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- From: Leah.Wesolowski@p0.f2.n373.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Leah Wesolowski)
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- Newsgroups: hsv.general
- Subject: Homosexual Adoption
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- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 12:55:07 CST
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- TO: margaret@infonode.ingr.com (Margaret Wiginton)
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- MW> "To what extent does the state have to _recognize that marraige_
- ? Does the federal government have to recognize it too? How about
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- employers? The IRS? The bank? The church? The real estate agent?
- The adoption agency?"
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- Leah> Oh I don't know, I've never been gay and I've never been involved
- in a homosexual marriage, however I certainly hope that I never see
- the day when homosexual couples are allowed to adopt. As an adoptee
- I can tell you that it is hard enough to go through your life wondering
- all kinds of things; it takes years to overcome what adoption experts
- call the "Primal Wound". I would not want to complicate that healing
- process with the placement of children in the homes of homosexual
- men or women.
- As far as the rest of it, if you are legally married then I see
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- no reason why the IRS wouldn't recognize a joint tax return, or a
- joint checking account (esp. since you can have a joint account with
- anyone even if you are not married). as for Real Estate have you ever
- heard of two people buying a home together who were not married? I
- have. It happens all the time.
-
- Going back to the adoption issue again. I am also a birth mother.
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- I have a son who lives in New York with his adoptive parents. I chose
- them. I would NEVER allow the state to decide who got my child. I
- have the added pleasure of having an "Open Adoption" relationship
- with my son's parents. We write regularly and the adoptive mother
- and I have become very good friends over the years. If I had even
- the slightest inkling that my son would end up in the home of a
- homosexual couple I would have never even considered the adoption
- option {even though I know that my child needed special care I was
- unable to provide for him}. I would rather die than see my child in
- that environment.
-
-
- And about HIV. You need to check up on that. I no longer refer
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- to HIV as being the cause of AIDS because there have been many cases
- of people who died of AIDS who did not have the HIV virus. (See a
- last summer issue (can't remember the exact month) of Spin Magazine.)
- The truth is they don't really know what causes AIDS and they are
- not telling us everything that they do know. They = C.D.C. & W.H.O.
- Leah
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- BTW Margaret are you a lesbian?
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