The idiots who are not worth responding to think that they are going to stop others from speaking their minds by calling them homophobes, bigots and whatever names their limited vocabulary permits.

An open post to the idiots who would like to call me a homophobe and bigot - be my guest. It will not make a damn of difference to me, what I think, and what I post.

Pete,

What on earth are you talking about? "Wrong ends" - sounds like an attempt at a joke against homosexuals. Are you sure that your aren't a bigoted homophobe, too?

ttbn

Me make a "joke"? Never!

I think it was my mate Oscar Wilde who said:

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."

ttbn,

Unless you can provide a rational explanation as to why allowing homosexual couples to adopt children is a "truly horrible prospect", then I'm afraid you ARE just a homophobe.

"Australia desperately needs adoption reform. What we don't need is poorly-conceived adoption legislation, like the same sex adoption Bill recently introduced into the Victorian Parliament, which will result in future governments apologising to a generation of angry and grieving birth mothers and fathers."

No. It will not.

It will not for the same reason as there will be no need for a future apology for adoptions by families hated by other (ie, other than homophobes) bigots like islamaphobes and racists.

yes, I used the "B" word. Not unexpectedly, already there have been squawks about 'don't call people "bigots" just because they are saying what they think". Sorry. If you say racist things, you're a racist. If you talk rirrationally about your hatred of Muslims, you're an Islamaphobe. If you make baseless anti-LGB comments, you're a homophobe. And if you are any of these things, for no good reason, then you're a bigot. Freedom of speech is not freedom from criticism. So if the show fits ...

By the way, when will homophobes realise that same-sex couples are already a thing and stop dredging up family composition issues whenever matters of legal rights for same sex couples comes up?

This article left me a bit confused. Is the author concerned at faith-based adoption agencies losing the right to refuse to place children with same-sex couples, or the right of birth parents to have a say in the families where their children are adopted? She seems to be mixing the two, assuming that removing the adoption agencies’ exemption automatically diminishes birth parents’ influence on where their children are adopted. But this is not necessarily the case.

Just to give some idea of the numbers involved, there were four (4) local adoptions in WA in 2013-4.