Should lesbians and gays have children?

Question

What are your feelings on lesbians and gays trying to conceive?

Answer 1

Gays and lesbians should absolutely be able to have children, be it either by conceiving via donors or adoption. It is not anyone's right to judge how apt a parent would be based soley on sexual orientation.

Answer 2

It depends what you mean by trying to conceive, which could be difficult for 2 gay men, I'm thinking about adoption, why should 2 loving parents who can emotionally and financially afford and are able to bring up a child not be allowed to do so.
You can't say it has to be a man and a woman because men do it on their own woman do it on their own so why not 2 men or 2 women. Society is changing and it's more acceptable nowadays, I don't beleive there would be a massive problem for bullying or anything.

Answer 3

Absolutely not. I've had so many people say, "well as long as they love the child" and "there are so many straight people who aren't good parent" and that may be true. But what is the biggest truth is that if God wanted gays to have children, they would be able to conceive with each other, not go to the opposite sex to conceive. Hmmmm, does that actually make since to go to the opposite sex than what you are attracted to?!?

Answer 4

It is amazing some of the ignorance that still occurs nowadays. As long as they can give love and provide a stable loving home it should not matter. I know plenty of kids that have come from a typical heterosexual homes that turn out completely on the wrong path and I know kids that I have come from lesbian households they are completely stable, well adjusted and educated adults with husbands and wives.

Answer 5

To the first person that said it takes a man and women to raise a child that is untrue... What it takes to raise a child really is love and money!! I mean to be honest with you gay parents are just as good as any other parents... So what if you had a man and women that was raising a baby and the father was beating the child and then two women that was rasing a child and they loved them didnt harm them or anything like that... would you still think that only a man and women should raise a child?? I think its about love..

Answer 6

I don't agree with a gay couple raising a child. I feel that God made a man and a women to have and that is they way suppose to be. If he wanted Gay people to have to have children then he would of made men be able to make men pregnant and women be able to make women pregnant. And I don't nothing against gay people at all....but I don't agree with them raising children cause I think it will just confuse the child to wonder why all his friends have moms and dads and he has two moms or dads.

Answer 7

i am a lesbian and i am 2 months pregnant with my 1st child. I am a normal person who loves children. I will be a great mother. I am no different then a straight couple. !!

Answer 8

Sexual orientation has nothing to do with ability to be a good parent. Personally, I think the people who say "It takes a man and a woman to make a child, and it takes a man and a woman to raise one" are the ones who shouldn't be parents.

Answer 9

If two people love a child, what's wrong with that? It doesn't take a man and woman to raise a child, I'm sure some single mothers could argue about that!

Answer 10

This is a tough one - I know many (is 3 considered many?) same sex couples with children... My feelings are divided on the issue. On one hand - there are so many children out there who do not have loving and supportive environments in which they can thrive. I think they might benefit from having 2 parents who are loving, and supportive no matter what their sexual orientation is.

On the other hand - it's just not natural.... and I'm really not comfortable with it ...

Maybe its hypocritical but I guess I think its ok for stable couples in committed relationships (same sex marriages are legal in Canada) to adopt a child in need.... seems like a wishy washy answer to me but I can't seem to justify it any other way...