While we rarely haven’t always agreed with Speaker Ferrandino’s policy positions, we agree that he’s got one cute kid. He and partner, Greg Wertsch, have formally adopted the little girl, Lila Augusta, the pair had been fostering since last year. Congratulations to the family!
"knowing better"?? well, if you mean knowing a better life than one that keeps her in foster care or group homes, then yes…I would image she would "know better" in that sense.
how many millions of kids have just one parent…….what about them….you sound like a mom and dad are the norm in this country…..check your facts buddy
she already does…she knows tolerance unfortunately you never will Mr Lechman
why are you such an idiot Chris. They look happy
not anywhere nearly as repulsive as you Alan.
I want you to move to Iran Mr Jones.
Mr Schultheis you are unAmerican
Super cute family, Congrats to them 🙂
Your comment is much more repulsive then any kiss between those 2.
I would place you in the category of "old, homophobic and lucky you got to reign in the cash before everyone realized how disgusting you really are". But heck, just my opinion.
I'm thinking it was the circumstances that had her in foster care and in need of adoption that deprived this little girl of a mom and dad, not the choice made by a loving couple to bring her into their home and raise her – thereby actually giving her a more stable, 2-parent family. and that country full of children of divorced parents actually do have a mom and a dad. I'm guessing the issues you are presuming are related to the break-up of that relationship, not the gender or orientation of those two parents they do have. perhaps PEAKPOLITICS is cheering it on because this DOES place this girl in a two-parent household rather than leave her dangling in the foster care system.
she obviously has a mother since, ya know, someone gave birth to her. of course since they've been foster parents to this child for a year, one would gather that the mother was not able to BE a mother to this poor little girl. that wasn't Ferrandino & Wertsch's doing, but what they DID do was step up and take on the responsibility of caring for this poor little girl, which IS in the best interest of the child. your concept of depriving this poor little girl of a loving home & family is neglectful and not in the best interest of the child…even moreso since it is based on your self-serving "desire" to deny her such a life in favor of upholding your ignorant view of society while denigrating the loving people who ARE trying to help & support her.
Mr. Schultheis: your blatant assumptions about their supposed "motivations" (self-gratification?) and/or the "abuse" involved are the true perversions in this comment.
Bob Marshall: how do you know that?
the person repulsed by the sight of affection between two people who love each other may be the more repulsive party in this scenario.
Oh yeah, my wife and I were totally thinking about our own desires when we decided to adopt my biological niece who was exposed to drugs in utero, whose biological parents were unable and/or unwilling to properly care for her, and who we have raised from a three day-old infant into a happy, healthy, smart, loving, and secure child. Why don't you come over for dinner sometime and we can have a REAL conversation about child neglect, what it actually looks like, and what happens to children when their need for a safe and loving home and family goes unmet. Based on your comment, it seems that you don't have any clue.
Guess you better man up and start adopting all the unwanted children then.
Mike Stone: Neither are you, Mikey, full frontal or profile.
Andrew Newman Amen.
What's ironic about your comment is that if that baby were not to have been
adopted by loving parents like Mark the child could have ended up in poverty and neglected. The only time your kind cares about a child is before its born or adopted by a gay couple. Your record doesn't indicate you care otherwIse.
As I often say, a heterosexual set of parents doesn't automatically create a healthy home environment, and a solid foundation for assisting that child to become a stable adult. Her parents have already established that they're willing to go above and beyond what it takes to become a family. I would imagine their dedication is beyond those of us who just weren't that great with birth control. Congratulations to this new family.
Idiot.
Um, she will. Tolerance IS "better."
Wow Dave, do you also hope she gets AIDS to punish the Speaker of the House? Oh wait, of course you do.
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2009/feb/25/words-and-controversy-senate-republicans/
Are you sure they didn't post anything when Frank McNulty had a baby earlier this year? Really really sure?
Yeah that's me defending you, Peak. As for the rest of this crap, you deal with it.
Dave Schultheis, you represent more or less everything about the Republican Party that repulses the next generation of voters. Thanks for weighing in!
Thanks, Peak Politics. It's too bad your readership is mostly a bunch of unvarnished haters.
Nice family! I hope she will be a happy little girl who is loved. Hopefully she won't be taught to hate like half of the people commenting on this post.
Well…..welcome to the wonderful world of parenting!
What is so odd about this is that Peak Politics does not congratulate heterosexual couples for births or adoptions–although, I confess, I do not know of any that have occurred in the last few years, which doesn't mean that none have happened, only that little ol' Chris Rawlings doesn't know about them. I wouldn't know about this one, either, were it not for this post.
Which begs the question, why would you specifically go out of your way to cheer on a gay adoption? Are you trying to brand a new, more "open" conservatism in Colorado? Frankly, it does appear that Peak Politics is more enthusiastic about Mark Ferrandino's daughter than important social conservative policy arguments about marriage, human life, and religious liberty. That is sad, if you ask me, and hardly representative of the full-breadth of conservatism in this state and in the Republican Party in Colorado.
Look, guys, I hope and pray for the best for this little girl. Nevertheless, I don’t really think that depriving a little girl of a mom and a dad really is something to celebrate. Ask a country full of children of divorced parents how that’s been going for them. Are you honestly going to pretend that the full spectrum of social problems in America is either unrelated to liberal social policy or, perhaps, the entire fault of Obamacare or gun control. You guys should know better than that. And, well, I suspect that you do, but it’s a lot easier being the easy-going, tolerant guy at the party than the guy who says tough things because they’re true.
What seems like an attempt to make conservativism totally non-judgmental and open-minded really just makes Peak Politics look a little pathetic. The truth is that social conservativism can absolutely be an electoral winner, but it has to be argued winsomely, compassionately, and thoughtfully. So few GOP candidates either can, or want to, do just that. And they either lose their races or just throw important social policy under the bus. In either case, we all lose.
Poor girl. She cannot possibly grow up with a healthy and proper perspective of relationships and sexuality. A tragedy.
To deprive this little girl of a loving mother for the sake of self-gratification r is perverted. I would place it in the category of deliberate child abuse.
If she wasn't BORN homosexual she won't BE homosexual. She may, however, have a more tolerant attitude.
Sad would be allowing the child to languish in an orphanage or in foster care, where the shelter, care and love or a family are never certain and likely unknown. For all your christian demagoguery, where are the "millions" of loving heterosexual couples wanting children while there are 400,000 unwanted babies and children in Americas orphanages? The wretchedness of your bigotry and hypocrisy is a social disease that will hopefully be eradicated with the death of you and your peers.
Isn't it sad that this poor little girl will never have a mother?
Children should have a mom and a dad. Same-sex adoptions are focused on the desires of same-sex couples more than the best needs of children.
If conservatism means celebrating politically correct child neglect, I don't think I want it to succeed.
poor girl hope she grows up knowing better.
Alan, don't be a bigot. It's not very becoming.
Just an American family. Wonderful.
Just as repulsive as their kiss on the front page of the Denver Post.