Jim Walace is such a cunt.
Yeah, I know, I promised I wouldn’t, but it’s another ACL blog post.
As some of us are probably aware, NSW is currently considering a bill to allow gay couple to adopt. Just like they already do in parts of the country.
This obviously makes Jim mad. Jim doesn’t really like teh gays, and in this video of him on Sunrise he not-so-subtly implies that allowing gay couples to adopt amounts to child abuse. Implying that gay parents would cause trauma for the child on account of not having both a mother and a father. Trauma.
“These children have already been traumatised and are wards of the state,” he laments, neglecting the fact that they are usually traumatised and wards of the state because of a heterosexual couple who weren’t very good parents. Or a heterosexual couple that didn’t want the child. So the logic that a heterosexual couple will always provide a better home for children than a gay couple is flawed to begin with.
I’m not going to dispute that it’s probably better for children to grow up in an environment with both their parents, that being, with a mother and a father. In an ideal world all children would grow up with the loving care of their mum and their dad who live together behind a white picket fence next to another loving couple and their 2 and a half children. All playing merrily together in the street. Just like the good old days that never ever existed, anywhere.
Jim Wallace uses an example of a woman whose partner had died and said she couldn’t provide the love of a father. He uses this as argument against gay adoption, but I think to follow Jim’s logic to its only logical conclusion, when a child’s mother or father dies, that child should be removed from their remaining parent and placed in the care of a loving “mother and father” because that child needs the care that only a “mother and father” can provide. Honestly, that is how ridiculous Jim Wallace’s logic seems to me.
Jim complains about “the aggressive and selfish demands of a gay rights lobby”, but Jim, these are people who want to parent. They want to provide care, love and support to a child who needs care, love and support. I suspect there is no shortage of children out there who are in need of this kind of support, so why would you deny child the right to parents just because you don’t like the way they have sex? They undergo the same parenting and relationship tests that heterosexual couples undergo before being allowed to adopt, I don’t see a problem. Not when children are being provided a loving home they might otherwise have been without.