As the natn awas lgs two same-sex marriage s pendg before the Supreme Court, gay upl are already well to another battle--one that may be
Contents:
- PL RYAN ON GAY RIGHTS: 'I DON'T KNOW WHY WE ARE TALKG ABOUT THIS'
- PL RYAN'S GAY RIGHTS HISTORY
- GAY ADOPTN: PL RYAN'S REFUL CHANGE OF POSN
- PL RYAN’S NO. 1 HATER CALLS HIM A ‘GAY TROJAN HORSE’QUEER TACTICSTHE NGRSMAN IS THE TROJAN HORSE OF THE HOMOSEXUAL LOBBY, ACRDG TO ONE MAN—WHO WILL STOP AT NOTHG TO PREVENT RYAN OM BEG SPEAKER OF THE HOE.GION RNICKPOLIL REPORTERUPDATED APR. 13, 2017 6:26PM EDT / PUBLISHED OCT. 22, 2015 1:00AM EDT PHOTO ILLTRATN BY SARAH ROGERS/THE DAILY BEASTSOME NSERVATIV THK THAT PL RYAN, THE BLUE-EYED PRI OF WISNS, IS MAKG TOO MANY MANDS AS HE NSIRS A N FOR SPEAKER OF THE HOE.OTHERS THK HE IS A TROJAN HORSE FOR THE HOMOSEXUAL LOBBY.NOT NECSARILY OTHERS, BUT OTHER. SPECIFILLY EUGENE DELGD, A UNTY SUPERVISOR VIRGIA AND HEAD OF THE GAY-BASHG ANIZATN PUBLIC ADVOTE OF THE UNED STAT.DELGD, WHO SPEAKS A BERNIE SANRS-LEVEL THICK NEW YORK ACCENT AND WEARS GLASS REMISCENT OF STANLEY TUCCI THE LOVELY BON, IS RPONSIBLE FOR A RECENT LETTER URGG THE GENERAL POPULACE, ANKLY ANYONE WHO WILL LISTEN, THAT RYAN IS NOT QUALIFIED FOR THE SPEAKER POSN BEE HE VOTED FOR THE EMPLOYMENT NON-DISCRIMATN ACT, WHICH DELGD REFERS TO AS THE “GAY BILL OF SPECIAL RIGHTS.” “NOW, RYAN THKS HE N HI OM HIS PAST RERD OF VOTG TO THROW NSERVATIV UNR THE B AS HE NS FOR THE MOST POWERFUL POSN THE HOE,” DELGD WROTE A LETTER THAT APPEARED AN AD ON THE DDGE REPORT HOMEPAGE, LIKELY NTRIBUTG TO THE “LOT OF CLICKS” HE SAID HE WAS GETTG OVER THE PAST FEW DAYS.“THAT’S WHY AFTER YOU LL 202-224-3121, I NEED YOU TO SIGN YOUR PETN TO YOUR CONGRSMAN TOO AND TELL THEM, ‘A VOTE FOR PL RYAN FOR SPEAKER IS A VOTE AGAST TRADNAL VALU.’”DDGE, WHO OBVLY DIDN’T RPOND TO A REQUT FOR MENT FOR THIS PIECE, HAS BEEN LS THAN KD TO RYAN SCE HIS ANNOUNCEMENT TO NSIR THE SPEAKER POSN TUDAY NIGHT, LLG HIM A “DEM FAVORE” AND “OBAMA’S NEW PARTNER.”THE LETTER NCLUS WH A PLEA REQUTG A “MOST GENERO NTRIBUTN” TO SUPPORT THE PUBLIC ADVOTE, WHICH HAS BEEN SIGNATED THE PAST AS A HATE GROUP BY THE SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER.“WE FEEL THAT ENDA WILL BRG DISCRIMATN TO CHRISTIANS AND OTHER BELIEVERS OF TRADNAL MARRIAGE AT THE WORKPLACE,” DELGD SAID A PHONE TERVIEW AFTER CLARIFYG THAT I WAS A REAL PERSON AND THAT THE DAILY BEAST WAS A REAL PUBLITN.“THAT WAS AN TENTNAL JOKE FOR YOU!” HE YELLED AFTER I SISTED THAT, TO MY KNOWLEDGE, I WAS AN ACTUAL HUMAN BEG. “SO YOU’RE YOUNG ENOUGH TO KNOW THAT OLD PEOPLE N MAKE JOK.”DELGD IS 60 AND HE STARTED PUBLIC ADVOTE 1981, AN ANIZATN HE TO STAGE THGS LIKE A “MAN-DONKEY MOCK WEDDG CEREMONY” AT GAY-RIGHTS MARCH. HE MAK SOME $150,000 A YEAR THIS SELF-APPOTED POSN AND WIELDS THE BULLY PULP TO TARGET PEOPLE LIKE PL RYAN AT WILL.