My question is: should LGBT people be allowed to adopt kids?
I'm sensing a lot of Biblically-inspired hatred of gays on this forum, but I'm hoping that people of compassion and reason will rise to the occasion and reply "yes, they should be allowed to adopt kids!"
Maybe my hope in humanity is misplaced.
Me personally? I was orphaned when I was 8, passed around from foster family to foster family until I ran away to live with my Grandparents my last year of H.S., so yeah, I say let them adopt if they want. A stable family unit, even if it were two people of the same gender would have been a lot less strenuous on me as a kid than going through 3 different families.
And, my final tour in Norfolk, I rented a room from a lesbian couple for a couple of years. One of them had a daughter from a long ago marriage, and from everything I could see, she was a happy, healthy, outgoing young woman of 13 years old who was bright and well liked.
Incidentally, she also was seriously boy crazy and liked dudes, even though her mother and her mother's partner had been together for 10 years of her life, since she had been 3.
Nope, I see no problem with it. Not only would it give some kids who need a home like I did when I was growing up, but it also doesn't have any negative effect on kids that I could see during that 2 years I lived with them. Tawnya was a perfectly regular teen age girl, and both Cindy and Connie loved her very much and taught her well.