Proposed adoption bill is anti-gay and anti-child

Proposed adoption bill is anti-gay and anti-child
EDITOR:
I am writing in regard to the article published Monday Feb. 20, about House Bill 515, which would prohibit gay, bisexual and transgender people from being able to adopt children.
It's hard for me to understand the reasoning behind this bill. Actually, it's hard for me to understand why a bill like this was even created. With thousands of children in America waiting to be adopted, how could this bill ever be justified?
Sexual orientation has nothing to do with whether or not someone is a good parent. If there is someone who wants to give a child a happy, loving home, and if there are children in need of happy, loving homes, then it should make no difference if that home has two mommies or two daddies.
I just can't believe that some people are more concerned with discriminating against gays and lesbians than they are with helping children find homes. A parent's love will make all the difference to an adopted child, regardless of who else that parent loves.
MEGAN ANDERSON
Austintown
The blame for misbehavior falls to parents, not schools
EDITOR:
Parents are asking the schools for help in combating the increase in bullying and violence in the schools and on school buses. Excuse me if I put the blame where it really belongs. Parents only need to look in the mirror and see who is really to blame.
Nowhere in the world can a person apply for a job without some training or schooling for the position for which they are applying. Yet, parents have children and expect their children to be good people without laying a good foundation.
Parents need to teach respect. Respect for them for starters. The verbal abuse I hear on a daily basis from children to their parents is shocking. Rude behavior of children that is tolerated by their parents is not cute as the parents who put up with such behavior think. Parents need to ask themselves when was the last time you actually talked to your children's teachers and sided with the teachers who have to put up with a lot of "bunk."
Parents are leaving the rearing of their children to baby-sitters, and day care just to work outside the home. You need to get your priorities in order and think about the influences that others have on your children. I know there is violence on TV and music; however, you need to teach your children what is tolerated and what isn't at an early age. When you do this, your child will have the tools to know what is right and wrong.
Our society likes to blame others for everything that is wrong with our actions. We need to step up to the plate and be accountable for our own actions.
I am asking a lot, I know, since our own government and president haven't taken responsibility for that grievous error in judgment in Iraq.
PAT ZOCCALI
Warren
Stand up for balance
EDITOR:
It's time Americans stand up to President Bush and hold him accountable. What the administration has done is ethically wrong and illegal in regards to the wiretap scandal. Why go behind the courts and do as he pleases when he already has the power to immediately wiretap suspected terrorists?
Considering that for once in five years we have bipartisan support for an investigation should tell Americans that something is seriously wrong. Our forefathers had the insight to design the federal government with checks and balances. Bush has erased those checks and changed the balance of power.
BRIAN AXIOTIS
Newton Falls