Right-wing social engineering hits Kentucky

Gee, ya think?

Kentuckians are facing a lot of important issues: stagflation, a crumbling health care system, unemployment, broken schools.

But what issue is at the top of the agenda of State Sen. Gary Tapp (R-Shelbyville)?

Tapp doesn't give a shit about any of those things. His priority is his new bill to ban anyone "cohabitating with a sexual partner outside of marriage" from being an adoptive or foster parent.

it seems to be borrowed from a new Arkansas law - but very few other states seem to have such a law. (The Arkansas version is already facing court challenges because it's unconstitutional.)

Kentucky already has a shortage of potential foster and adoptive parents, so this certainly isn't the time for such a law. No time is a good time for such a law.

Tapp's bill isn't gay-specific, but there's general agreement that the bill was motivated by the fact that Tapp hates gays. Even so, it applies against unmarried people in general - gay or not.

What gnawing need is there for this bill? None.

This isn't exactly the type of bill that should win a "write-your-own-law" contest. If I had to write a bill to submit to the Kentucky legislature, I'd write one to increase the minimum wage or opt Kentucky out of Real ID. Social engineering serves nobody except those who think everyone else's private lives is their business.

I think maybe the legend for this blog needs to add another icon, this one for crackpot social engineering.

(Source: http://nky.cincinnati.com/article/AB/20090217/NEWS0103/302170043)