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jpak

(41,758 posts)
Sat Apr 16, 2016, 09:13 AM Apr 2016

Florida takes gay fight to foster youth

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/opinion/os-florida-foster-gay-discrimination-scott-maxwell-20160414-column.html

You'd be hard-pressed to find a state more obsessed with battling gay folks than Florida.

OK, maybe North Carolina. But Florida is right up there.

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Now, Florida has taken its obsession with fighting all things gay to some of our most vulnerable citizens … foster youth.

Specifically, the state wants to change the proposed guidelines for group homes to allow bullying and discrimination against gay and transgender youth.

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Florida takes gay fight to foster youth (Original Post) jpak Apr 2016 OP
Sounds like Florida has a lot of really perverted people in the legislature that get off by bullying RKP5637 Apr 2016 #1
Is that to protect "religious freedom"? world wide wally Apr 2016 #2

RKP5637

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1. Sounds like Florida has a lot of really perverted people in the legislature that get off by bullying
Sat Apr 16, 2016, 09:19 AM
Apr 2016

youths.

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