I do not support gay marriage, but I support gay civil unions and gay couples right to adopt children. If there is a shortage of good parents, then should it matter if a couple is Gay?
I am against abortion on demand but I have to ask this in protest of much answer I read from other pro-lifers in a recent abortion question. This is why I am a pariah to both sides.
2007-03-20 07:59:19 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Edit: I did not see this question asked in this forum. I must not have looked hard enough.
My point is, wouldn't it be better for a child to go to a gay couple than be aborted?
2007-03-20 08:19:47 · update #1
Yes. I am pro-life and I support gay couples adopting children for the same reason that you described. Gay people aren't the ones out there having kids, leaving their partners, then having more kids with a new partner and breaking up families. I look at this from the side of the children, who are innocent in all of this.
2007-03-20 08:30:56 · answer #1 · answered by Truth B. Told ITS THE ECONOMY STUPID 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I'm Pro-choice but I know that there are a lot of children on waiting lists in foster services or orphanages. Many of them will never be adopted and it breaks my heart. I absolutely support gay couples adopting these children rather than those children not ever knowing what is to have the love of a parent. I think pro-lifers might differ on these issues as not all pro-lifers are anti-gay or homophobic. I think there are many pro-lifers that would rather have a gay couple than see a woman having an abortion.
2007-03-20 08:49:00 · answer #2 · answered by cynical 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Guess I'm a little more convinced that the "gay lifestyle" is a completely negative environment to raise a child in. There are plenty of straight couples waiting for years to adopt, and many of them only adopt one due to the difficulties with their last experience. If we were able to do away with abortion on demand, and at the same time, made it easier for these couples to adopt the resulting adoptable babies, more of them would have multiple child families, and would give the adopted children the advantages of siblings.
No one will ever convince me that gay tendencies and pedophilia are not related. I know all you advocates out there are screaming at me, but I am simply using common sense. Many young people have talked themselves about the homosexual "grooming" process they went through as minors. Most that I've heard said it began when they were teens or adolescents. Call it what you want, its pedophilia to me.
And don't anyone out there go calling me a "homophobe". A phobia is an irrational fear of something. I'm not "afraid" of homosexuality, I'm just disgusted by it and believe it to be an immoral act. I put it in the same list as bestiality, pedophelia, and polygamy. I'm not afraid of pedophiles, but just wait, one of these days the libs are gonna start calling me a pedophobe and the ACLU will sue me for hate speech against child molesters.
2007-03-20 09:07:44 · answer #3 · answered by boonietech 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I believe that if a gay couple wants to adopt a child they should not be denied that right. It should not be whether or not the adopting parent or parents are gay. For example, are the adopting parents going to provide for the child? Are they going to give the child the love and attention that it needs and deserves? Are the adopting parents going to provide a good home for the child? These should be some of the questions that should be asked, and not whether they are gay. In some instances heterosexual couples cannot even provide these things. Yet, why should someone who can be denied a right to adopt that child just because they are gay? Should the child be cheated out of a good home just because of someone's beliefs? No they shouldn't.
2007-03-20 08:11:04 · answer #4 · answered by j 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Gay couples should be allowed to adopt children. I look at it this way:
Gay couples are capable of living in monogamous healthy relationships. Straight people are capable of having really screwed up dysfunctional marriages.
Gay people can give birth to straight people, and straight people can give birth to gay people - which means that you can't "turn" a kid gay or straight.
Child molesters and rapists can be either straight or gay - but the majority are "straight" (I don't have a source to back this, I'm just pretty sure it's true).
So...what's the big difference? But I think gay people should be able to get married too.
2007-03-20 08:52:59 · answer #5 · answered by smellyfoot ™ 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I don't think it would be wrong for a gay couple to adopt a child, it's a WHOLE lot better than killing it. I think a gay couple has the potential to be great parents just like they have the potential to be awful parents just like a straight couple or a single parent there are good ones and bad ones anybody raising the child is 100% better than killing it for a person's convience or because it is exactly what they wanted when the wanted it under the circumstances they wanted.
2007-03-20 08:21:09 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
I am against Gay adoptions but if the law allows it then I will not fight too hard to change it. IMO being gay is not moral but I also don't think it is such a serious matter that we should stop the world over it. I have gay friends and even though I don't think that part of their life is moral I think that all in all they are good people. I disapprove of the act not the person.
2007-03-20 08:05:28 · answer #7 · answered by joevette 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Well, you can look through my answers and you will find I disagree with homosexuality and abortion all together. However, I don't get what homosexual couples adopting has to do with abortion. They aren't the same thing. Not all people who are pro-life are against homosexuals adopting. That's the best I can answer, but I don't see your point.
2007-03-20 08:05:13 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
I am pro life. And would MUCH rather see a child raised by a commited gay or lesbian couple than murdered by the mother who doesn't want it. That's an absolute no brainer!
FACT CHECK: 1% of all abortions occur because of rape or incest; 6% of abortions occur because of potential health problems regarding either the mother or child, and 93% of all abortions occur for social reasons (i.e. the child is unwanted or inconvenient). http://www.abortionno.org/Resources/fastfacts.html
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2007-03-20 08:04:31 · answer #9 · answered by ? 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Good question part of me says this would be a good thing but nothing can replace a Mommy and a Daddy since each brings something completely different to raising a child that the child needs for his/her development.
2007-03-20 08:04:33 · answer #10 · answered by mr_methane_gasman 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