“MR. RYAN’S VOTE FOR [ENDA],” HE NTUED, BACK TO THE BS AT HAND, “WE THK, IS AN DITN THAT MR. RYAN WILL NTUE THIS ASSLT ON CHRISTIAN AND TRADNAL VALUE BELIEVERS.”“IS PL RYAN A HOMOSEXUAL?” I ASKED.“NO, WE DIDN’T SAY THAT,” DELGD RPOND.RYAN’S OFFICE DID NOT RPOND TO A REQUT FOR MENT FOR THIS ARTICLE.THIS IS NOT THE FIRST TIME DELGD HAS WARNED THE MASS ABOUT THE EVILS LURKG OUR MIDST. IN 2010, HE CLAIMED THAT THE PAT-DOWN PROCR STUTED BY THE TSA WERE A THLY VEILED EXTENSN OF THE HOMOSEXUAL AGENDA. HE ALSO ONCE TOOK UP THE RIGHTEO E OF NAMG MILTON FRIEDMAN’S BIRTHDAY, “MILTON FRIEDMAN DAY.”“ARE YOU GETTG A PULZER PRIZE FOR THIS?” DELGD ASKED MID-TERVIEW BEFORE NTUG TO RAIL AGAST RYAN.“MR. RYAN IS ASKG AMERINS, MEMBERS OF THE CONGRS—THEY’RE ALL AMERINS—HE’S ASKG MY FELLOW AMERINS THE U.S. CONGRS TO SURRENR THEIR RIGHTS AS AMERINS TO CHALLENGE THE LEARSHIP. HELL NO!” HE SCREAMED, CLIPPG THE TOP OF THE SOUND REGISTER ON MY RERR.BEE DELGD IS SO EFFIVE ABOUT RYAN’S ABILY TO BE THE SPEAKER OF THE HOE, I WONRED WHO ELSE HE MIGHT THK IS A VALUABLE REPLACEMENT. HE SUGGTED THE MAN FORMERLY KNOWN AS DEMOCRATIC PRINTIAL NDIDATE: JIM WEBB.“HE’S AVAILABLE, ISN’T HE? I THK I WOULD TST HIM AHEAD OF MR. RYAN AS FAR AS STICKG TO HIS GUNS AND NOT PROMISG,” DELGD SAID ABOUT A MAN WHO NSIRED NOT NNG AS A DEMOCRAT SO AS TO HAVE A BETTER SHOT AT THE PRINCY.IT IS UNCLEAR HOW BIG THE LOOSELY CRAFTED PUBLIC ADVOTE ANIZATN IS AND DELGD DIDN’T ILLUMATE ANYTHG ABOUT S SPE ON THE PHONE. BUT HIS NSTUENTS LOUDOUN COUNTY HAVE EXPRSED DISNTENT WH THE ANIZATN OVER THE YEARS AND HE WAS STRIPPED OF A BIG SHARE OF HIS BUDGET AND MANY STAFFERS 2014 FOR NOT RPONDG TO CIZEN REQUTS AND TREATG HIS EMPLOYE BADLY. THE SUPERVISOR POSN SELF IS A PART-TIME JOB SO MANY POLIL LAWS DON’T VER HIS ACTNS OFFICE.WHICH GIV DELGD MORE TIME TO SEND OUT WARNGS ABOUT “RADIL HOMOSEXUALS” WHO “WILL TERRORIZE DAYRE CENTERS, HOSPALS, CHURCH AND PRIVATE SCHOOLS.”“YOU’LL SEE MEN HAND--HAND SKIPPG DOWN TO ADOPTN CENTERS TO ‘PICK OUT’ A LTLE BOY FOR THEMSELV,” HE WROTE LAST YEAR.NOW HE HAS 48 HOURS TO SEE IF REPUBLINS WILL BE RPONSIVE TO HIS GRASSROOTS TACTICS, BEFORE RYAN HIMSELF MAK THE FAL LL. AND FOR THE MOMENT, DELGD IS JT HAPPY GETTG HIS NAME OUT THERE.“I’M HONORED TO BE TERVIEWED BY THE DAILY BEAST,” HE SAID AFTER ASKG IF I WAS “THE TOP WRER.” “IT’S LIKE BEG NATNAL REVIEW OR NATNAL LAMPOON.”I DIDN’T BOTHER EXPLAG THE DIFFERENCE TO HIM. GION RNICK
