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During a debate Thursday between Kentucky Senate candidates Rand Paul and Jack Conway, Paul gave an interesting reason as to why he feels the Department of Education should be abolished.
According to Think Progress:
I would rather the local schools decide things. I don't like the idea of somebody in Washington deciding that Susie has two mommies is an appropriate family situation and should be taught to my kindergardener at school. That's what happens when we let things get to a federal level. I think I would rather have local school boards, teachers, parents, people in Paduka deciding about your schools and not have it in Washington.
Paul's comments are the height of ignorance. According to a March 2007 report by Gary Gates, Lee M.V. Badgett, Jennifer Ehrle Macomber, Kate Chambers of the Urban Institute:
* More than one in three lesbians have given birth and one in six gay men have fathered or adopted a child.
* An estimated 65,500 adopted children are living with a lesbian or gay parent.
* Gay and lesbian parents are raising four percent of all adopted children in the United States.
* An estimated 14,100 foster children are living with lesbian or gay parents.
* Gay and lesbian parents are raising three percent of foster children in the United States.
And according to a 2010 study by Brian Powell, a sociology professor at Indiana University, as reported in The New York Times, a majority of Americans say that their definition of a family now include same-sex families.
So the question has to be just where does Paul think these children attend school? In some secret government lab?
Seriously, I always chuckle to myself when someone attempts to tap into a phony hysteria about children being "forced to be taught" about same-sex households.
Common sense should tell Paul, and the rest of us, that neither the federal nor state governments have to teach children about same-sex families because they are already aware of same-sex families. Children do talk amongst themselves about their families, you know.
And some of these families most likely contain two mothers or two fathers.
I will wager that they have less of a problem with it than us adults. They probably wonder what in the world is all the fuss about.
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Post to Facebook.Post to Blogger.Post to Twitter.Post to WordPress.Post to TypePad.Post to Tumblr.Post to Yahoo! View All Favorites Recency | Popularity garagenoir 1 minute ago (8:47 AM) 105 Fans The definition of "manning up" in the GOTP lexicon: use your position of privilege to attack a minority. garagenoir: The definition of "manning up" in the GOTP lexicon: use http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/garagenoir/rand-paul-attacks-same-se_b_765136_63903728.html Permalink | Share it HUFFPOST PUNDIT Jdaddy1951 2 hours ago (6:48 AM) 448 Fans Follow I'm a single gay dad. I've raised seven kids --- biological, adopted, and fostered. My kids are happy, well-adjusted adults. Some of them have kids of their own.Rand Paul's comments are an insult to me, my kids and my grandkids. Even my cat, Dixie Sugarbelle, is plumb disgusted with him. Jdaddy1951: I'm a single gay dad. I've raised seven kids --- http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/Jdaddy1951/rand-paul-attacks-same-se_b_765136_63900017.html Permalink | Share it FriarTuck13 2 hours ago (6:34 AM) 12 Fans Guess what Mr. Paul. We don't want you deciding either. I agree with the writer kids have less of a problem with it than adults. For kids it is what it is. It is their family and they are more excepting. For a adults it is just another way of butting into some one's family with their agenda as to how a family dynamic should be. Honestly the right-wing Mad Tea Party zagnuts should hang it up smart people are just not buying it. FriarTuck13: Guess what Mr. Paul. We don't want you deciding either. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/FriarTuck13/rand-paul-attacks-same-se_b_765136_63899770.html Permalink | Share it Angelaaaa 5 hours ago (4:00 AM) 230 Fans Most of today's gay parents were probably brought up in hetero families. I am betting that most of the gay teenagers committing suicide today were brought up in hetero families.
Heterosexual parenting isn't really a guarantee of any type of self-anointed success, is it? Angelaaaa: Most of today's gay parents were probably brought up in http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/Angelaaaa/rand-paul-attacks-same-se_b_765136_63897322.html Permalink | Share it HUFFPOST PUNDIT Jdaddy1951 2 hours ago (6:51 AM) 448 Fans Follow I agree with you in principle, but I don't like the implication of your comments that the parents of the recent suicide victims failed their kids in some way. I think they have enough grief to deal with without having the added burden of strangers suggesting in a meat-handed way that they caused their children's deaths.
