Topic: Gay Adoption.

[Gobias Industries]

I just think a child needs a mother and a father figure. Thats how it should be imo.

Have fun living in Pleasantville with your Stepford Wife.

[Gobias Industries]

Are you serious? What world do some of you people live in, 99.9% of the time a kid would be bullied for having gay parents. I don't see how people can't grasp that fact. Kids can be utter bastards especially when theres a group of them.

And 99.9% of the time a kid would be bullied for having NO parents as well. Difference is one of those kids has a loving and stable family and the other one doesn't.

[Solomon Grundy]

Have fun living in Pleasantville with your Stepford Wife.

Whats that supposed to mean you bell?

[DJBrenton]

Should we stop Ginger people from Breeding due to the possibility the kid MIGHT be bullied in 10 years time?

No, the chance the kid might be ginger is reason enough.

[rednich85]

Whats that supposed to mean you bell?

He is making fun of you because of your idealistic approach that (shock horror!!) a child should have a mother AND father figures in their lives....you know...just like the Stepford Wives....

People crying foul when anyone should say a child should have a mother and father....not a mother and mother.....not a father and father.

Mothers bring parenting qualities that fathers don't possess just as father bring parenting qualities that mother don't possess.

I think it would be unfair to label anyone that thinks that a child should have a mother and father. Its not small minded in my opinion. Its just the way things have come about.....since.....well...since probably the start of mankind.

[rednich85]

What about two gay couples......adopting the one child....a male gay couple and a female gay couple.

Would that be acceptable?

[lauz]

What about two gay couples......adopting the one child....a male gay couple and a female gay couple.

Would that be acceptable?

How would that work? do they all live together?

[rednich85]

How would that work? do they all live together?

Well, yes...I suppose so.

[lauz]

Well, yes...I suppose so.

I personally don't think that would work, mainly because I doubt the two couples would want to live together for 18 years to look after the child.

[Solomon Grundy]

He is making fun of you because of your idealistic approach that (shock horror!!) a child should have a mother AND father figures in their lives....you know...just like the Stepford Wives....

People crying foul when anyone should say a child should have a mother and father....not a mother and mother.....not a father and father.

Mothers bring parenting qualities that fathers don't possess just as father bring parenting qualities that mother don't possess.

I think it would be unfair to label anyone that thinks that a child should have a mother and father. Its not small minded in my opinion. Its just the way things have come about.....since.....well...since probably the start of mankind.

He is making fun of you because of your idealistic approach that (shock horror!!) a child should have a mother AND father figures in their lives....you know...just like the Stepford Wives....

People crying foul when anyone should say a child should have a mother and father....not a mother and mother.....not a father and father.

Mothers bring parenting qualities that fathers don't possess just as father bring parenting qualities that mother don't possess.

I think it would be unfair to label anyone that thinks that a child should have a mother and father. Its not small minded in my opinion. Its just the way things have come about.....since.....well...since probably the start of mankind.

I thought as much thats why I called him a bell. And I totally agree with what you are saying.

[rednich85]

I personally don't think that would work, mainly because I doubt the two couples would want to live together for 18 years to look after the child.

Well thats a bit small minded.....of course it could work!! (see what I did there?)

Who is to say that 'parents' should only consist of one couple?

[Solomon Grundy]

But if that's a reason for not allowing adoption for gay couples, then why let single parent familes take care of their own children?

It also suggests that any child brought up by only a mother or a father would have suffered in some way. I don't believe that's necessarily the case at all.

There is a massive number of children these days who are brought up by just a mother, or just a father. Is that wrong? Should we stop that from happening? After all, that poor child NEEDS a mother AND a father, right?

I think kids can grow up perfectly fine in a one parent family, BUT ask that child what they'd rather have. Living with mummy, daddy or both? And a bet the large majority of them would say both.

[Gobias Industries]

He is making fun of you because of your idealistic approach that (shock horror!!) a child should have a mother AND father figures in their lives....you know...just like the Stepford Wives....

People crying foul when anyone should say a child should have a mother and father....not a mother and mother.....not a father and father.

Mothers bring parenting qualities that fathers don't possess just as father bring parenting qualities that mother don't possess.

I think it would be unfair to label anyone that thinks that a child should have a mother and father. Its not small minded in my opinion. Its just the way things have come about.....since.....well...since probably the start of mankind.

No, I'm making fun of his blinkered opinion that all children have a mother and father available to them. Congratulations, I'm now doing the same to you.