- PL RYAN, GAY RIGHTS, AND THE SHIFT OF SOCIAL CONSERVATISM
- PL RYAN POSSIBLE PRINTIAL MPAIGN, 2016/GAY RIGHTS
- PL RYAN GAY ADOPTN: IS HIS SUPPORT A BIG AL?
PL RYAN ON GAY RIGHTS: 'I DON'T KNOW WHY WE ARE TALKG ABOUT THIS'
Mt Romney's nng mate is a man who, like Romney himself, once supported gay rights -- and I do mean jt one time -- only to n far away when he need to genuflect before cultural nservativ. * paul ryan on gay rights *
Mt Romney's nng mate is a man who, like Romney himself, once supported gay rights -- and I do mean jt one time -- only to n far away when he need to genuflect before cultural nservativ.
Pl Ryan actually tried to kill a gay rights bill jt mut before he voted "aye. " Or, as Pl Schdler at Gay Cy News puts , "he voted agast [the Employment Non-Discrimatn Act] before he voted for . ) It was the end of Ryan's very brief and tepid flirtatn wh gay rights.
In 2011, he supported a nstutnal amendment Wisns to ban marriage for gays and lbians the state's nstutn. Back 1999, his first year the Hoe, Ryan voted to ban gays and lbians the District of Columbia om adoptg children, and opposed tablishg a domtic partnership registry the District as well. (Predictably, a fleetg 10 ratg is enough to send validatn-starved gay Republins to spasms of light over the choice of Ryan as Romney's nng mate.
PL RYAN'S GAY RIGHTS HISTORY
Hoe Republins were engulfed a nasty civil war Thursday, as angry social nservativ helped torpedo a route spendg bill a fight over gay rights. * paul ryan on gay rights *
)When the topic of gay rights up now, Ryan acc the media of focg on a meangls issue and tri to change the subject. "Actually, I me on to talk about the bt crisis we have and the budget, and I thk that's the drivg issue of this electn, " he said when asked about gay marriage on Meet the Prs this past Febary.
Ryan fds himself the middle of yet another Republin civil war as the battle over LGBT rights has e to Congrs, threateng to divi an already actured is a fight the speaker do not want to have — pecially a petive electn year which prumptive GOP printial nomee Donald Tmp’s ndidacy is already tearg the party fight lated on Thursday when shortly before an expected vote over an energy and water spendg bill, Hoe Republins held a private meetg which many vented their tratns over language passed late Wednday to bar discrimatn agast lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr employe of feral ntractors, acrdg to several people the spendg bill failed a 305-to-112 vote — along wh the LGBT language troduced by Rep. Sean Maloney, an openly gay New York Democrat.
