. My gay friends cannot. Doesn't mean I, personally, am a less fit parent, it's just basic logic.
and it makes Dan angry...
Durham (gay) man faces long prison term for sex crimes against adopted child
http://www.wral.com ^ | Mar 30, 2010 | WRAL News
Posted on Wednesday, March 31, 2010 3:39:52 PM by Maelstorm
Durham, N.C. — A former Duke University employee should serve "a substantial period of incarceration" followed by a lifetime of supervision for sex crimes against a child, according to sentencing guidelines for the crime filed last week in district court.
The man invited an undercover police officer to Durham to have sexual contact with his adopted 5-year-old son.
Frank M. Lombard, 43, was sentenced Monday to 27 years in prison. He pleaded guilty in December to a federal child sex charge. He was arrested in June after authorities said Washington police caught him in a sting operation.
Lombard was charged with attempting to induce someone to cross state lines to engage in a sexual offense. He pleaded to sexual exploitation of a minor, a charge which carries a maximum sentence of 30 years in prison.
In recommending the sentence, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. wrote, "The defendant betrayed the trust of his adopted child in the most deplorable way imaginable. His child became nothing more than a pawn in his persistent attempts to gratify himself by sexually molesting him and chatting online with as many other pedophiles as possible."
Lombard was fired from his position as associate director of the Center for Health Policy at Duke in July and has been in a D.C. jail since August.
In court documents, an undercover member of the Washington Metropolitan Police Department described an online chat in which someone named "F.L." invited him to Durham to have sexual contact with his adopted 5-year-old son.
The officer made contact with "F.L" after an informant told FBI agents that he saw a man called “cooper2” perform sex acts on a young African-American child via online chats on multiple occasions. The informant's description of "cooper2" corresponded with the description of Lombard.
The man is career politician, he wants to run for President. He's saying what is needed to gain support. It think it is unlikely that he would politically, let alone personally, lift a finger to help children in foster care. Like others who claim to be pro-children, he'd rather see children live feeling rejected, than allow them a home and a family where the are wanted. Maybe, he and his ilk will prove me wrong. I pity him.
Gay people are sometimes irresponsible in their parenting behavior.
And that, my friends, proves- beyond any shadow of a doubt- that heterosexuals are good parents.
they are wanted
Some gay people are gonna be bad parents.
Some straight people are gonna be bad parents.
Some black people are gonna be bad parents.
Some white people are gonna be bad parents.
Some purple people are gonna be bad parents.
What's your point?
The same point that is made in
"Every Child Deserves a Mother and a Father"
Comprehensive sex education in accordance with the ethical and moral values of the parents or close family caretakers can take place and has taken place since human existence without having to insert the teaching of homosexuality. Support begins at the home and as such the priorities and governmental aid need to place first in helping to solidify stronger families. Whether it is thru "federally-subsidized daycare" or educational after school programs for households headed by a single parent. To place more importance on failed cases where abortions take place or to advocate for birth control for minors, or the teaching to the underage of behaviors that are medically known to carry with them higher health risks is tantamount to provoking and legitimizing the detrimental effects that destroy stronger, responsible and productive families in the first place.
..from breeder mills..
The Daily Mail
A paedophile ring has been smashed after eight men were found guilty of a horrifying catalogue of more than 50 child pornography and abuse charges.
Among the crimes was a shocking sexual attack carried out on a three-month-old baby boy by an executive adviser on child sex issues.
James Rennie, chief executive of a publicly-funded gay rights group, was one of the men exposed yesterday as members of Scotland's biggest paedophile ring.
One of the most worrying aspects of the case is the way Rennie was able to reach a position where he could influence Executive policy on child sexuality.
Under his leadership, the group backed proposals to allow gay adoption.
Rennie, 38, molested the toddler son of unsuspecting friends - a little boy he had been trusted to babysit - recording the abuse and sharing it with other perverts.
In the course of the police investigation, the boy's parents were forced to watch a video of their baby son being violated by Rennie.
During their investigations, police recovered tens of thousands of still and moving images of the most vile child abuse.
One of the most worrying aspects of the case is the way Rennie was able to reach a position where he could influence Executive policy on child sexuality.
A trained teacher, Rennie became the boss of LGBT Youth Scotland, a publicly-funded support group for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender young people.
He took on the £40,000 a year role when the group was set up in 2003 and became the Executive's most important and influential adviser on gay issues affecting children.
Under his leadership, the group backed proposals to allow gay adoption. As well as appearing in the Scottish parliament, he was invited to a Royal Garden Party and to Downing Street.
Yesterday, Rennie, from Edinburgh, was found guilty of indecently abusing the baby boy. The abuse began when the child was three months old and continued for several years. Rennie filmed and photographed himself committing the abuse, sent the images to others and allowed another man to listen on the phone while he molested the child.
He allowed the boy, whom he called his 'nephew', to be abused by another paedophile and also offered him to other deviants in a series of emails.
That's exactly what we're saying.
Also, it is frankly offensive the way you suggest that all gay men are pedophiles, which is simply a hateful lie.
@26: The point we like to make (and the point that you have been trying to make) is that how good a parent is has nothing to do with their sexual orientation. So in that case, we should give homosexuals, heterosexuals, and bisexuals equal rights to adoption, since orientation doesn't really matter. Why yes, that sounds good to me!
Or maybe we should only let asexuals adopt, since they aren't sexually attracted to anything and therefore will never go all Pedobear on their adopted kids. You like idea?
