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Three Days for Three Daughters

Over the next three days, the international Three Days for Three Daughters campaign will attempt to draw attention to the circumstances surrounding the plight of three Guatemalan girls, stolen and adopted by American couples: Anyeli Lisseth Hernandez Rodriguez Heidy Sarai Batz Par Arlene Escarleth Lopez Lopez and their Guatemalan families left behind. For a number […]

Filed under: Uncategorized on August 31st, 2009
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ACLU goes to court over Arkansas Act 1, the “Arkansas Adoption and Foster Care Act”

By way of follow up to my earlier post in the wake of the election, Sewing the scarlet “b”- California’s newest bastards, and other abysmal anti-Queer anti-child bastardization, the ACLU has taken Arkansas’ Act 1 to court. Back on November 4th, 57 percent of the state’s voters had approved the “Arkansas Adoption and Foster Care […]

Filed under: Uncategorized on December 31st, 2008
Tags: , "Arkansas Adoption and Foster Care Act", "gay agenda", ACLU, Act 1, adopotions, anti-Queer, Arkansas, Arkansas Department of Human Services, Arkansas Family Council, attempts to ban gay adoption, attorney general, attourney, best interests of children, blueprint, Boston, California, campaign, case by case basis, Cathy Webb, chariman, child bastardization, Child Welfare Agency Review Board, churches, co-habiting, cohabiting unmarried couples, constitutional rights, director, e-mails, executive director, Family Equality Council, finalized, Florida, foster children, Gay, gay marriage, gay organizations, Georgia, heterosexual, Jennifer Chrisler, Jerry Cox, language, lawsuit, legislative bans, legislative history, Little Rock, Marie-Bernarde Miller, married, national organizations, reversing policy, Rita Sklar, single, South Carolina, state ballot measures, straight, strike down, tactics, Tennessee, voters

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Orson Mozes and the perfect symbiosis

I’m not going to write a great deal about the details of the crimes Mozes is accused of, instead I’d prefer to point readers at this Naples Daily News piece that pretty well serves as a backgrounder, Miami police nab ‘Most Wanted’ suspect who was released in Collier. Also be sure to also see the […]

Filed under: Uncategorized on December 30th, 2008
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Adoption as a tool of cultural genocide, the “child grabs” Canadian First Nations peoples have endured

To start from a personal perspective, I’m just a Bastard, a politically active adoptee. Being legally prohibited from attaining my State sealed records, I have no idea what heritage cultural or genetic my biological family might contain, other than a quick glance in a mirror appears to indicate pretty clearly a hefty chunk of what […]

Filed under: Uncategorized on August 3rd, 2008
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