WASHINGTON — Hoe Republins were engulfed a nasty traparty civil war Thursday, as angry social nservativ helped torpedo a route spendg bill a fight over gay rights that is further dividg a party already riven by the ndidacy of Donald battle pos a major challenge to Speaker Pl D.
GAY ADOPTN: PL RYAN'S REFUL CHANGE OF POSN
Pl Ryan's History On Gay Rights * paul ryan on gay rights *
The fight over gay rights not only threatens to tar the party's image among morate voters but also has the potential to rail Ryan's efforts to pass a budget and keep the ernment fund past Oct.
Many Democrats voted agast the measure to prott nservative provisns that would have rtricted gay and transgenr durg a news nference at the Capol, Ryan acknowledged that his party is divid and that mt e together on this and other issu if hop to w November and ern the days beyond.
"For months, a culture war has raged at the state and lol level as lawmakers have sparred over gay marriage, relig eedom and, most recently, the rights of transgenr people to e the public bathroom of their choice. But earlier this month, Print Barack Obama issued an executive orr directg public schools to acmodate lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr stunts, a move that furiated social nservativ the Hoe.
PL RYAN’S NO. 1 HATER CALLS HIM A ‘GAY TROJAN HORSE’QUEER TACTICSTHE NGRSMAN IS THE TROJAN HORSE OF THE HOMOSEXUAL LOBBY, ACRDG TO ONE MAN—WHO WILL STOP AT NOTHG TO PREVENT RYAN OM BEG SPEAKER OF THE HOE.GION RNICKPOLIL REPORTERUPDATED APR. 13, 2017 6:26PM EDT / PUBLISHED OCT. 22, 2015 1:00AM EDT PHOTO ILLTRATN BY SARAH ROGERS/THE DAILY BEASTSOME NSERVATIV THK THAT PL RYAN, THE BLUE-EYED PRI OF WISNS, IS MAKG TOO MANY MANDS AS HE NSIRS A N FOR SPEAKER OF THE HOE.OTHERS THK HE IS A TROJAN HORSE FOR THE HOMOSEXUAL LOBBY.NOT NECSARILY OTHERS, BUT OTHER. SPECIFILLY EUGENE DELGD, A UNTY SUPERVISOR VIRGIA AND HEAD OF THE GAY-BASHG ANIZATN PUBLIC ADVOTE OF THE UNED STAT.DELGD, WHO SPEAKS A BERNIE SANRS-LEVEL THICK NEW YORK ACCENT AND WEARS GLASS REMISCENT OF STANLEY TUCCI THE LOVELY BON, IS RPONSIBLE FOR A RECENT LETTER URGG THE GENERAL POPULACE, ANKLY ANYONE WHO WILL LISTEN, THAT RYAN IS NOT QUALIFIED FOR THE SPEAKER POSN BEE HE VOTED FOR THE EMPLOYMENT NON-DISCRIMATN ACT, WHICH DELGD REFERS TO AS THE “GAY BILL OF SPECIAL RIGHTS.” “NOW, RYAN THKS HE N HI OM HIS PAST RERD OF VOTG TO THROW NSERVATIV UNR THE B AS HE NS FOR THE MOST POWERFUL POSN THE HOE,” DELGD WROTE A LETTER THAT APPEARED AN AD ON THE DDGE REPORT HOMEPAGE, LIKELY NTRIBUTG TO THE “LOT OF CLICKS” HE SAID HE WAS GETTG OVER THE PAST FEW DAYS.