[tertiary01]

I really feel it is more insidious than your explanation, as I feel that many gays are looking for an uncontaminated supply, so to speak. But it helps to explains why the Baby Boomer generation is so different from THEIR parents. The Beat generation is also their parents,the WWII generation, and they loved to dabble in socialism. I think the BBoomers took on the more extreme behaviors, as a way of rebelling. And that the current younger generation is taking on conservatism as a way of rebelling against the BBoomers.

[Devil_Anse]

Yes, and I think the examples you gave serve to remind us, also, that a person is more than just a product of his/her parents. I mean, there's no doubt that the family is important, but if there weren't other factors at work, none of us would care what the children are being taught at school, or by TV, for example.

They can adopt all these "unwanted" children, oh yeah. But I just think that the law of unintended consequences may make an appearance in all that! Same for their insistence on "getting married". I think they're just going out of their way to outrage the rest of us, but w/o thinking ahead to the long-term consequences--for them--of the changes they might wreak.

Furthermore, on the subject of their adopting, I wonder how people who can't even stay with the same sex partner for more than, say, a month, or perhaps a few years, expect to stick around long enough to raise a child for 18 years? I see more than the usual chance of abandonment in the future of those children who are adopted by fad-following homosexuals. And an abandoned child can grow up to be VERY resentful. I guess what I'm saying is, if someone adopts a child and then doesn't do a very good job of taking care of the child, that person will create his/her own punishment for his/her failure. (Of course, this also goes for one's biological children.)