Every asshole who believes that gays shouldn't be allowed to adopt should be required to explain to this kid why it is his best interest to keep him in foster care than let some filthy homos adopt him.

Last week Medicare slashed the amount for physical therapy to 18 hours a year. Then yesterday Bush cut 15% out of the Medicare budget. And McCain has put forth a budget that slashes Medicare and Medicaid by 85%.

I have been working for the past 25 years and only in the last two have I ever requires government assistance. The hoops I have had to jump through have been humiliating.

I have a lot of sympathy for this boy but he may be better off dead than to go what I have gone through since last August.

The irony is that if he tried to kill himself, or wound up in prison, the government will do anything they have to to keep him alive.

Don't you realize that, by denying a kidney to this filthy little urchin - who would most likely only squander this gift by growing up to be a crack-addled repeat-offender like his skanky welfare-scamming mom - it means a good, God-fearing child of decent upbringing will be the rightful recipient of that kidney instead?

Next, you bleeding hearts will be demanding that these snot-nosed guttersnipes be treated exactly the same as decently brought-up children, by allowing them to sit in the same classrooms, or drink from the same water fountains, or ride in the front of the school bus, or God only knows what else!

But you're right about not volunteering gays to take all ultra-special needs kids. These children should be adopted by those who can take the challenge. And those who don't want women to have the right to choose. If you are going to oppose abortion you should be required to be trained to take on at least 3 of them. After all, if you want to imposew your beliefs on others you'd better be prepared to deal with the consequences.

We can't know if this child would have been adopted by a same-sex couple, if Florida allowed it. But we can't know that he wouldn't have been, if Florida allowed it. All we know for sure is that this kid is being sentenced to death because he's in foster care and, again, Florida would rather keep kids in foster care than allow same-sex couples to adopt. Who cares if kids are damaged or die as a result?

The risk factors increase substantially for a foster kid who hasn't been placed.

Amusing aside: one of the undead players on WoW is named "terryschiavo" ... he's in the Squirrelly Wrath guild.

@14 i wouldn't say global warming has much of a silver lining here, when florida floods over all those floridans will be refugees heading north, no doubt bringing their bullshit with them.

I believe the children are our future... soldiers.