“THAT’S WHY AFTER YOU LL 202-224-3121, I NEED YOU TO SIGN YOUR PETN TO YOUR CONGRSMAN TOO AND TELL THEM, ‘A VOTE FOR PL RYAN FOR SPEAKER IS A VOTE AGAST TRADNAL VALU.’”DDGE, WHO OBVLY DIDN’T RPOND TO A REQUT FOR MENT FOR THIS PIECE, HAS BEEN LS THAN KD TO RYAN SCE HIS ANNOUNCEMENT TO NSIR THE SPEAKER POSN TUDAY NIGHT, LLG HIM A “DEM FAVORE” AND “OBAMA’S NEW PARTNER.”THE LETTER NCLUS WH A PLEA REQUTG A “MOST GENERO NTRIBUTN” TO SUPPORT THE PUBLIC ADVOTE, WHICH HAS BEEN SIGNATED THE PAST AS A HATE GROUP BY THE SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER.“WE FEEL THAT ENDA WILL BRG DISCRIMATN TO CHRISTIANS AND OTHER BELIEVERS OF TRADNAL MARRIAGE AT THE WORKPLACE,” DELGD SAID A PHONE TERVIEW AFTER CLARIFYG THAT I WAS A REAL PERSON AND THAT THE DAILY BEAST WAS A REAL PUBLITN.“THAT WAS AN TENTNAL JOKE FOR YOU!” HE YELLED AFTER I SISTED THAT, TO MY KNOWLEDGE, I WAS AN ACTUAL HUMAN BEG. “SO YOU’RE YOUNG ENOUGH TO KNOW THAT OLD PEOPLE N MAKE JOK.”DELGD IS 60 AND HE STARTED PUBLIC ADVOTE 1981, AN ANIZATN HE TO STAGE THGS LIKE A “MAN-DONKEY MOCK WEDDG CEREMONY” AT GAY-RIGHTS MARCH. HE MAK SOME $150,000 A YEAR THIS SELF-APPOTED POSN AND WIELDS THE BULLY PULP TO TARGET PEOPLE LIKE PL RYAN AT WILL.“MR. RYAN’S VOTE FOR [ENDA],” HE NTUED, BACK TO THE BS AT HAND, “WE THK, IS AN DITN THAT MR. RYAN WILL NTUE THIS ASSLT ON CHRISTIAN AND TRADNAL VALUE BELIEVERS.”“IS PL RYAN A HOMOSEXUAL?” I ASKED.“NO, WE DIDN’T SAY THAT,” DELGD RPOND.RYAN’S OFFICE DID NOT RPOND TO A REQUT FOR MENT FOR THIS ARTICLE.THIS IS NOT THE FIRST TIME DELGD HAS WARNED THE MASS ABOUT THE EVILS LURKG OUR MIDST. IN 2010, HE CLAIMED THAT THE PAT-DOWN PROCR STUTED BY THE TSA WERE A THLY VEILED EXTENSN OF THE HOMOSEXUAL AGENDA. HE ALSO ONCE TOOK UP THE RIGHTEO E OF NAMG MILTON FRIEDMAN’S BIRTHDAY, “MILTON FRIEDMAN DAY.”“ARE YOU GETTG A PULZER PRIZE FOR THIS?” DELGD ASKED MID-TERVIEW BEFORE NTUG TO RAIL AGAST RYAN.“MR. RYAN IS ASKG AMERINS, MEMBERS OF THE CONGRS—THEY’RE ALL AMERINS—HE’S ASKG MY FELLOW AMERINS THE U.S. CONGRS TO SURRENR THEIR RIGHTS AS AMERINS TO CHALLENGE THE LEARSHIP. HELL NO!” HE SCREAMED, CLIPPG THE TOP OF THE SOUND REGISTER ON MY RERR.BEE DELGD IS SO EFFIVE ABOUT RYAN’S ABILY TO BE THE SPEAKER OF THE HOE, I WONRED WHO ELSE HE MIGHT THK IS A VALUABLE REPLACEMENT. HE SUGGTED THE MAN FORMERLY KNOWN AS DEMOCRATIC PRINTIAL NDIDATE: JIM WEBB.