Religious right selfishly turns boy into pawn in gay-adoption battle
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That judge's ruling — which focused solely on the child's well-being — enraged some on the religious right.
Why? Because the little boy's adoptive parents are gay.
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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.
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click on the link to see the image the FFRC used to convey who these parents fighting for the son are versus the actual image of the parents--Alenier and Leon.