by Lynette Alice

Created on: July 16, 2008   Last Updated: May 10, 2009

When the issue of gay adoption arises there is something many people against this action fail to realize, it is about the child. It is not about what the Bible says, it is not about how a person feels about homosexuality. It is about the child, the rights of that child, the best interest of the child.

One of the long held arguments is that children should be raised by both a mother and father as it takes a man and woman to create life. That is a nice novel concept however that is completely ridiculous. How many children are raised by a single parent either because the persons whom created the child chose not to marry, became widowed, or even divorced with one parent having no custody rights? Are those children now placed in an inherently disadvantaged position in life because one parent is absent and not in keeping with the two parent home argument? Quite simply no, many go on to have very successful personal and professional lives and are well adjusted. If this argument held water there would be no such thing as single parent adopters or single parent foster care providers.

Is a household which has two same sex committed partners an inappropriate family for a child without any family based solely on that fact? Of course not. All children need as much love and support as they can get. Just because that love comes from same sex parents in no way means it is less than that which two opposite sex parents can provide. Can anyone provide any evidence otherwise? The only difference between a child raised in a heterosexual home and a homosexual home is just that. The child's parent(s) are either gay or straight. No other difference under the sun.

There is a group of people out there who hold the ill conceived belief that gay couples should not be allowed to adopt because they will try to raise their child to be gay or at the least use that child as a tool to push the gay agenda they so often say homosexuals are forcing on everyone. This is also a poorly thought out argument. People are who they are and you cannot force a person to be gay anymore than you can force a person to be straight. To draw the assumption that gay parents would do such a thing makes no more sense that saying straight parents try to force their children to be straight or push some straight agenda. It's well established that in some cases straight parents raise gay children and gay parents raise straight children. Parents regardless of sexual orientation should, and for the most part do, raise

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