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Thanks for the nice post. I have gay friends who adopted a third world orphan, and he is loved, and has a much better life than he would have. If there were extra married (M-F) couples who didn’t get to adopt, then I’d be against it.

But kids need all the love they can get, and there’s no more reason to believe that a gay father would sexually abuse his son than a straight father would sexually abuse his daughter.

"But kids need all the love they can get, and there’s no more reason to believe that a gay father would sexually abuse his son than a straight father would sexually abuse his daughter."

Insane statement.

Suggest you do a search for the Folsom Street Fair. You'll find pictures of queer men parading their adopted children around in leather bondage gear.

FS2001, I would never dispute that two men or two women could do a fine job at many parenting tasks--- in the sense of being able to feed, clothe, shelter and educate a child, be warm and responsive, shield him from danger, and foster his God-given gifts. These competencies may be found as abundantly in SS couples as in mom & dad couples. As well as in orphanages, group homes, mother-grandmother households, or any number of permutations and combinations of caregivers.

But the very fact that the child is set up for a planned adoption by two men or two women, means they -- or the agency that set it up --- think either that a child has no right to a father, or that a child has no right to a mother.

They're deficient in the very area where diversity and balance counts: diversity in relating to a father AND a mother, and balance in experiencing day by day the affective complementarity of marriage: of a man and a woman in a good marital relationship.

Walker Percy and his two younger brothers were raised well by their homosexual but singleton second cousin, William Alexander Percy. Clarence Thomas was raised by his grandfather, Myers Anderson. God bless those who are thrust by happenstance into a broken situation. Bless them as they do as well as they can. Sometimes --- often --- a child could get stuck in a an unbalanced situation by chance.

But it should not be imposed on any child by choice.

The children don’t need to receive “that” kind of love. Considering the fact that “gay fathers” have no problems seeing their natural children molested by friends and strangers, I doubt they would have a problem with adopted ones. In fact, some gays specifically adopt children to have a source of underage pass around sex partners. You probably didn’t hear about the Duke University employee who decided to adopt a black infant. (He said it was easier to get them and they are too young to tell anyone what’s happened to them.) He shopped that boy to friends, acquaintances, and strangers on line. No one, not his “partner,” the other gays on line who watched him do it, or the other people in his deviant gay enclave did a single thing to save that infant boy.

That is just the beginning with the problem of gay adoption. Families are necessary for society because they are the first unit of society any child is exposed to. If the child’s first and formative encounter is with deviance, there is little chance those children will grow to be normal. That anyone could possibly advocate children being placed in that situation shows how little concern people have for either children or society today.