@24 makes the same point that is made in
"Every Child Deserves a Mother and a Father" .
Is Dan suggesting in "Every Child Deserves a Mother and a Father" that all heterosexuals are child abusers!?
Should we be frankly offended?
In the face of any historical or contemporary cross-cultural review of how human beings actually form families, this statement of Huckabee's is rendered meaningless. You could say the only "fundamental" definition of family is "older humans taking care of younger humans", but even that fails in some cases.
This whole "traditional marriage" commentary is uniquely an appeal to a non-existent "ideal world" based, unhappily, on a profound lack of acceptance and compassion for other people. It's exactly like saying, "we should return to the way it was in the olden days". Devoid of useful meaning, save that of creating in- and out-groups. Us vs. Them.
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/4…
(because Huckabee's kid was involved in some crazy abuse/slaughter of a dog incident)
According to Dan the Durham man Lombard (@12) is "an openly gay man "
He had a partner and had adopted two African-American boys....
Gays who want to adopt do so out of a profound love and desire for children. The hurdles they must face in adoption weed out the weak-willed and unready. Gays who don't want to children, simply don't have children. Heterosexuals who don't want children may end up with children anyway.
Again, this is not an indictment against Heterosexuals' child-rearing abilities. There are clearly millions of "straight" families who want and love their children very much, and who's children excel in school. But statistically speaking, more children of "gay" parents do better in school, because they are explicitely loved and wanted, than do children of "straight" parents.
According to the Daily Mail the gang in the case @24 were Gay:
"Gay rights campaigner led a double life as leader of paedophile ring"
In addition to Rennie the gang included
John Murphy, 44, who worked as a DJ in a Gay bar, receptionist ay a Gay sauna and as a journalist for the Gay Times.
Neil Strachan, 41, and his boyfriend
Colin Slaven, 23.
and
Neil Campbell, 46, a cake shop manager who ran an after-school club for children, "led a double life with a gay partner"...
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-…
What do some teachers say about how well children adopted by heterosexual parents do compared to the adoptive children of gay couples?
Do some teachers take into account family income?
The private school educated trophy adopted kids of well off gay couples might outperform the average, just possibly...
So, my question, that I know will be ignored by all of the anti-gay-adoption crowd, is this. Is it better for a child to live in an orphanage and/or bounce around from foster family to foster family OR for them to live with a "not quite as good" gay couple? I'm serious, I would really like to hear you explain this to me.
42
You make a good point.
Society should take measures to reduce the number of children born to parents who aren't ready to be parents and improve foster services.
The whole "Free Sex" and "Safe Sex" myths need to be exposed.
Pre/extra marital sex exacts a cruel toll from the children it produces.
Gay does not = pedophile. Try again ignoramus...
Your argument would then infer that straight men couldn’t adopt because they would be too tempted to molest little girls.
So who is worthy of adopting?
How many wealthy stable homosexual couples willing to adopt are we talking about?
We'll need some hard numbers before we can consider your proposal...
Don't forget the CEO of Wal-Mart signed the petition that placed this issue on the ballot. So, the next time you find yourself shopping in the shithole, better known as Wal-Mart, you are supporting jerk-offs like Mike Duke and Mike Huckabee.
If you actually cared about the children, you'd realize that.
@1 Made me grin, bucking to be the new Swift?
sorry to say it, but your simple question will never be answered by antigay adoption crowd. I've asked it a few times, often directed at a particular person- nothing. They can't openly admit their view :"children should remain orphans instead of being adopted by loving parents, yes, we hate gays that much"
Even LC, being sheer undiluted evil, has enough shame not to admit that is what "she" believes.
@ 6, 12, 24, 26, 37, 39, 40, 43, 45 (I am really sorry if I missed anyone...)
I am really bored of having to deal every day with small, self-rightious, grumpy, anorgasmic, know-it-alls that have a banana for a brain. People arrogant enough to know what is the best for other people, people that think they own the world and they can decide for it. People stuck 'their' beliefs like a gum at the sole of a shoe; unable to read, listen or understand anything outside what government, religion and media spoon feeds them with.
These people say staff like: "We'll need some hard numbers before we can consider your proposal..." as if they belong to their own decision group and every one else is outside of it. @45 I hope you really did not mean it.
So addressing to those little self rightious people I described above and hoping that none of you belong to this category: Who gives you the right to consider anything fuckheads? Who do you think gave you the right to judge other people as peadophiles, perverts etc. especially when perversity is a result of society's inability to accept human's sexuality and it thrives behind closed doors and religious cycles.
Freaks.
For the record I am as straight as it goes.
P.S. I consider posts 12, 24, 37 to be offensive to gay people as they aim with selective examples to conclude that gay people do not qualify for parents because they are peadophiles; this is done by generalising and disregarding cases of straight peadophile/abusing parents while these cases are far more common. Therefore if you remove my post as offensive to those people then these posts should be removed as well as offensive to gay people.
First of all, I am in full support of gay couples adopting children.
However, I do object to the assumption that unmarried straight people who accidentally get pregnant will become bad parents. I have several people in my family who are single (or were) single parents. Some of them are better parents than others, but that doesn't mean they don't love their kids. That doesn't mean that their children would be better off if they were adopted by a gay couple.
Supporters of gay rights resent the assumption that all gay parents are inferior to straight parents. I resent the assumption that all single parents are inferior to gay parents.
He's a douchebag. Not a malicious douchebag, but a douchebag nonetheless.