[Antoninus]

What is really creepy is kids aged 5 through 17, who have spent their entire lives in foster care, orphanages, and childrens' homes, and have little if any chance of adoption by heterosexual couples. Under these circumstances, I really don't see a problem with gay couples adopting children.

To be quite honest, I think that such children have a better chance at leading a normal life in state care rather than as props for homosexual liaisons. The state should certainly not be in the business of helping homosexuals purchase children.

[Labyrinthos]

Having spent most of my younger years bouncing from foster home to foster home, many of which were headed by extremly dysfunctional heterosexuals, I would have preferred to have been adopted by a loving family of any kind.

[longtermmemmory]

It points out the real issue. Do people whose entire lifestyle is centered around a sexual fetish have any place raising children? The answer is no absolutly not. Anecdotes do not make sound societal policy.

Society has an overwhelmin interest to raise normal healthy children into normal hetersexual adults. Society has zero benefit and future with abnormal homosexual adults.

As a rule, society is at greater risk placing children with homosexuals than leaving them in state care.