Yohane Banda, the man who allowed Madonna to adopt his child and then used the situation repeatedly to bask in the media spotlight, is back at it after hearing news of the singer's divorce from Guy Ritchie.

Instead of offering up a respectable "no comment," the father had this to say:

I am still a poor farmer with nothing to offer, but maybe he'd be better off back with us. This woman, Madonna, told me herself that David was beautiful and made her happy and she promised to take care of him. Now I see him in a big bewildering crowd in the street with people pushing and shoving, and many cameras around, and without a mother and father to hold his hand. I'm feeling bad for him.

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Michelle Kulstad's fight continues.

The Montana-based lesbian celebrated yesterday after a judge granted her parental rights over ex-girlfriend Barbara Maniaci's two children, whom Maniaci adopted while the gals were together.

Unfortunately for Kulstad, Maniaci's lawyer, anti-gay Alliance Defense Fund's Austin R. Nimocks immediately filed an appeal. And, naturally, his argument rests on hyperbole:

Nimocks said Thursday the case has "absolutely nothing to do" with Kulstad's sexual orientation.

"If Miss Kulstad was a man, we would still be in the case and making the same arguments," he said. "Are we going to start granting ex-boyfriends and ex-girlfriends parental rights just because they lived under same roof? If so, how far do we go? Granting acquaintances and roommates parental rights over the objections of fit parents is a very dangerous precedent."

Gawd! Those right-wingers are such drama queens!

Right-wing activists love to rail against gay adoption, largely because they think the gays are incapable of providing a stable, traditional household.

A non-partisan study says otherwise and reached a "universal professional consensus" that same-sex couples should universally be included in the adoption pool.

And the decision is motivated as much by children's needs as by economic reasoning:

"The pool of potential adoptive parents must be expanded to keep pace with the growing number of kids in foster care who are legally free for adoption," stated the report by the Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute, which is based in New York.

Currently, about 129,000 U.S. children are in foster care, many of whom are older, have special needs and face grim prospects for finding a loving, permanent home.

Besides the emotional hardships, a national ban on gay adoptions could add $87 million to $130 million to foster care system expenditures each year, the report said, citing previous research. Not only would children who are removed from gay and lesbian homes be placed in group or institutional care, which is more costly, the state would incur the costs of recruiting and training new foster parents, researchers found.

And this nation cannot afford any extra costs.

The majority of Brazil's gay boys and girls won't be adopting any time soon:

Brazil's lower house of Congress has rejected part of a pending adoption law that would have allowed gay couples to adopt children.

A Wednesday statement from the Chamber of Deputies says a measure giving gay couples the right to adopt was withdrawn because federal law doesn't recognize same-sex civil unions.

A proposal granting same-sex couples the same rights as married heterosexuals has stalled in Brazil's Congress for more than 10 years, prompting some states to take their own actions.

Southern Rio Grande do Sul state has permitted same-sex civil unions since 2004, and a Sao Paulo state court allowed a gay couple to adopt a 5-year-old girl in late 2006.

Brazil's Senate will now attempt to hash out the matter.

Barack Obama's same-sex love fest continues!

The presidential hopeful not only expanded his gay efforts this week, but the Senator also clarified his position on gay adoption and other family matters.

The statement comes after pro-gay Family Equality Council - spurred by John McCain's prohibitive comments last month - pressed Obama and his Republican rival on their respective positions.

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