First, my partner and I adopted a baby and guess what? We did it because we are a loving couple of over 12 years who love children and wanted to grow our family; “gay rights” had nothing to do with it at all. Having a child is a life changing event; anyone who’d try to adopt a baby just to prove a point would not only never make it through the adoption process, but would turn and run when they found out what sacrifices every parent makes for their child.

Second, you may be adopted but you obviously know nothing about modern day adoption practices. Most people today are in open adoption. This means we were picked by the biological mother to parent this child before she was even born, and we did take her home from the hospital at three days old; we didn’t “have to wait 3+ years”. Of course her bio mom knew we were a gay couple.

Third, our agency, one of the largest in the country, counts roughly 25% of it’s waiting families as same sex couples. Unlike the “Christian” agencies you cite, they don’t use bigotry and intolerance of others as qualifier for adoption.

Our girl is loved by her fathers, grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins. She is happy, well adjusted, and welcomed in our family by all, and will know her story of how she came to be with us as soon as she can understand the concepts. I’m sorry you had such a negative experiance growing up, perhaps you were not adequately prepared to handle the fact that you were adopted since when you were growing up it was viewed by many as shameful and something to be embarassed about. Times change, unfortunately Christianity doesn’t, so instead of projecting your negative feelings towards gays you should look inward at your church and start by educating them on what real “Family Values” are–love, trust, caring, and honesty. Not just who you have sex with.

My personal opinion? Well, I’m a woman for equality – homosexuals should have the same opportunity as heterosexuals to adopt. With the rediculous amounts of orphans in this world (somewhere between 13-200 million worldwide, the numbers are very uncertain) surely all people who wish should be concidered as adoptive parents. Unfortunatly in todays world, every time a homosexual is rejected as an adoptive or foster parent, there is a huge community uproar, and with all of the suspition and deciet that may or may not be present, we may never know if they were rejected due to predjudice or if they were found unfit to care for a child.

What I can say is that I hope one day in the future, this cloud of uncertainty is removed from the system worldwide, and that the millions of orphans in this world are no longer deprived of the opportunties of a home they are being deprived of now, by the places that will not allow for safe and caring same sex couples to give a child a family.

its funny how most of you people who are for this gay right can only say things like “hetrosexuals abuse their kids” blah blah.. yeah its OLD NEWS, and whos to say that if homos where allowed to adopt and have kids they wouldn’t abuse them to? it goes both ways.

seriously its not like they just give the kid over to you, you have to wait sometimes 3 years+ (which means you have to really want the child, you can’t just want to adopt to get ‘GAY RIGHTS’) and when you are adopting you are USUALLY up against 2-3 sometimes 4 other couples wanting to adopt the same kid so what makes you think the biological parents are going to give their child to the gay couple [who can't have babies (by choice)] instead of the couple in which the female can’t have babies or just the f/m couple.. be honest to yourself, majority of bilogical parents would want there child to grow up with a mother & father. as for orphans without parents/foster kids, you still have to be security checked & when it is legal (if it ever is) in more places, a gay couple adopting/taking care of a foster kid will still be un common & so they will still most likely pick the straight parents. + not all, but MANY orphanages are run by some sort of religious group & they most likely will say no to gays. i experienced a lot of problems growing up with my parents, they are the most loving, giving & caring people ever, but i still experienced problems with myself & at school, with kids. and these problems didn’t just happen to me, they happend to many of my adopted friends who i have talked to. imagine how hard it would be if your parents where gay? i’m sorry if this comes across as offensive, i don’t dislike gays but i do have strong feelings towards this subject.