Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site dartvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!cbdkc1!desoto!packard!edsel!bentley!hoxna!houxm!mtuxo!mtunh!mtung!mtunf!ariel!vax135!timeinc!phri!pesnta!amd!amdcad!decwrl!decvax!dartvax!holly From: holly@dartvax.UUCP (Holly Cabell) Newsgroups: net.motss,net.kids,net.singles Subject: Re: Gay fostercare ban: more news Message-ID: <3310@dartvax.UUCP> Date: Mon, 1-Jul-85 04:26:52 EDT Article-I.D.: dartvax.3310 Posted: Mon Jul 1 04:26:52 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 2-Jul-85 06:25:38 EDT References: <1470@bbncca.ARPA> <2429@mit-hermes.ARPA> Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH Lines: 21 Xref: watmath net.motss:1797 net.kids:1414 net.singles:7593 > > More developments in the ongoing protest against the legislation > > in the Massachusetts House effectively banning gays, singles, & > > "nontraditional families" from foster care, guardianship, & adop- > > tion (it's a rider on a budget bill, & heavily supported by liberal > > Democrats, including the Governor): [long posting follows: go read it.] > > I want to present an alernative view to Ron Rizzo's here. Dukakis faces a > possibly tough reelection campaign next year, very likely against a Catholic > Joe Sixpack type, Ed King. Their two previous electoral bouts (they won one > each) split the state's Democrats on class lines as well as political ones. > [another long posting, read it too.] I hate to disagre with you, but I don't feel it is right to sacrifice a moral issue, just so that we can have a governor that is not a homophobe (right word?). I think it is more important to have the bill shot down. If this other guy is elected, then we'll have him for a few years, then we can elect someone more in our frame of mind. Anyway, I feel the moral issue should be settled before we start to think of the political ramifications, even if the 'real' world doesn't follow that example, it should. --johnc at [the.world] ! dartvax ! holly -- --johnc at [the.world] ! dartvax ! holly