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Emerging Gay Adoption Fight Shares Battle Lines of Same-Sex Marriage Debate

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Ugh, I hate when people try and justify situations where discrimination is obvious by saying they would prefer to put children in "traditional" homes or that the home of a homosexual person is "unstable, emotional environment". It's like, what the heck kind of judgment is that? This man has been like a father to these kids, and yet he is restricted from being able to adopt them. Doesn't anyone understand that when you say no to letting a homosexual person adopt, you are giving benefits to heterosexuals that you are limiting and restricting to homosexuals, aka DISCRIMINATION. People should stop being so homophobic, because there is nothing wrong with the environment of a homosexual household.

Maya of GA 9:42AM April 30, 2012

I grew up since 3years old with two mothers... One that whipped my but if I was being a nice person, she was a police lady and taught me right from wrong, how to be a good independent woman, was more of a father then my father wished to be and never treated me like a bill or tax write off; and my mama who gave birth to me but at 3 she went with my mom... She always had a shoulder for me to cry on, taught me to be good to the one God put in your life, taught me to know Christ and his love for all his children, to learn to love the sinner not the sin... To be raised by th these two women taught me to open my eyes from hate and be a great wife a great lover, a great friend, and a great mother.... And led me to have two great children and adopt anther three after their parents through them away... Thank God for the love my mothers gave me.... Anyone to question this love of any parents cause of relgious reasons should remember who jesus sat at three table with, who he said can cast the first stone, how he so lived the sinner even when everyone who so loved our Lord and Savior was ready to crucify them.... You might as well put the first lash.... God so loved us all he have us his only son... So we can love as he loved....

Dee Ono of AZ 3:49PM March 03, 2012

"To purposely create a family that says that either a mom is unnecessary or that a dad is unnecessary goes against all common sense, it goes against all the research, and it goes against 5,000 years of human history."
Common sense is a dangerous thing to cite, as is "5,000 years of human history" considering all of mankind's existence has not been without homosexuality in families. As for "all the research"...do I really need to explain why this is wrong?

Kalyn of NE 11:07PM December 03, 2011

What I can't really seem to get is this need to always be morally right. No abortion, no gay adoption. What's the point? If people can give unwanted babies up for adoption so that those children can live their formative in foster homes, how is that morally right? If gays would be willing to offer those children a home isn't that the decent thing to do? Forget about the fact that raising a child is incredibly expensive and if someone other than the government is willing to take on those expenses, more power to them, but should people really have the right to decide whether or not someone gets a home? Definitely not.

Caitlin of TX 8:40PM July 22, 2011

America is suppose to be the land of the free but I find that we are not in many ways. For one we have to pay taxes for the houses that we own, the land we own, for our cars that we own, for the roads that belongs to no onw and now people are making it hard for gay people to adopt. People should learn to be accepted as they are because as far as I can see there is absolutely nothing wrong that the gay people are doing to our society. Celebrities may steal, do drugs, go to rehab, and do all these bad things but we still accept them. How can we not accept gay people then? It`s a hard to have a free land and we as individuals must live up to it or we`re not going to be free anywhere anytime soon.

YT of MO 6:01PM July 01, 2011

I think that gay's and lesbians should have the right to adopt children. I also think that the kids should pick the parents that they want to go with........................................................................ >:(......................................

angelica of CO 12:18PM March 23, 2011

See i feel so strongly about this situation. Im gay and i would love to adopt kids in the future i was also adopted. An even though it wasnt by a gay family i always hung out with this gay family when i was little. It didnt affect the way i wanted to grow up. I feel like if two women or two men can love a baby them let them love them,you dont talk about the people who are married as men and women who abuse there kids, you dont hear about gay parents abusing there kids so get out of here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! you peolpe disgust me!!!!!!

Kimberly Burroughs of DE 8:58AM March 11, 2011

Gay people should have equal rights mmkkay?

Amber of FL 10:01AM November 12, 2010

I believe that when it comes to the decision of where a child should be placed when looking for the right home the parents' sexuality has nothing to do with it. Gay or straight, the child should be placed in a loving home where he or she is supported and taken care of. If a child has the choice between a homosexual set of parents who can support and take care of him or her and a set of heterosexual parents who are unqualified parents, then the child in question should be placed with the homosexual couple. A comment that I read earlier stated that if a boy grows up with two moms he won't learn how to be a real man. I have to disagree with this statement. The two women won't be the only people in the child's life. Their will be grandparents, cousins, uncles, ect. who will all have an impact on the child's life and his future decisions.

cass of CA 1:36AM September 07, 2010

I cannot support gay adoption. Homosexuality is an abomonation to the world. If a child is going to be adopted by someone who is gay, then they are going to grow up to be gay or grow up without knowing how to truly function in the real world. A boy who grows up in a home with two women is not going to learn how to truly be a man. The boy will not learn how to do the things that a man needs to do in the world and that is not right. People are going to purposely let that child get picked on because of the way he's going to grow up and it is not fair to the child to have to deal with that. It does not matter whatever way a person looks at it, homosexuality causes more problems whenever more and more people begin to support it. We need to stop it now while we still can.

Click here of TN 7:50AM September 02, 2010