poor kids bound to be confused. Its hard enough now for kids in dysfunctional families. Why increase the dysfunction and pain in the community.

Isn't it already happening?

For what it's worth, my response is NO, they should not be able to adopt children.

Well I'm going to be honest here.

I really don't know how I feel on this issue.

I know that homosexual couples (male and female)
are already adopting children and I know that
the most important thing for a child is to be
loved and cared for - and live in a happy and
loving environment.

However, my own fellings on this issue are mixed.
I was hoping that I would find some answers reading
all your responses. Perhaps I'm more conservative on
this subject than I realised.

a few quotes from one man brought up by 'gay' parents

'“I had an inexplicable compulsion to have sex with older males,” he recounted, saying he “wanted to have sex with older men who were my father’s age, though at the time I could scarcely understand what I was doing.”'

one girl brought up by lesbians

'“Now we are normalizing a family structure where a child will always be deprived daily of one gender influence and the relationship with at least one natural parent,” she explains, “Our cultural narrative becomes one that, in essence, tells children that they have no right to the natural family structure or their bi'

'“I grew up with a parent and her partner[s] in an atmosphere in which gay ideology was used as a tool of repression, retribution and abuse,” B.N. Klein wrote of her experience with a lesbian mother. “I have seen that children in gay households often become props to be publicly displayed to prove that gay families are just like heterosexual ones.”'

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/lauretta-brown/adults-raised-gay-couples-speak-out-against-gay-marriage-federal-court

Maybe that is why you have some reservations Foxy

I suppose what I am concerned about is
making things difficult for the child.
Now this may sound odd - and I'm not sure that
I'm putting it well - but children usually want
to be like their peers growing up. They don't want
to be "different." I know this from my own
experience when my sandwiches ar school were not
the norm, and my grand-mother's hand-knitted
exquisite jumpers were laughed up by the other kids.
I wanted to blend in and "belong."

Therein lies my mixed feelings on this issue.
On the other side of the coin - as gran used to say -
"Be proud - you don't want to be
just like everybody else - it's character-building."
But to a small child that just went over my head.
I didn't understand what she had in mind until much
later in life.

cont'd ...

I think that perhaps the main concern is being
ridiculed because of one's parents. Kids
ask questions, and being that "different" will have
consequences at school and could result in bullying.
From the parents point of view - it somehow smacks
of selfishness.

Dear runner,

Kids wanting to have gay sex if they have gay
parents? That did not even occur to me in this issue.