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Deleting Online Predators Act - R.I.P.
elearning 2.0 writes "It looks like the Deleting Online Predators Act (DOPA) has died a slow death. DOPA was proposed during the height of last year's moral panic around the issue of child safety and sites like MySpace. The legislation would have banned the use of commercial social networking websites in US schools and libraries which receive federal IT funding — therefore undermining much of the pioneering work being done by educators in the e-learning 2.0 space."
An absolute, undisputable fact of strictly gay relationships is that
they cannot result in offspring. That means, if a gay couple wishes to
have a family they must adopt, or seek the services of a surrogate.
In the case of the former, the adopted child was most likely unwanted by
it's biological parents, and the state of being wanted is preferrable to
the state of being unwanted.
In the case of the latter, two men make a consious decision to have a
third party create a child for them, which they will adopt, and
presumably the surrogate will no longer be involved after the child is born.
Deliberately procuring a child, with the full intent of disconnecting it
from it's biological mother, is what really bothers me. As the saying
goes, there's no love like a mother's love, and the gay couple is
declaring to society that it has no moral qualms about deny a child that
love.
What happens when the children of gay parents start asking questions
like "who gave you the right to intentionally alienate me from my real
biological mother (or father)?"