We’re always surprised at the new levels of hypocrisy some people reach, and the recently proposed Florida House of Representatives Bill 315 is no exception.
Adoption agencies in the past have been able to ask potential parents if they have a firearm in their houses. Bill 315, sponsored by Osceola Republican Rep. Mike Horner, would keep these agencies from asking this question.
We can’t see how this is in any way infringing on someone’s rights. Answering “yes” to the question would not cause the adoption agencies to deny a child to potential parents; state officials say there’s no record of someone being denied adoption because of owning a gun. The question is asked because the agencies want to give safety tips to parents, especially first-timers, so that they may raise their children without any danger. The agencies aren’t asking people to get rid of their guns before they adopt or refusing them anything that families without guns would be getting. It’s just another question about the safety of a potential new home.
But this one just might infringe on the rights of barren National Rifle Association members, so it has to go.
There haven’t been many challenges to this new bill; everyone seems perfectly happy with it. And, yet, this sudden outrage at lives being pried into does not extend to the question that continues to remain on these adoption forms: whether a potential adopter is religious. Apparently, people shouldn’t have to say whether they own guns, but worshipping something is important.
And we won’t even get started on gay adoption.
