Sweet Homo Alabama

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Republican Alabama lawmaker Gerald Allen says homosexuality is an unacceptable lifestyle. As CBS News Correspondent Mark Strassmann reports, under his bill, public school libraries could no longer buy new copies of plays or books by gay authors, or about gay characters.

"I don't look at it as censorship," says State Representative Gerald Allen. "I look at it as protecting the hearts and souls and minds of our children."

I guess what I'd like to know if Mister Allen is so damn concerned about protecting children why doesn't he do something about the fact that:

Children in Alabama are not protected from habitual child abuse, even from their hetero parents.

Children in Alabama are not protected from habitual child molesters who keep getting light sentences.

Children in Alabama are entering foster care at an increasingly alarming rate because of crystal meth -- their strung out parents won't put down the pipe.

Children in Alabama can't read the damn books anyway, because the Alabama legislature, filled to the brim with all sorts of traditional-lifestyle-espousing assholes cannot agree on a budget for the school system.

The full story is here and I cannot claim Missouri is any damn better.

Gay couples here are being denied the opportunity to be foster parents. And these gals are educational consultants who train people how to be a foster parent and a chaplain at a treatment center for young people with emotional and behavioral disorders. Sounds like whacky foster parents to me.

Sometimes....one wonders who's really looking out for the kids.