This time against p.c. defenses of Palestinian terrorists.
GAY PARENTING AND BEING SAVAGED BY ANIMALS: Taking a breather from his Scarlet Letter campaign against Gary Condit, James Taranto of OpinionJournal.com equates having gay parents with being savaged by a rottweiler. He recounts the tale of children who were removed from their p[arents’] custody after one of them had been found “wandering outside his home in a diaper after being locked out of the house and sleeping in the car.” Taranto’s complaint is that the children were subsequently given to gay parents. “Ross may have been an unfit mother,” Taranto opines. “But the homes into which the DSS placed her children were scarcely better. The Massachusetts News reports: ‘DSS placed Damien with a gay couple and Kyle was placed with Linda McNeil and her boyfriend, Eddie Finklea Jr., who kept a Rottweiler in the backyard. . . . In a shocking story that made headlines, Kyle was attacked and killed by the Rottweiler in June of this year after he wandered into the dog’s unlocked pen.” So let’s get this straight. Is it Taranto’s view that having gay parents is “scarcely better” than having a child locked out of the house and wandering the streets? Or than being savaged by a Rottweiler? Just asking …
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