On April 20th, The HRC covered legislation dealing with the fact that Virginia's State Board of Social Services "let its children down." The children in question being homeless children looking for adoption. The decision being discussed is the decision that these children could no longer be adopted by LGBT individuals. Truly a devastating decision for the potential LGBT parents of Virginia and for the reported 1,300 children that will not be taken into these homes.
I am happy to see the HRC take offense to this type of misconduct within the state legislature, and happy that the group has promised to, "...take action to assure that no GLBT person or couple with a loving home to offer a child is denied the right to parent simply because of who they are." Missing from this statement, however, is something that I have come continuously to feel absent from the HRC mission: an explanation of how. Saying that steps will be taken is wonderful, and I am sure that the HRC intends to follow through. However, for the constituency of Virginia, and for supporters of LGBT rights across America these promises leave little more than hope. I, for one, am ready to respond to a rallying cry from the individuals that are showing their support at the Human Rights Campaign. My concern is that they have me (and many others) as an audience with supportive feelings, but little means to give legs to my feelings.
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