Ohio adoptive parents must be Democrats...

...if a new bill introduced by State Senator Robert Hagan becomes law.

Hagan's bill is clearly tongue-in-cheek but he is doing it to make a very serious point. The bill is in response to a Republican proposal to prohibit gay adoption and foster placement.

Hogan even writes that "credible research" shows that adopted children raised in Republican households are more at risk for developing emotional problems, social stigmas, inflated egos, and alarming lack of tolerance for others they deem different than themselves and an air of overconfidence to mask their insecurities.

How far out of reality do you have to be to think a child would be better off in a home situation bad enough to warrant foster care, but heterosexual? If homosexual couples would like to open their homes to take care of foster children or adopt any of the thousands of children that need to be adopted in this country, we should be thanking them, not spitting in their face.

Luckily, the Republican bill to ban homosexuals from adoption does not have the support of the House leadership.