Moore pushes government on same-sex adoption
The Gay and Lesbian Rights Lobby have urged NSW parliamentarians to support a private member’s bill allowing same-sex adoption, soon to be introduced by Sydney MP Clover Moore.
Moore has requested a Private Member’s Bill be drawn up to allow for same-sex adoption rights.
“[The NSW Labor Government] might have said same-sex adoption is off the table, as far as a Labor Government initiating the proposal, but a private member’s bill will give the whole Parliament an opportunity to consider the issue on its own merits,” Moore told Sydney Star Observer.
“I am hoping that once I put the bill before the house, and the context of why it should be approved is considered, that I will get a response from the majority.
“When I’ve had individual conversations with members, I have had a positive response. That doesn’t necessarily mean when they end up as a party in the chamber, that will be the outcome. But I have had success with this kind of bill in the past, and believe when it’s matter of equity and human rights, the majority will see it that way and act in a humane way.”
Gay and Lesbian Rights Lobby policy coordinator Senthorun Raj urged NSW parliamentarians to support such a bill.
“After the extensive inquiry that last year that called for an amendment, the Government should introduce a bill — this needs to be addressed immediately,” Raj said.
“If the Government is unwilling to act, then it is promising to see that this issue is being kept alive by other members in Parliament.
“We would encourage the Government to support this, after a decade of reform bodies suggesting the amendment should be made, this is the last piece of direct legislative discrimination that needs to be removed.”
I should have my own bill for the incompetent, unstable, broke and deeply unpopular New South Wales Government:
Adoption (Equality For Same-Sex Couples) Bill 2010
(i) This bill amends the current New South Wales Adoption Act No 75 in schedule 1.
(ii) This Act shall be called the Adoption (Equality For Same-Sex Couples) Bill 2010.
(iii) This Act commences on the day of Assent.
(iv) This Act is repealed once all sections and schedules have commenced.
Schedule 1:
Dictionary;
[1] Omit the definition of “couple”;
[2] Omit the definition of “de facto relationship”;
[3] Omit the definition of “married”;
[4] Omit the definition of “spouse”.
[5] In alphabetical order add to the dictionary –
“Relationship means any two (2) adult persons as spouses or de facto partners under section 21C of the Interpretation Act 1987 over the age of eighteen (18) who are legally eligible to adopt under this Act”.
The problem is both Labor and the coalition parties have been in bed and have been having sexual liasons as well as excepting gifts of the financial and other sort for far to long from the Christian lobby and the Catholic Church.
These practises must stop and investigated by ICAC.
Equal adoption is about finding the best parents for children, whether they are heterosexual or homosexual. Evidence shows that the children of gay couples benifit from the same quality parenting as children of heterosexual adoptive couples, and adopton criteria should focus instead upon how well children can be raised, and loved by the parents. The discriminatory and unfounded idea that a child receives any exclisive benifit due to the particular sex and relationship of the parents alone is out of tune with reality, and denys a child the best range of candidates.
I agree that this is important but why is she doing this now?
This is the most important piece of state reform needed.
It effects the well being of thousands of children with same-sex parents.
If both parties grant a conscience vote, the reform will be passed.
Same-sex adoption is also just about the last piece of state discrimination (and more achievable than amending the anti discrimination act)