“HE’S AVAILABLE, ISN’T HE? I THK I WOULD TST HIM AHEAD OF MR. RYAN AS FAR AS STICKG TO HIS GUNS AND NOT PROMISG,” DELGD SAID ABOUT A MAN WHO NSIRED NOT NNG AS A DEMOCRAT SO AS TO HAVE A BETTER SHOT AT THE PRINCY.IT IS UNCLEAR HOW BIG THE LOOSELY CRAFTED PUBLIC ADVOTE ANIZATN IS AND DELGD DIDN’T ILLUMATE ANYTHG ABOUT S SPE ON THE PHONE. BUT HIS NSTUENTS LOUDOUN COUNTY HAVE EXPRSED DISNTENT WH THE ANIZATN OVER THE YEARS AND HE WAS STRIPPED OF A BIG SHARE OF HIS BUDGET AND MANY STAFFERS 2014 FOR NOT RPONDG TO CIZEN REQUTS AND TREATG HIS EMPLOYE BADLY. THE SUPERVISOR POSN SELF IS A PART-TIME JOB SO MANY POLIL LAWS DON’T VER HIS ACTNS OFFICE.WHICH GIV DELGD MORE TIME TO SEND OUT WARNGS ABOUT “RADIL HOMOSEXUALS” WHO “WILL TERRORIZE DAYRE CENTERS, HOSPALS, CHURCH AND PRIVATE SCHOOLS.”“YOU’LL SEE MEN HAND--HAND SKIPPG DOWN TO ADOPTN CENTERS TO ‘PICK OUT’ A LTLE BOY FOR THEMSELV,” HE WROTE LAST YEAR.NOW HE HAS 48 HOURS TO SEE IF REPUBLINS WILL BE RPONSIVE TO HIS GRASSROOTS TACTICS, BEFORE RYAN HIMSELF MAK THE FAL LL. AND FOR THE MOMENT, DELGD IS JT HAPPY GETTG HIS NAME OUT THERE.“I’M HONORED TO BE TERVIEWED BY THE DAILY BEAST,” HE SAID AFTER ASKG IF I WAS “THE TOP WRER.” “IT’S LIKE BEG NATNAL REVIEW OR NATNAL LAMPOON.”I DIDN’T BOTHER EXPLAG THE DIFFERENCE TO HIM. GION RNICK
* paul ryan on gay rights *
Sean Maloney, an openly gay Democrat om New York, to lnch a ncerted mpaign to w Hoe approval for a petg measure that would strengthen the provisns of Obama's executive orr by nyg payment to feral ntractors that discrimate.
Skip to Ma ContentPl Ryan's History On Gay RightsRomney supports amendg the U. Ryan, speakg on gay rights, has said, “I believe fundamentally that marriage is between a man and a woman. Clarke Cooper of the Log Cab Republins, a gay rights group, said, “Congrsman Ryan’s vote favor of the Employment Nondiscrimatn Act and his nsistent willgns to engage wh Log Cab on a range of issu speaks to his rerd as a fair-md policy maker.
PL RYAN, GAY RIGHTS, AND THE SHIFT OF SOCIAL CONSERVATISM
Although his fisl views are well known, where do VP pick Pl Ryan stand on abortn, gun laws, gay rights, immigratn? * paul ryan on gay rights *
As the natn awas lgs two same-sex marriage s pendg before the Supreme Court, gay upl are already well to another battle--one that may be ls high-profile nature, but jt as important to fai—the right to legally adopt Monday former vice printial nomee and nservative darlg Rep. Pl Ryan of Wisns knocked the issue to the spotlight when he reversed his stance on gay adoptn, signalg jt how far public opn has e embracg LGBT rights. "Ryan add that he still oppos gay marriage, dampeng the reactns of LGBT advot.
