First "Legitimate" Gay Fostering occurs in Ireland

[Coggeh]

It about bloody time.

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/features/2011/0330/1224293350640.html

The law is that a single homosexual may adopt/foster but the partner would receive no rights either way, this is the first time a gay couple were collectively able to foster. hopefully this will speed up calls for full rights to adoption for all LGBT couples.

[Barry]

bout god damn time, the ultra-conservative appraoch of giving the minmum rights to the gay community was annoying

[Game Girl]

This is great news! It's about time common sense kicked in!

[Queercommie Girl]

Good news. Remember the prehistoric Celtic peoples of the British Isles used to have some of the most pro-queer cultural attitudes in the world.

[Simba420]

go queeeers :lol::D:)

[a rebel]

good for them, I don't know why people have to be such homophobes. All right wing assholes who are too scared, or ignorant to accept anything different. Damn shame this didn't happen sooner

[Tim Finnegan]

Great news! I can't help but confess to a certain inherited Hibernophilia, so it's always nice to see the more unpleasant baggage of that background being eroded.


Good news. Remember the prehistoric Celtic peoples of the British Isles used to have some of the most pro-queer cultural attitudes in the world.
Hell, one of Ireland's greatest heroes of legend, Fionn mac Cumhaill, was raised by two women who are generally thought to have been lesbians in the original, pre-Christian versions. (Bodhmall, a druidess who was his biological aunt, and her "companion", the warrior-woman Liath Luachra.) They seem to forget that when they're going around naming revolutionary organisations after him.