Caption for second photo (christmas lights): Debbie Thompson (left) and her wife, Reanna Thompson, pose in front of the lights at Temple Square with their son, Liam. Debbie is unable to legally adopt Liam, who is Reanna's biological son, because Utah law does not recognize their Canada marriage and prevents unmarried couples from adopting. Photo courtesy of Debbie Thompson
Poor kids! Children should not be subjected to homosexual parents.
They say that homosexuality is about consenting adults in private.
When does the adopted child consent to be brought up in an alternative lifestyle household?
I agree, all homosexuals should be sterilised.
“who is Reanna’s biological son”
Where is daddy?
I think that any couple or single should be allowed to adopt.
Ideally, everyone would be raised by their loving, committed, and wealthy biological parents, but that is not always the case. I just met a sixty something widow that adopted a disabled and mentally challenged child with a whole array of medical problems. When I asked her why she would burden herself like that, she told me its the Christian thing to do.
I see no reason why children should be denied a loving home. I don’t care if its a pair of dykes, or two church going spinster sisters, if a person or two people are willing to raise an orphan, power to them. Anything is better than a tax payer funded government orphanage.
So two homosexual pedophiles can adopt small children so they don’t have to hunt them down on the streets where they can get caught.
Instead the government will give them a fresh supply of young’ens.
Children should not be subjected to homosexual parents PEDOPHILES.
Come on now Mormons’ We’re proud of you defending TRADITIONAL MARRIAGE in California, however you NEED to win this battle in your home state!
What can I do to help (I guess I can pray for your fight out there): Merry Christmas!
I want to be a dictator and prescribe what I am sure some would call a “reproductive dark age”.
I do not believe in any form of artificial insemination, or artificial reproduction with humans, for any reason whatsoever.
First: there is no shortage of children who need to be, and never get to be adopted; so those who cannot conceive are not forced to use artificial insemination, just to fulfill their personal desire to be parents; they simply chose it over adoption.
Second: usually when I am reading the first person accounts of (or listening to interviews with) parents who chose an artificial reproduction method, the entire project seems to be all about them - the parent; their need, their desire - not the children.
And, most of all, when it comes to same-sex couples who decide to “make a child” artificially (as opposed to children they may have had, naturally, in a previous marriage) there seems to be no regard to the conditions they are placing on the child, which they dismiss with their simple belief that they too can be “good parents”.
But, somehow, no matter how much of a set of “good parents” ANY adoptive parents are, a majority of adopted children eventually (by nature?, by natural instinct?) want to make contact with their natural parents (if they have learned they were adopted). I imagine the same must be true, in time, for “fatherless” persons who are told only that your father was “sperm donor number 62384”.
Given the truth of this, why can’t such narcicistic parents understand that their personal, selfish ambition to have a child, in spite of shunning the natural circumstances of having child, will, present a void that no amount of “good parenting” can fill completely. It is selfish of them to decide that they can roll the dice, with their child, on how much they can fill that void, simply because THEY want to fulfill their desire to “be a parent”. They want to “be a parent” but they don’t want to make the choices IT NATURALLY - the self-sacrifices it naturally - takes to do that.
One can only anticipate that the parenting result (mindset of the children raised by them) will increase the propensity in the population for “artificial insemination”, and increase the avoidance of the fundamental relationship-building that natural parenting requires.
Thus, if I could dictate it to be so, I would would decree that the use of artificial means to human reproduction is so ethically challenged, fundamentally, that it would not be allowed.
“Children should not be subjected to homosexual parents. “
They aren’t even parents. They are pretend parents.
This whole subject gives me the creeps!