I think gay couples should be able to adopt.

That being said, I can't help but feel sorry for the kids though. Children at school can be cruel. I ought to know, I have extremely poor eyesight. I wear contacts now, but wore very, very thick glasses in school. There were a few years where I was going through 3+ pairs of glasses a school year because other kids would play "keep-away" with them and break them. It took weeks to have them replaced and I was not able to read anything farther than 6 inches from my face during that time let alone see a car coming at me in the street.

So, I can't imagine how kids would react to a kid that had gay parents(or even being gay themselves for that matter). It's not their fault. I'm sure it depends on many things like the area you live in and so forth, but as bad as it may be, I still think gay parents should be able to adopt. Kids need parents, and while many may debate "the perfect family" scenario, two gay parents is 10x better than no parents at all.

With all due respect, it appears that most of you folks are more concerned with the right of gays to raise children than the right of children to be raised properly. I know that the use of the word "properly" is probably offensive to most, but the facts about this issue are quite clear. Both scientific inquiries and anybody's empirical knowledge clearly show that children need both a mother and father. Nature, or God, or whatever higher being or power you would like to ascribe, has clearly designed us this way. But moving away from the teleological point to the more practical, it is the way we are.

When speaking about adoption, we should be primarily concerned with the adoptee, not the adopter. After all, the adopter is an adult and can make his own decisions. The adoptee is purely innocent and completely vulnerable. So let's refocus the debate to what is best for the child.

As I said above, it is a fact of who we are as humans that we need to be raised by both a father and mother. A gay couple, no matter how well meaning, cannot, by definition, fulfill this requirement. Therefore, they should be restricted from adoption, since it is not the child's best interest.

Please do not respond to this posting with ad hominem attacks.

I agree with you in some ways AaB. However, what effects have there been on people adopted by gays, is there any proof that something horrible can/will happen to these children?

CP