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The topic here is almost an oxymoron; Lesbian and Gay adoption rights. Common sense would tell us their is no such thing as adoption rights for any family that is not made up of a Mother and a Father. Not because the two people making up that union are incapable or anything, but because of what the child is bound to go through as a kid. Don't get all riled. I should have the privilege to say my mind. If someone has the privilege to publicly proclaim they are lesbian or gay then I should have the privilege to publicly proclaim I am against that deviation to the intended committed relationship.

My position having been made let me assure you, my stance of no adoption rights for gay or lesbian unions, has nothing to do with the lesbian or the gay having the capability or the prowess to adequately bring a human being from babydom to young adulthood. I am certain they probably do have that skill. I have done so on several occasions and have found it not to be all that difficult. My reasonings for saying lesbians and gays should not have the right to adoption has to do with the child exclusively. I could care less how screwed up anyone wants to make their own life, just leave the kids out of it.

I speak somewhat out of experience. I wasn't raised by either lesbians or gays but I was raised in a dysfunctional family. In 1954 my Mother divorced my Father; I was 5 years old. No big deal, divorces happen, even in the fifties. They are not a good thing, but we survive. The problem with my particular situation is that my Mother, a white woman of staunch English and hard Irish descent, married a black man.

That was a little more of a big deal. A black man marrying a white woman in 1950s America. I guess you had to be there, well I was. Here is where my objection to lesbian and gay adoption rights comes in. In fact my objection spans even further than that. I intensely object to any kind of mixed or deviant relationship having rights to adopt anybody.

Celebrities going to Africa to adopt a black baby, two lesbians wanting to fulfill their maternal urges by adopting a child, two gays wanting to prove they can be good Father/Father figures to a child. These are all selfish scenarios. None of them have the child's interests at heart. They are not planning for the child at all. Don't they remember their own childhood?

I was the white nigger-lover wherever I went as a kid. I got beat up, pushed around, shunned, ignored, ostracized, absolutely cast out. I was nothing. I was lower than

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