re: #240 ggt

Really, other than Michele Bachmann, which GOP candidate has truly put children first. She’s whacko, but I do have to give her credit for the foster work she and her husband did. She should have concentrated on Family Law, I think she could have done some good there.

I don’t see too many of those poor, minority, or disabled children being adopted. I do see little girls from China being adopted, but not American children so much.

I used to work at a largely LGBT synagogue. A lot of members were adopting little girls from China. One man held out and said that if he was opening his home to a child, he wanted to help an American kid who needed someone. It took ages—we’re talking about a financially stable, utterly saintly man who was willing to take any race and any disability he thought he could handle, but he was a single gay man, and the process takes forever anyway.

He finally got a baby, though, a beautiful little boy, and he was over the moon. I remember the day he showed up to tell the rabbi. I opened the door, and there was this guy wearing a baby in a chest sling, grinning ear to ear. He said, “Hi. I’m Mike, and this is MY BABY.”