Why should 'birth parents' have any say when they have given up a child? Why no discussion on the truly horrible prospect of a child being handed over to a pair of homosexuals?

For the very few people who give up their babies for adoption in Australia each year, I think it is a good idea to allow them to make some choices about where the baby goes to. At least they made a better decision than deciding to abort their unwanted baby.

If I were a relinquishing parent though, I would rather my baby went to a loving gay couple than to a nasty homophobic and/or racist couple for instance. People who have a blanket dislike or hatred of all gay people would make angry parents who teach their children hatred.

One stipulation I might make would be that I didn't want my child to go to a very religious family, as I would prefer my child to go to a less rigid, more open-minded family.
I wouldn't go to any 'faith-based' adoption agency in the first place...

Suseonline, "If I were a relinquishing parent though, I would rather my baby went to a loving gay couple than to a nasty homophobic and/or racist couple for instance"

You have already stated that there are very few children available for adoption and it follows that many ideal couples will wait in vain.

That is the situation faced by one of my contractors and his wife. They made the mistake of waiting a little too long to have a family (wanted to be established and a small business is hard to set up) and then poured their hearts and a small fortune into exhausting the medical means to have a child, but to no avail. A very stable couple who can offer the best for a child, but no go.

As well, many women (and men) have no option but to spend long years in education. Some professions are very demanding, requiring dedication and a monastic existence, no-one can afford the $$ and time for a social life. Coupling comes later and sometimes too late for the fertility promised and spruiked by overly optimistic 'experts' in the women's movement and the talking heads on The Box.

Your flawed false comparisons and special pleading for gays are devoid of consideration of what is best for the children and why you would have your subjective criteria dominate.

Yes ttbn

There is that danger they may adopt a little boy for the wrong end.

Chances they will encourage him to go out and meet girls when he's 12?

Oh of course OTB, it is the feminists fault for couples waiting too long to try for a family. They are the root of all evil in our society.
Lol!
Did your male employee not have a say in putting off the family then? Men never try to put off having a baby do they...

As I said, there are so few babies put up for adoption in this country, that the chance of any gay couple getting an adoptive child here is almost impossible. So these sort of homophobic rants from those raving about gay people not being allowed to adopt kids "because it isn't natural" always amuses me.

I would hate any child of mine to grow up in such a household full of bigots and homophobes. Hatred and intolerance is such a negative influence on a child.

I brought up my kids to be tolerant of others and to take each person as they are.
Those who bring their kids up to hate others because of their sexuality, race, religion (or no religion) or color should be charged with child abuse.

Yeah you're right Suse.

Male gay couples should only be allowed to adopt little girls.