Under the guise of asking for a “clarification” of rules, County Commissioner Bill James has begun a campaign to discredit and eventually ban gays and lesbians from adopting children in Mecklenburg County. Ever the spokesperson for a quasi-medieval view of life, James apparently couldn’t care less that study after study has shown that the children of gays and lesbians turn out to be as happy and well-adjusted as the kids of straight parents. In addition, considering that the need for adoptive parents is huge, James’ crusade isn’t just ideologically driven small-mindedness, it’s deliberately hurtful and a disgrace to the term “family values.”
This article appears in Aug 4-10, 2004.
