The Florida ban on adoption by same-sex couples was declared unconstitutional! Finally, a victory for equal-rights activists!
It is terrible that bans like this exist in our country. With so many children waiting in orphanages and foster homes, being denied normal childhoods, I wonder how anyone could deny loving couples the opportunity to adopt. If people think that being raised by a same-sex couple is bad, how about a heterosexual abusive couple? Or being passed around from foster home to foster home, with no permanent family?
This is not an issue of who is right, who is wrong, and who’s going to Hell. It’s about love and belongingness. It’s about having someone there for you. So many lives are torn apart by these types of bans.
In Arkansas, for instance, they recently passed a ban—originally initiated to prevent same-sex couples from adopting—that outlaws adoption or foster care by any unmarried couple.
This is ridiculous. Loving parents are loving parents. Gay, straight, married, unmarried, old, young, whatever. The alternative is worse. I’m sure the “psychological damage” that supposedly results from being raised by a same-sex couple is nothing compared to the trauma of being bounced around by a broken adoption system.
What’s next? Is Arkansas going to pull children from their single parents? Are they going to prohibit divorce? Around the country, situations like Proposition 8 are taking rights away from homosexuals. It’s horrible.
And I know that not everyone supports equal rights, and to them I say this: how can you do that to the children? Stop thinking about the parents for one moment, and think about what this will do to children everywhere, who are without families? You may view homosexuality is a sin, but I view depriving these children of a loving home as an even greater crime.
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It's nice that it's been ruled unconstitutional, but I worry that people may try to pass a new, more extreme law, like they did in Arkansas. Florida, like most of the Deep South, isn't the first place to come to mind when you think "tolerance" (or some similar word). With any luck that will change now that the younger generation is starting to gain political power. Anyways, it was good to hear about the Florida thing. Not so good to hear about Arkansas...
I agree, two humans who love each other are capable of raising children, whether they are gay or straight. Plus I'm sure any child will be happy to have loving parents rather then being in an orphanage. Children are the most accepting people, and they don't care about your sexual orientation. Plus, by the time they get older there will be plenty of same sex marriage families that it won't even matter and that child won't feel singled out.
As long as a child has a loving parent, relative or sibling, the child should be fine. It does not matter who raises the child, whether it is heterosexual or a straight parent. The child's friends affect his upbringing and so do the parents. The child does not have to turn gay if he is brought up by heterosexual parents.
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