I hate PC, how can something so wrong be called correct?
My bias Philo? a few children?
In schools and Church run institutions thousands of kids, even in this mornings news have been miss treated.
I understand my view, not yet set in stone, is not one that makes me popular, but only with a minority.
Yet based only on the Child, give me comfort in the promise the kids will Be loved respected and not indoctrinated into their adopted parents life style.
And without doubt some of them will be better of than kids of some heterosexuals who never should be able to have kids.
I want however to highlight SOME gays, minority views holders often do it, as do Christians, over use the term bias without understanding it proves bias,, but on their part .

This really deals with the few thousand children already cared for by gay parents, for whom one is the natural sole parent, and the other a defacto partner and parent of several years standing. This is simply legally recognising a de facto relationship.

Given the small number of children up for adoption in Aus the chances of gay parents getting an unknown child are still near zero and this argument is a complete furphy.

<< So all this hysteria over gay adoption is actually about the partners of gay parents being able to adopt their partners child. >>

Great posts from StG and suzeonline. You're right, of course. This hysteria being whipped up by the fundies and homophobes is really a confected excuse to try and stop gay people formally adopting their partners' kids. It's just a disingenuous way of putting the boot into gays by trotting out the good old "what about the children" line.

I hadn't really thought about that until reading about it here, so I guess these threads perform a more useful function than just providing a platform for homophobes after all.

I saw the obnoxious Fred Nile on TV last night babbling on about it. He deployed the slippery slope argument, claiming that this is "just another right" being claimed by homosexuals - next they'll be wanting to marry as well, like everybody else. Nile has no interest in the children, rather he is openly campaigning to maintain discrimination against gays and their kids.

Which is exactly what the godbotherers and other homophobes who have their knickers in a twist about this issue want too, apparently. Their days of legitimised bigotry are numbered, as evidenced by the successful passage of the NSW legislation.

In the case of one partner already having children from a hetrosexual relationship the other could not adopt unless the natural father was dead or had given up his total acess and legal rights to the child. In the case of property the other partner could "will" property to whomsoever he / she wills and is not dependent upon adoption.

Belly for your information: Children only exist as a result of a union between a man and a woman, never from persons of the same sex. Both a father and a mother are involved in the conception of a child. That Gay Priests have sex with boys will never result in a child, as evil as that practise is. Two gay priests or two gay men should never have the custody of children.

You spurious view that:" ..the Child .. not indoctrinated into their adopted parents life style." Children learn what adults practise and want to emulate such.

Philo,

How much gay porn would it take for you to 'become gay'?