Comments on: Florida gay adoption ban headed To State Supreme Court

By: Trace

Trace — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 01:48:43 +0000

TANK, That’s The War of Northern Aggression!

I actually live just a few miles from Kennesaw Battle Field.

By: Courtney

Courtney — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 16:58:13 +0000

I was raised by two gay women and they are the most stable couple I know. I am proud of them and I know I turned out just fine. Its not right that states like Florida are so openly dicriminatory of issues like these, it sickens me.

By: Josh

Josh — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 11:46:03 +0000

Its not that ALL southerners are backwards but that there are many more that are than those who arent.

By: TANK

TANK — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 06:51:53 +0000

You can’t compare FL to CA. FL is one of the only 2 states in the u.s. to ban gay adoption and foster parenting, and hopefully it will get reversed by the courts, not the people. It’s a horribly bigoted place despite the presence of an inexplicably (the weather?) large gay population in southern florida. It also bans gay marriage, civil unions and domestic partnerships in that state. CA does not ban gay adoption and foster parenting and allows domestic partnerships. SO please, don’t stick up for Florida–it’s got one of the worst track records on gay and lesbian rights in the country.

By: Ashley

Ashley — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 05:30:56 +0000

Some of you bashing the south sound like the ignorant bigots you claim southerners are. Where do you get your impressions of us, from Days of Our Lives? I live in Florida. Ever heard of Key West, South Beath, Gay Days in Orlando? We have quite a few cities with very large and visible gay populations. The Florida adoption ban was passed decades ago by a rabid activist who could have passed the same law in any state in that time period Please get off your northern snob high horses and remember that the gay marriage ban was just passed by the most holy and “tolerant” state of California.

By: TwoDaddyFamily

TwoDaddyFamily — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 03:17:05 +0000

Hallelujah!!! We as a two-daddy family live in neighboring Georgia in Atlanta, where we as a couple were granted JOINT legal adoptions at birth both times with our beloved daughter and and our beloved son, and we totally avoid spending our money in Florida because of their anti-adoption law. However, if the Florida Supreme Court follows up and repeals Florida’s anti-gay and anti-family adoption law, we’ll be more likely to vacation in Disney World down there. ~Rob & Clay Calhoun, husbands of 16 years )

By: TANK

TANK — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 03:12:58 +0000

ha ha ha, Trace, get outa town with that “northern yankee values” palaver! How many southern states recognize gay couples in civil unions and domestic partnerships even? Huh? “WHy I do declare, suh, that them yankees don’t cotton to our ways…” Like slavery and biblical literalism, and gay bashing! Are you a civil war reenactor? LOL!

By: Trace

Trace — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 02:53:43 +0000

Tiger, ya know most the issues we have are with Yankees.

I’ll take the gayborhoods of Atlanta over San Francisco or Chelsea any day of the week.

By: TANK

TANK — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 01:31:02 +0000

Forty year old notions? C’mon, the south is full of uneducated bigoted slobs at a higher rate than new england. Overall, of course…there’s pockets of poverty/ignorance and stupidity in new england just as in the south. But this notion that the south is a bastion of tolerance and educated well meaning people is absurd…it’s not…lots of those “vicious” stereotypes are dead on.

By: John B

John B — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 00:14:33 +0000

Well said, Tiger Tzu! I am sick of reading really bigotted statements about Southerners in 365. We are not all redneck H8ers. Back when I was a kid still living in Tennessee, the KKK tried to have a rally there. All the participants were bussed in from Pennsylvania (so much for the ‘blue’ states)! The local churches, black and white, liberal and conservative, stood together and encouraged the local population not to attend. Less than 20 people came out to watch the Klan parade and most of those were journalists. I would urge your readers to discard their 40 year old notions of the South and actually visit some of these places. They might find out that they are much more tolerant of diversity than urban centres like NYC or LA. They are not perfect, and, yes, there are some racists and homophobes, but no more so than anywhere else I’ve ever lived (including LA, Sydney and London).