Should gay couples be given the same legal rights as heterosexuals in adopting children?

I think whoever wants to adpot should be able to adopt. If you can pass all the tests and stuff they make you go through, then who is to say who can and cannot adopt. Someone else wrote that when they are given up for adoption the parents might say they dont want a gay couple to adopt there kid. My anwser to this is oh well because they gave up there child...Should gay couples be given the same legal rights as heterosexuals in adopting children?
No. Homosexuality should not be impressed upon innocent children. I know I'm discriminating and I'm sorry, but it's not something I agree with. I think homosexuality is a mental disorder...not a lifestyle choice.Should gay couples be given the same legal rights as heterosexuals in adopting children?
Yes, if they can provide safe home.
Yes.
Not without a complete rewrite of the adoption code. There are those giving up children to adoption that would prefer it go to a heterosexual couple, the children from these would need to be identified.
Nope. Kids need a mom and a dad, they get something different from each.
Sure, why not





The only thing matters that the children are in a loving home, with caring parents.
hell no! i have no interest in speeding up damnation for the rest of us.
absolutely. they are still human, and as long as they can pass the same hurdles that heterosexual couples have to, then they are just as qualified to raise a child.
Hell no, that's just nasty. Talk about child abuse forcing a child to grow up in that indecency.
Yes. Gay people have the same capacity to love and care for a child that you will find in a heterosexual couple.
Are there any valid reasons not to give them equal rights? This is America; every person is entitled to equal rights.
I would have to say morally, no. Legally, yes. It will be hard on the child as it gets older having two parents of the same sex and could be mentally and emotionally damaging. Legally though, but the constitution, we are suppose to all be equal and have equal rights regardless of race, sex, or sexual preference.
OF COURSE!!! my uncle is gay and has two kids (from a previous marriage) and hes a great dad and uncle.He loves his sons with all his heart...but because he loves a man hes a bad father??How dare you imply that because they love a man or woman that they shouldnt be allowed to be loving and nurturing parent??AND just to let yall know his Sons Jake and Josh both have girlfriends and one play football and the other play soccer so how gay are they?!
NO. Just think of what the child would go through when all the kids at his school realise he has two dads (or two mums). Anyway, it just wouldnt be right %26amp; i think the whole issue is sick.
Yes. Many anti-gay people will answer no because they dont want children to be raised to be gay. Well, unless you think that the V.P. and his wife are gay, then it is rather obvious that the sexual orientation of your parents has nothing to do with whether you are gay.





There are many children who need a good loving home. As long as heterosexual couples are able to adopt a child, then the same standards used to allow them to adopt should be used for homosexual couples.
No.





I have no problem with gay couples about their living styles.


They have their own right to choose it.





We, as human being, understand that in order to produce a new life, you need a sperm from a male and an egg from a female to form a new life. This is a very very true fact. I don't think we can deny the fact. Given this fact, we understand that a normal and healthy family must consist of a male who is a father and a female who is a mother. We want to give our kids or adopted children a correct image about what a family is. If they choose to be a gay couple when they are grown up, that's okay because they can choose their living style when they are grown up. But as parents, I think we ought to give them a clear definition about what a true family is i.e. a father and a mother and them.
No
There are so many children out there without homes and with no one to love them. I absolutly support adoption by gay couples.


I know a lot of gay couples who would love to adopt a child, I think the couples I know would make wonderful parents!
[giggle]





Many people who answered seemed to think that if you're around gays, you ';catch'; it from them.





You know what that says about YOU, right? Children, can you spell 'latent'? (I mean, if they were assured in their own sexuality, they wouldn't think that proximity would effect it.)





Not really funny, I suppose.





Of course: If a couple is found to be capable of providing a good and loving home, by all the regular ';tests'; (except one) they should be allowed to adopt.





Not being allowed by the government to marry should NOT bar couples from adopting children or babies.
As long as they give the child a loving home, then why not?
yes. Even Bill O'rielly says having a child adopted to a gay family is much better than foster care. If gays are held to the same standard as straights when it comes to adoption than I think it is ok. A loving home with stability and structure is a much better environment for children than being in foster care.
Of course.





Unlike hetero couples, gay couples have to actively seek out a method of ';having children';.





They can't just go ';oops!'; and have a kid. They have to go through the proper channels, agree to background checks, and often pay large sums of money.





Loving couples who go through this obviously want to be parents, and I'd have to say they're the kind of people that should be allowed to adopt.
Never. This is just taking all this political correct nonsense a step too far. It won't surprise me that they will succeed in getting this law passed.





Children need a proper home. Okay, life is not perfect and we have one parent families, etc and I am sure the gay community will have the very best law representatives on their side. The fact that this is even a question being asked shows how close we are becoming to madness. I'm not homophobic. But no, its wrong. The worst thing is it will probably be some idiot like Elton John who gets to adopt the first baby, and will get nothing but good PR from it. We live in sad times were anything is possible.
Yes! I think they should have to prove that they are in a committed relationship and have a back round check just like a heterosexual couple, but heck yeah! Weather you think being gay is wrong or not, kids are certainly better off in a gay couple's home than in a group home or orphanage. Having someone to care for you and love you as an individual is much more important than who your parents are attracted to.





I think that people who oppose it are willing to deny a child a happy healthy home for a rediculouse reason. How many straight parents abuse, neglect, preasure, and otherwise mistreat their children? How selfish and hateful, so many people willing to leave children abandoned rather than live with gay people!
I personally don't think they should, because legally a gay ';marriage'; isn't recognized legally, so I say no. However, there are plenty of straight parents that expose and do some pretty horroble things to kids, so why not?
NO. THAT IS NOT A NORMAL UNION THUS IT SHOULD NOT BE PERPETUATED.
Certainly those hot lipstick lesbian types should... and gay guys, if they're both not too effeminate. If the moms are way butch or the dads are really gay-gay, then the kids will get made fun of too much.