ugh. so your post, combined with CHS initial post, just triggered the hell out of me.
and it sucks cause i'm currently baked right now so i'm emotional. shout out to Arch.
this country confuses me more and more the older i get. crap just doesn't make any damn sense.
so, we have somewhere around half the population who doesn't support abortions. they call themselves pro-life....but they dont want to actually support pro-life policies, just the policy of not interfering in births.
because while you got upset at CHS for bringing up the pro-life phrase, it's absolutely valid in the sense that this bill discriminating against families wanting to adopt children for no other reason than that they are part of the LBGT is no pro-life whatsoever.
this bill didn't get passed for the children, this bill got passed for politicians and their donors own religious beliefs.
check this out. clicking on CHS's link, its a snippet of the full article here:
http://www.kansas.com/news/politics-government/article210442154.htmlso just breaking this specific instance down, we can see what the agenda.
starting with this.
The bill doesn’t apply to organizations that contract directly with DCF, allowing DCF to prohibit discrimination in placements. Agencies that refuse to place children with LGBT couples can continue to receive reimbursement from the state if they are making placements on behalf of a DCF contractor.
so for those who don't read links, the DCF is Kansas Department of Children and Families.
so DCF supported this bill, which is funny because this was stated earlier in the article:
“Catholic Charities and other adoption agencies are key to the fabric of our communities. I look forward to signing this bill because it increases the opportunities for needy children to find loving homes,” Colyer said in a statement early Friday.
so we can already reasonably assume that catholic charities were in on this. straight up.
which is why in other threads in the past when we've dwelled into adoption, i called it one of the biggest scams in america.
why?
How Much Does Domestic Infant Adoption Cost
For private domestic infant adoption (birth mother relinquishment) you can adopt through an adoption agency or through an adoption lawyer. Adoption costs vary depending on birth mother expenses, including medical costs for the expectant woman, adoption agency/adoption attorney fees, travel, failed adoption matches, etc. The range for an adoption agency adoption is from $5,000 to $40,000+, with almost 60% falling within $10,000 – $30,000, and the average being around $28,000. Some adoption agencies have a sliding fee scale where adoption costs are based on your income.
https://creatingafamily.org/adoption-category/how-much-does-it-really-cost-to-adopt/which means that kansas just past a bill giving religious charities an absolute monopoly on the adoption industry in their state.
nevermind the fact that the average cost of adoption is absolutely appalling.
nevermind the fact that this bill is discriminatory as all hell.
nevermind the fact that the adoption family pool just got LOWERED, further reducing the chance of these kids finding a loving home.
THEN, lets not forget: because of kansas trash republican leadership, the schools in that state had to move to a 4 day school week because of shrinking budgets. they lowered taxes out the ass in the state, reducing revenue that went to education, in the HOPES of an economic boom that NEVER HAPPENED.
so now on top of all that, the education standard got lowered, which means the kids going out into the world are gonna be less educated compared to students in some other states, which has been correlated with high birth rates among less educated populations, which will lead to MORE children in the adoption agencies, which sucks because they are being born in a state in which the number of families potentially adopting just shrunk due to the archaic and draconian legislation that they just passed.
there is absolutely zero evidence that supports the idea that those conservative politicians, or the people who voted for them btw because it is a lockdown red state, are pro-life.
they aren't pro-life. they are just pro-birth. because pro-birth = profits.