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9/14/11  4:54 pm
Commenter: Shannon Doyle

Support Non-discrimination in Adoption - To do otherwise punishes children
 
Many thousands are in want of common necessaries; hundreds of thousands are in want of common comforts, sir.’
‘Are there no prisons?’ .
‘Plenty of prisons,’ said the gentleman, laying down the pen again.
‘And the Union workhouses.’ Are they still in operation?’
‘They are. Still,’ returned the gentleman,’ I wish I could say they were not.’
‘The Treadmill and the Poor Law are in full vigour, then?’ 
‘Both very busy, sir.’
‘Oh. I was afraid, from what you said at first, that something had occurred to stop them in their useful course,’I’m very glad to hear it.’
 
Trite, but in truth, this is what an ideologue is willing to allow.  Good homes with very loving people denied to hundreds of children so they can persue their personal agenda.
 
 
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