European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 14, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 18 the stars and stripes june columns today crossword the Issue is its not Gays by Ellen Goodman Boston Donald babes and David Jean Lead the kind of life style that would be considered super straight if they were not works for the Boston fair housing is a nutritionist and business manager of a Home for unwed Babets is a sunday school and Jean a music director for his together these men share a mortgage and a vegetable a relationship of nine years and one new they have been very ruled unfit to take care of More than a year these two men applied to become Foster they answered the state questionnaires and the personal questions of social they went through Home visits and through a six week training and then they with the permission of the they were Given care of two Young and battered one of them aged the other 32 months but two weeks in the Glare of those boys were two weeks after on May a new state policy emerged that virtually ensures no More children will be placed with Gay people in Massa the policy May become a Model for other states that Are now reviewing their own it to put it not the finest hour for the Massachusetts department of social it placed the children after a lengthy investigation and took them away after a single newspaper nor was it the finest hour for the Gay which expressed More concern for their own Best interests than those of the the rest of this wildly emotional controversy Over two would be Foster parents was charged with attitudes to Ward homosexuality that ranged from discomfort to but this tale int about Gay its about Chil Drens in the Best of All possible each child would have its own caring Mother and in the Best of All possible no child would have to adjust to a Parent who was this but in the Best of All possible no child would be abused or neglected or Ever in need of Foster in the state of Massachusetts there Are Foster they As Secretary of human services Philip Johnston our most damaged and troubled to care for these a Foster Parent is paid Between and a Day for a maximum of 18 it is no wonder that the state has a Foster Home shortage of about 25 in the Public the state can choose Between Babets and or Ozzie and but in real the choices Are often meager and not every Foster Parent has altruistic How Many of the critics of these two Gay men have volunteered to be Foster parents themselves this was an Issue that deserved a Good Leav ing until this there was no set policy for or against Gay parents in any homosexuality was an not the Gay men and women were also judged on caring and these two men passed the there Are some who regard homosexuality As a sin that absolutely disqualifies people from child but what i see Are two abused children who found two Loving the children lost those caretakers because their names were Don and Washington Post writers group president damns his government by Art Buchwald a Bunch of us Washington sophisticates were lurking around a bar the other Day when president who was barnstorming the country Selling his tax came on the said theres the Peoples the president had the crowd in his hands when he attacked the special bureaucrats and so called experts who had forgotten about the America that exists beyond the Reagan got everyone riled up because he told them Washington didst care about his message was that it was just the voters and him against the Capehart he sure looks Beaver he int Hes putting on an theres Noth ing that goes Over better in Peoria than a president who hates Capehart but he is a those buildings out there Are filled with Reagan his people have been Here for five Why does he make it sound As if he Doest know who is running the country Beaver because he just struck a political Gold everyone is against special bureaucrats and the so called what better Way to sell a tax Reform program than to set up All the Straw men in Washington who Are against it Dumbarton i Haven met anyone who is against tax Ive met people who Are against parts of but most of them Are reagans Best the housing the Oil lobby and the fat cats have been his biggest i dont think the president has Ever addressed a lunch or dinner for ass than a if special interests didst buy those tables ill eat All the food left on their i knowing the president As Well As i do in sure he is just resorting to Pat Buchanan when Reagan attacks Washington he really Means the democrats in Washington who Are interfering with his and when Reagan says he wants the government to get off the Peoples he really Means he wants tip Oneill to get off his the presidents strategy is to turn the american people against their elected being the Guy on the White horse is the role he plays the Well Beaver told we must always keep in mind that those special interests Hes flailing Are the ones he and Nancy keep inviting Over to the White House for and those tax Reform Stone wallers that he holds up to ridicule Are the very corporation types that keep meeting in the presidents the biggest mistake we could make is to take seriously any thing Ronald Reagan says on the Dumbarton it makes Ronnie Happy to pretend he has nothing to do with what goes on and in one of those who believes that anything that makes Ronald Reagan Happy is Good for Capehart was still the i have an by demagogue no against this town he takes no responsibility for the fact his administration is the Washington he is there his so called experts that Are running the i could see Capehart didst get the big so i tried to explain it to the president has discovered you get no ovations from the american people when you defend their gov but he knows he can set them on fire by making them think everyone in Washington is a when Reagan raves and rants about the special inter ests Hes just invoking his make my Day Capehart want theres something wrong with All Why Doest he level with americans and Tell them How much it really costs 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