a preferable alternative to roadside kids hunting for squirrel

...which would be the Huckabee nutrition platform.

Of course, he could always just advocate a market solution, where unwanted babies are sold to the highest bidder with no regulation.  That sounds good and GOPpy.

He’s so consistently a douchebag. Why do people continue to read him?

How I long for the days of street urchins and pressgangs.  This country has just gone to hell since the pressgangs vanished.  The illegal immigration problem is a direct result of the loss of pressgangs.

Translation:  Pressgangs is a state issue.

This brand of opposition to gay adoption is so damned frustrating.

“I’m not bigoted against teh gay! Rather, I believe in a retarded gender dichotomy wherein women are warm and nurturing and men are Manly Manly Men!”

Facepalm.

Anyhow, it’s not like “state’s rights” on civil-rights issues has ever been much more than a code-word for green-lighting abuses.

Like it or not, kids do best in a 2 parent (mother and father, that is) environment.  Frankly, McCain’s 1st answer was fine.

Hi, tomofthebay!  Like it or not, YOU HAVE TO PROVIDE EVIDENCE WHEN YOU MAKE CLAIMS.  There is no evidence that children of two opposite-sex parents “do better” than children of two same-sex parents.  There is hardly any convincing evidence that children of two parents of any gender “do better” than children of one parent of any gender, when you factor out issues like poverty and bereavement.

But thanks for playing.

Like it or not, kids (like then-15 year-old Sidney MacCain)do better in a 2 parent environment when their dad isn’t humping an heiress who’s 17 years younger than poor crippled mom.

BZZZZZT!!!! Might want to check out the research there.

IIRC, research shows that two parents actually are better than one, statistically speaking.  There’s no evidence that those two parents have to be specific genders, however.

Gay parenting is apparently a preferable alternative to roadside kids hunting for squirrel and learning to read from the nutritional facts on discarded snack wrappers. 

Well (he said, continuing a theme from other days), feral kids have always tasted a touch too gamey for me. I prefer the farm-raised ones.

Like it or not, kids do best in a 2 parent (mother and father, that is) environment. 

Yeah, my son is really going to suffer from the fact that his mother and I have split. He would have been so much better off growing up in a house where his mom and dad were constantly sniping at each other.

Like it or not, kids do best in a 2 parent (mother and father, that is) environment.

Like it or not, gay people who actually wanted kids enough to go through an adoption (or IVF/surrogacy/sperm donation, whatever) make much better parents than idiot teenaged breeders whose pastor told them condoms cause cancer. 

I mean, it’s common knowledge.  Besides, if you can make up realities, so can I.  It looks like I can do it better than you can, too.

Even if true, the claim that kids do better in a home with two loving opposite-sex parents is rather like saying that it’s better for your health to be rich than to be poor. The kids in question are up for adoption, so Plan A is already out the window. And if there were enough loving opposite-sex couples ready to adopt all the kids who need adopting, then they’d already have been adopted. So Plan B is out the window too.

And for all Andrew Sullivan’s mealy-mouthed exegesis, “I don’t believe in gay adoption” is a pretty simple, straightforward statement. McCain might be lying when he says it, or he might have temporarily forgotten what his actual position is, but “I don’t believe in X” really doesn’t even mean “But I think X is OK if there are extenuating circumstances. It’s like the difference between an atheist and someone who only believes in one god.

And, oh, yeah, all the evidence shows that loving, responsible parent(s) is what you want, not some particular arrangement of their genitals (which, face it, the typical kid doesn’t spend that much time with anyway).

My favorite thing about the crazy fundyness is that they think it’s better for a child to live with one gay parent than with two.

“I don’t believe in gay adoption”

Believe, Senator: it exists.

“I think that we’ve proven that both parents are important in the success of a family so, no, I don’t believe in gay adoption,” he said.

Um, John “2 parents” is pretty vague if what you mean is mother and father. On the other hand, I would agree that two parents (and a whole lot of friends and paid caregivers) are definitely to be preferred in child-rearing (all other things being equal which they never are). Gender of the parents though, eh, not so important.
I like how Andrew Sullivan now has to put words into McSame’s mouth just to get a fig leaf of “state issue”. Is there nothing the Potomac courtiers won’t do for that man?