Senator McCain covers his eyes when children are being abused.When George Stephanopoulos asked McCain if he would rather leave a child in foster care instead of allowing gay parents to adopt, all he could say was, "I am for the values and principles that two-parent families represent". In other words, he is so buried under his fundamentalist beliefs that he would rather leave children in abusive homes or in foster care than put them into a loving supportive home with two people who happen to be gay.
Keep in mind that American taxpayers pay an estimated $40,000 per child per year for foster care.
As someone who lived a nightmarish existence as a child, I would have welcomed gay parents. But noooooo... McCain would rather see children abused and neglected. Don't believe me? Watch this:
In 2006, an ABC News report produced the following statistics:
- On September 30, 2004, 518,000 children were in the U.S. foster care system. Most children are placed in foster care temporarily due to parental abuse or neglect.
126,000 children are currently available for adoption. - More than 20,000 children each year never leave the system -- they remain in foster care until they "age out."
- Thirty percent of the homeless in America and some 25 percent of those in prison were once in foster care.
With those statistics, riddle me this... If you were in the foster care system, would you prefer future prison or homelessness over a stable upbringing with gay parents who love you?
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