PL RYAN POSSIBLE PRINTIAL MPAIGN, 2016/GAY RIGHTS
BY ARI EZRA WALDMAN Reprentative Pl Ryan (R-WI) is an affable, smart, and dited nservative who ed the benef of his nate tellectual talents and his safe seat Congrs to propose a budget -- the now "Romney/Ryan Budget" -- that aims to attack the natn's impossibly high bt. Though you may disagree wh his particular policy proposals, that Mr. Ryan proposed a game-changg budget is a good thg: We need to start havg ser nversatns about tax and entlement reform. But, if we settle for the pablum g om the talkg heads on the left and right, we don't get the full picture of the soclogil signifince or Mr. Ryan's selectn, pecially the field of gay rights. Mr. Ryan's selectn as Mt Romney's nng mate is, fact, a great sign of our natn's progrs on gay rights. Most progrsive media outlets are salivatg over Mr. Ryan's ntroversial budget, his "radil" polil iology, and his anti-gay and anti-women vot (he voted for the Employment Non-Discrimatn Act (ENDA), but first tried to kill ), suggtg that he will be a lightng rod that galvaniz progrsiv, crystalliz the le of attack agast Mr. Romney, and propels Print Obama back to the Whe Hoe. But, Mr. Romney's choice shows that not only do he want this entire electn to be about the enomy, but that he realiz the only way today's arch-nservative Republin Party n w is by hidg s arch-nservative views on social issu, general, and gay rights, particular. Whereas the last , Print Bh's team orchtrated Mr. Bh's re-electn by highlightg Republin views on same-sex marriage, the selectn of Mr. Ryan -- a vol fisl nservative who simply don't like to talk about his rabid social nservatism -- shows that even though the party is not ready to make substantive chang to s platform, s lears are worried that the world is startg to pass them by. Let's make one thg clear: Mr. Ryan has been and will be steadfastly anti-gay his policy posns and vot. He is no iend to the gay muny. And yet, the Pl Ryan selectn marks a sea change Republins' views on the effectivens of social nservatism to w electns. It is a small, but signifint step toward full equaly for gay Amerins. CONTINUED, AFTER THE JUMP... * paul ryan on gay rights *
”Ryan’s evolutn on gay adoptn, however, is signifint. “It signals where we’ve e Ameri, ” add have shown that gay parent adoptn has some of the fastt-growg support among Amerins recent s. In a pair of December USA TODAY/Gallup polls, for example, 61% of those surveyed said that gay people should have the right to adopt children, more than double the support seen 18 years ago.
Dpe the growg number of alli, however, gay upl hopg to adopt still face nsirable opposn. Durg oral arguments the Supreme Court se challengg Proposn 8, California’s ban on same-sex marriage, Jtice Anton Slia voiced a monly held nvictn among opponents to both gay marriage, and gay parent adoptn--that allowg gay people to adopt may some way harm children. But over 25 stat, adoptn laws for same-sex upl are unclear, pecially when to send-parent adoptn--a practice that allows parents same-sex relatnships to adopt their partner’s stat have legal rtrictns preventg gay upl om petng for send-parent adoptn, and availabily is uncerta another 30 stat.
As a rult, gay parents often have no legal rights to their own kids, which prevents them om makg medil cisns, leavg property, or even seeg their children certa circumstanc. For this reason, many nservativ like Ryan have an easier time supportg gay rights when to providg hom for the astronomil number of children currently livg whout before supportg same-sex marriage, Print Obama ed the exact same logic when he me out favor of gay adoptn.
PL RYAN GAY ADOPTN: IS HIS SUPPORT A BIG AL?
“A child will benef om a healthy, lovg home, whether the parents are gay or not. Though he don’t support marriage equaly now, “support for gay adoptn has tend to be a steppg stone toward stronger support for gay rights other forms, ” said Talkg Pots Memo Sahil Kapur on msnbc Wednday.