Scaring People About Gay Adoption Is Easier When You Substitute Less Attractive People
Orlando’s Florida Family Policy Council, headed by John Stemberger, was very upset when a judge gave custody of a 1-year-old boy to her foster parents, because her foster parents are lesbian couple Vanessa Alenier and Melanie Leon. In notifying its mailing list about the “arrogant judicial activism,” the FFPC included a photo of the pair (at left) to show supporters just how repulsed they should be by the adoption case. Except that’s not the adoptive couple; that’s them, on the right. They’re a couple of good looking women who are the perfect, media-friendly faces for the same-sex adoption debate. It was a stupid ruse, and FFPC, an affiliate of Focus On The Family, has been fairly called out for their sensationalism. But this website is not above sensationalism. Which is why, in reporting on this story, we’re going to substitute the original photo of John Stemberger — who also served as chair of Florida’s Yes2Marriage.org — for a scarier version.
Original on left. Frightening, we know.
Its amazing that such a group of inbred lunatics could come up with such a brilliant idea…….those two fuglys on the left look like the hate children of James Dobson and Maggot Gallagher………
As for John Scumberger the only thing that would make his mug more attractive is a burlap sack…………….
Yes, but the point is even if you’re not beautiful, even if you are the couple on the left, that doesn’t mean you’ll be a bad parent. It’s not just the pretty people who need equal rights, it’s the rest of us, too.
Was it a one yr. old girl or boy?? Who proof reads these articles???
Also check out http://blogs.orlandosentinel.c.....stake.html … after being publicly humiliated, the homophobes are attributing it to an error made by “staff”, discovered within 24 hours. As it turns out, it seems to have taken a lot longer than 24 hours to correct this “mistake”.
As if that picture wouldn’t raise some red flags when viewed by anyone with half a brain. Those people are lucky they aren’t being sued for defamation.
THEY’RE MONSTERS!!! Get ‘em.
I must say… brilliant and devious and despicable. As another poster said, even if they were monsters, that doesn’t mean they won’t be good parents. But as studies have shown, looks mean a whole lot and can sway a lot of people. If you’re pretty, then you are brilliant, get a higher income, etc.
No. 5 · scott ny’er wrote, “As another poster said, even if they were monsters, that doesn’t mean they won’t be good parents.” … the question is whether they are actors/models being told to frown and dress weirdly for the picture!
So, maybe I missed something: was the original article with the nasty photos retracted, was an apology issued, and was guilt assigned?
Talk about tabloid journalism!
Desperate people do stupid things.
SHAMEFUL tactics.
This post gave me the giggles for a minute.
Don’t know why. Maybe the twisted deviousness of it all. And to claim it was an accident (wink, wink), by good Christians doing deceiving for the Lord — undoubtedly wearing one of those Tony Perkins (FRC) creepy smiles. It’s either all very funny, or I was just hysterical for a minute.
But I wanna know about this photo on the left. Who are those people? Is it a mock up? It looks like it could be from the 80′s. But if its current? What if they are real people who may be reading whole thread? Hmmmm….
I think I’ll shut up now.