Florida Christian Group Purposely Uses Wrong Photo To Mock Adoptive Couple

[FreeState]

http://joemygod.blogspot.com/2010/02/florida-christian-group-purposely-uses.html

In a deliberate attempt to ridicule a lesbian couple involved in an adoption case, the Florida Family Policy Council used the above-left photo in press materials about the case. The actual couple is on the right. My source tips me that the left photo is the first result one gets when doing a Google search for "ugly lesbians." Via the Orlando Sentinel's excellent Scott Maxwell:

"Arrogant judicial activism" was how the finger-waggers at Orlando's Florida Family Policy Council described the ruling in an alert it sent out to its members last week. And to make their point about just how frightening this ruling was, the Policy Council included a photograph of the couple — a strange and androgynous-looking duo, one with bleached skin and both with mullet haircuts. The couple look so odd (you literally can't tell whether they are male or female) that one might wonder how any judge could place a young child with such a disturbing-looking duo. Except the judge didn't.

The abnormal-looking couple that the Policy Council chose to illustrate this story is not the same couple granted the right to adopt the child. No, the two-woman couple awarded custody of the 1-year-old — South Florida trade-show executive Vanessa Alenier and her partner, Melanie Leon — look more like J.Crew models: all-American with catalogue clothes and smiles. The picture that the Policy Council chose was a grotesque caricature. These are the dirty tactics of Christianity's far-right warriors. Not the majority of mainstream Christians, mind you. Not those who are focused on caring for their own families and practicing their own faith — but those who are obsessed with homosexuality. These extremists wage their campaigns of intolerance based on deception and misrepresentation. And they have the gall to do it in God's name.

[Canuckistanian]

1. It's like I've always said

Conservatives can't make ANY of their little talking points without cheating, lying or distorting the truth.

[fl_dem]

2. This is outrageous and unacceptable

I hope the "real" couple sue the hell (pun intended) out of this so called religous organization. I don't even know if they have grounds to, but I hope they do it for the sheer principle of it.

[joeybee12]

4. Well, the two women aren't public figures, not by a long shot...

...I bet they can sue.

[47of74]

13. Me too.

I hope they sue these bastards. I would love nothing more than to see this "family" group have to turn over all their property to these women like the Klan had to do to the mother of one of their victims a number of years ago.

[goclark]

3. That is pure evil !

:mad:

[farmout rightarm]

5. Surely it was just an innocent mistake...both couples look so much alike

...

[IggleDoer]

6. If the Florida Family Policy Council had to do this ...

... they must not be very confident of their political stand on gay adoption.

[RKP5637]

7. Republican, Conservative = Compulsive Liar. n/t

[TrogL]

8. Just get used to it - they follow different rules of "logic"

Primarily, "the end justifies the means", straight out of Maciavelli.

They have been taught not to think, that thinking is evil.

A few years ago I got hauled onto the carpet in the principal's office because one of the "Christian" parents complained about the core textbook we were using in Language Arts class, the great Christian apologist C. S. Lewis' The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. There was a little complaint form she had filled out. The final question is in big black letters at the bottom of the page. HAVE YOU READ THE BOOK? Of course, she ticked "no".

TrogL: How can you criticize a book you haven't read?
Parent: Why would I want to read evil?
TrogL: You are aware that the author is a well-known Christian writer.
Parent: He's Catholic, not Christian.
TrogL: The witch is the villian...
Parent: My child shouldn't be reading about witches.
TrogL: The Lion is a Christ allegory...
Parent: My child should be reading about angels. Why don't you have a book about angels?

A few weeks later, we were trying to talk about viewpoint. Her son (yes, he stayed in the class, she went to the school board and they laughed at her) simply wasn't getting it. I had him come to my office.

TrogL: There's a chair and a desk in my office. (closes the door) What's in my office?
Son: I don't know.
TrogL: (opens door) Now what's in my office.
Son: Table, chair, garbage can ... (lists everything in the office)
TrogL: (closes door) So name something that's in my office.
Son: I don't know.
TrogL: If, I were to go in my office and close the door, what would I see.
Son: You wouldn't be able to see.

His mother can see angels. The son can't visualize what's behind a closed door the second after it's closed. Something wrong there.

[hvn_nbr_2]

9. Is every group with the word "family" in their name a hate group?

Or does it just seem that way? How did "family" become a right wing codeword for "hate"?

[RKP5637]

17. Excellent Point! I've noticed the same. I think it has now become a codeword

sadly for "hate" as it's now framed by many RW.

[Initech]

20. You might be onto something.

Focus on the Family
Family Research Council
Family Policy Group
American Family Association

They all seem to have one thing in common... :popcorn:

[Warren DeMontague]

10. Because they know if they put up a picture of attractive lesbians on their website

a significant portion of their sexually repressed male readership is going to get majorly turned on.

[FSogol]

11. The couple on the right can adopt me anytime they want!

;-)

[Brickbat]

12. While the ruse is annoying, so is this:

The couple look so odd (you literally can't tell whether they are male or female) that one might wonder how any judge could place a young child with such a disturbing-looking duo.

It's the other side of the coin the writer seems to be decrying. Hot lezzies, OK! Weird-looking ones, not so much.

[Hello_Kitty]

15. You beat me to it. eom

[Hello_Kitty]

14. It's so nice to see that both sides of the political spectrum can come together on one thing.

And that's the universal "truth" that women's only value is in how they look.

Kumbaya.

:eyes:

[MineralMan]

16. Bearing false witness again, are they?

What Would Jebus Say?

[Gold Metal Flake]

18. Hail blob fish.

[MineralMan]

21. Hail you!

[Initech]

19. Remember - these asswipes use the "choose your own Bible".

They don't care about - or even really follow all 10 commandments. Hell the fundies probably don't even know what "bear false witness" means.

[MineralMan]

22. Yah, the Bible is a fungible document, it seems.

[RKP5637]

23. +1000, n/t