Runner, I have never said anal sex was a healthy pursuit, just as other legal activities like smoking, drinking alcohol, or eating unhealthy foods. However, people will continue to indulge in these legal activities if it is pleasurable to them. It does not make me or anyone else 'perverted' if they acknowledge gay men their right to have sex in their own way.

Your little article from the mad paper you cited above does not show that the Urologist was sacked because he spoke out against the health problems suffered by gay men, but rather that he ranted about the evils and morals of homosexual behavior on the hospital intranet, which is not appropriate for a staff member to do....it was clearly discrimination against some members of the community.

You were just putting your own perverted stance onto the hospital's actions against a homophobic doctor.

Foxy,
I think approval of adoptions is done by Community Services Dept.
Considering the way all these cases against priests and others are
coming up 20, 30 years later would you as a public servant think twice
or even three times about allowing a couple of homosexual men to adopt
a boy or a girl ?
Would you be laying yourself open to a charge of incompetence at the
least and/or of placing a child in danger.

It would appear to me to be the height of stupidity by such a public servant.

Hi Suse,

You might be onto something: anal sex, heavy smoking or drinking are not illegal, even if those behaviours present some dangers, but many people get pleasure out of one or more of those. They shouldn't be stopped legally from doing so.

So, how far does one go with that right (and that analogy) ? Are heavy smokers and heavy drinkers are allowed to get married ? Yes, if one is male and the other is female. Are they allowed to foster children ? I don't know. Are they allowed to adopt children ? I don't know. Should they ? I'm not so sure.

Can single people, i.e. an unmarried couple, de facto couples, foster or adopt ? ? I don't know. Somebody in the business might know.

In other words, what restrictions are already in place, in terms of 'character', behaviour, habits, etc., which hedge people's rights to foster or adopt children ? And should those restrictions be lifted specifically for a particular situation ?

Just trying to get back on track :)

Joe

You just proved what I said. You can't imagine anyone not seeing you the you the way you see yourself and, along with that, I'm obviously stupid because you say so, but you do not have a weakness because I say so.

And despite you deeming me not to be chuffed, I assure you I was and am.

Terence wrote: I am a man; I find nothing human uninteresting. 23 centuries later, and AJ Philips comes up with: I am man; I find nothing about me uninteresting.

Most posters here don't feel the need to announce what what they "know a bit about", and by default intimate that means other's opinions are wrong. I'm not going to BS about my credentials, save to say that you ate straight out of a textbook.

AJ, The difference in the way we've calculated our figures isn't significant, the survey I cited also came up with over 20% of respondants claiming to have at some time felt attracted to a person of the same gender but never acted upon those feelings, all of the people who'd had that passing phase identified themselves as heterosexual.
Homosexual attraction is a juvenile fancy in most cases, young people still trying to work out the boundaries between friendship, intimacy and love. Studies of adults over the age of 18 show a much lower percentage of passing same sex attraction, it was only when the study was extended to include 16 year olds that the figure jumped up to over 20%.

Poirot, none of your sources are reliable, the pro refugee sites and The Guardian lie about this issue all of the time and omit data from their releases when it doesn't suit their agenda, show me actual numbers broken down by age at time of detention. The only figures I can find are from 2012 and they show that 87% of detainees are male, 87% are over the age of 18 and of those under the age of 18 only 20% are female. When we talk about men in this context it's anyone of fighting age, so from 15 to 60 though a boy of 12 or 13 from the Third world is technically a man capable of taking on adult responsibilites, despite what bleeding heart leftists say.

Hi Loudmouth, this evening after work I looked up about criteria needed to adopt kids in Australia. I found the official website and was surprised at how relaxed they seem.
It did say the wait for a baby was years long.

https://www.dcp.wa.gov.au/FosteringandAdoption/AdoptionAndHomeForLife/Pages/AllAboutAdoption.aspx

Certainly the age, health, relationship stability, culture, religion, race and education of prospective adoptive parents are taken into consideration. However, it does say they will agree for single people and gay couples to adopt kids, if the relinquishing parents are open to that.

It seemed to me that one main reason prospective adoptive parents are knocked back is if they are too old. Apparently they must be well enough and young enough to be likely to still be active and alive for their adopted child in 20-25 years.

So, I would imagine that smokers and/or heavy drinkers would have no chance in adopting a child, given that they must have strict medical assessments before they can be chosen to adopt a child.

There were no special health considerations re gay couples mentioned at all.