But I agree, that sexual orientation of any kind is no indicator of whether someone is a successful parent or not. Jdaddy1951: I agree with you in principle, but I don't like http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/Jdaddy1951/rand-paul-attacks-same-se_b_765136_63900067.html Permalink | Share it Angelaaaa 2 hours ago (7:18 AM) 230 Fans In the future, if suicide rates of gay teens brought up by gay parents is substantially different ... well, we shall see. Angelaaaa: In the future, if suicide rates of gay teens brought http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/Angelaaaa/rand-paul-attacks-same-se_b_765136_63900641.html Permalink | Share it There are More Comments on this Thread. Click Here To See them All HUFFPOST PUNDIT Freesia2 7 hours ago (1:52 AM) 1590 Fans He knows his audience Alvin. It's the "Bible Belt". In saying something like that to the holy rollers there it made him sound like a "solid family man" who wants "Big Government" out of decisions.
No thought of course to the children of parents who are stuck there, if the local's decided everything, who would have to send their kids to a school where they're taught Jesus rode a dinosaur and be told to hate certains groups of people. Nope. Who might graduate and get out and find themselves backward and 3 steps behind when dealing with the rest of the world. Or worse - might get brainwashed and small brained....They want their local government to wield an even heavier slap and a firmer control than Big Government ever could. They'd probably be happier if they could just have a cult and call it a day.
But anyway - he was playing to a demographic. He may even believe it but...he's Randy Paul. What he really believes it that he wants to get elected. Freesia2: He knows his audience Alvin. It's the "Bible Belt". In http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/Freesia2/rand-paul-attacks-same-se_b_765136_63893162.html Permalink | Share it HUFFPOST PUNDIT Jdaddy1951 2 hours ago (6:53 AM) 448 Fans Follow Quit dismissing everyone who lives in Kentucky as someone who is a holy roller religious type. Please take note that not everyone who lives there is a supporter of Rand Paul --- that's part of the reason why he and Jack Conway are running so closely in the polls. Jdaddy1951: Quit dismissing everyone who lives in Kentucky as someone who http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/Jdaddy1951/rand-paul-attacks-same-se_b_765136_63900108.html Permalink | Share it dragn1 7 hours ago (1:31 AM) 17 Fans Nice so you are making this an attack that he is anti gay as opposed to being in favor of decisions being made at a local level. dragn1: Nice so you are making this an attack that he http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/dragn1/rand-paul-attacks-same-se_b_765136_63892224.html Permalink | Share it TheBaffler 7 hours ago (1:44 AM) 207 Fans You can spin it all you like, but he's clearly anti-gay. TheBaffler: You can spin it all you like, but he's clearly http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/TheBaffler/rand-paul-attacks-same-se_b_765136_63892843.html Permalink | Share it Blak 6 hours ago (2:31 AM) 82 Fans This rant about school decision being made at the local level does not hold any water. Its obvious how standards in the south are ridiculous already. How would those students fare in colleges and institutions in other areas that may have higher standards? This states rights crap is just a campaign issue trotted out by republicans to pander to the simpler folks . Blak: This rant about school decision being made at the local http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/Blak/rand-paul-attacks-same-se_b_765136_63894846.html Permalink | Share it stavros 6 hours ago (2:41 AM) 153 Fans Well said.
Let us privatize is their call. stavros: Well said. Let us privatize is their call. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/stavros/rand-paul-attacks-same-se_b_765136_63895227.html Permalink | Share it reviewingthesituation 17 minutes ago (8:31 AM) 73 Fans Jim Crow laws were the ultimate "local level" laws.
The U.S. Constitution is the supreme law of the land. Obama didn't just decide that. It was so stated by its creators. If you don't care for constitutional government, you have all kinds of countries availble where "local laws" predominate, including Afghanistan. reviewingthesituation: Jim Crow laws were the ultimate "local level" laws. The http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/reviewingthesituation/rand-paul-attacks-same-se_b_765136_63903069.html Permalink | Share it New comments on this entry — Click to refresh Loading comments… Loading twitter module... Most Popular on HuffPost1D6W1lj5M6WK9G8HrrNmPqByFNHhKlRJ89w5FbafauTrFfd81RWn%2BaQ1%2BHHmV06DQcoVM7KLTy4TmitlTk7FvQ%3D%3DCvAnOteXEp223IerqcDhw5BVOrc3vXjuX7R2r0o7k2tlWiCQnEb%2F2xjRdTPVmEeNd70bly8H1sK%2BSqCtArkbtQ%3D%3D1 of 2 Whoopi, Joy Walk Off 'The View' After Heated Fight With O'Reilly
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