[Gobias Industries]

I think kids can grow up perfectly fine in a one parent family, BUT ask that child what they'd rather have. Living with mummy, daddy or both? And a bet the large majority of them would say both.

FOR A LOT OF CHILDREN THAT ISN'T AN OPTION!!!!!!

What is so difficult about that to understand? Really, I'd love to know.

[Finn Solomon]

FOR A LOT OF CHILDREN THAT ISN'T AN OPTION!!!!!!

What is so difficult about that to understand? Really, I'd love to know.

Yeah, but for children waiting to be adopted it is an option for them. I think that's what they're referring to.

[lauz]

Yeah, but for children waiting to be adopted it is an option for them. I think that's what they're referring to.

Don't think you really get a choice who adopts you if you're a child.

[Sri Sudachan]

Yeah, but for children waiting to be adopted it is an option for them. I think that's what they're referring to.

 Sadly there are more children in need of a family home than there are people willing to take them on 

[Finn Solomon]

Don't think you really get a choice who adopts you if you're a child.

I stand corrected.

[AriGold]

Astonishing the way you can't have a different opinion to everyone else without anyone quastioning it.

[America's Sweetheart]

But if that's a reason for not allowing adoption for gay couples, then why let single parent familes take care of their own children?

You are SO right. The worst thing, though, for any child would be to dragged up and perverted by a single parent who was QUEER. It just doesn't bear thinking about it.

Though if we try to be fair and see both sides - even if one of them is DISGUSTING - the world would be much more colour-coordinated, theatrical, and artistic if we let more homos adopt.

[Cochise]

Astonishing the way you can't have a different opinion to everyone else without anyone quastioning it.

Isn't it just.

[Corkboy]

Though if we try to be fair and see both sides - even if one of them is DISGUSTING - the world would be much more colour-coordinated, theatrical, and artistic if we let more homos adopt.

Typical bigoted stance. There are some straight people who are capable of matching a decent pair of capri pants with a nice scarf, you know.

Theatrical, ok, I'll give you that one.

[America's Sweetheart]

Astonishing the way you can't have a different opinion to everyone else without anyone quastioning it.

I KNO!!!!!!!!!!111111

When I express my opinion on the interweb I expect everyone else to instantly understand that I am RIGHT WITHOUT QUESTION and then move on to the next issue. Like the colour of your bins, Purple Aki, or why all these no-good foriegn twats need to get the fuck out of Anfield. Um. Except for Torres who is PRACTICALLY ENGLISH anyway.

[the 92A]

If you're a parent you bring your kids up well and one of them happens to be gay, because they happen to be attracted to the same sex, that makes them unsuitable to bring up kids, doesn't sound right to me. Your sexuality has fuck all to do with your ability to raise kids.

[Sri Sudachan]

You are SO right. The worst thing, though, for any child would be to dragged up and perverted by a single parent who was QUEER. It just doesn't bear thinking about it.

Though if we try to be fair and see both sides - even if one of them is DISGUSTING - the world would be much more colour-coordinated, theatrical, and artistic if we let more homos adopt.

This is the type of person who shouldn't be raising children.

[Corkboy]

This is the type of person who shouldn't be raising children.

I think you missed the irony.

[Sri Sudachan]

I think you missed the irony.

 I'm just pointing it out, thanks

[Corkboy]

I'm just pointing it out, thanks

So I missed the irony?

[Sri Sudachan]

So I missed the irony?

 Not at all, i know your views here, I read them.. but there are people here who think that's the right moral way to bring
 up children..sorry if it got lost somewhere.

[Corkboy]

Not at all, i know your views here, I read them.. but there are people here who think that's the right moral way to bring
 up children..sorry if it got lost somewhere.

It's like that bit in The Simpsons where the two teens are at the music festival.

"That's soooo cooool"
"Are you being sarcastic?"
"Dude, I don't even know any more".

[Sri Sudachan]

It's like that bit in The Simpsons where the two teens are at the music festival.

"That's soooo cooool"
"Are you being sarcastic?"
"Dude, I don't even know any more".

 Never seen the Simpsons, so thats lost on me also 

[DJBrenton]

Until you've seen the Simpsons, your views will only ever be of limited interest. 

[Corkboy]

Never seen the Simpsons,

That is, by some distance, the most shocking thing in this thread.

[xavidub]

Astonishing the way you can't have a different opinion to everyone else without anyone quastioning it.

Try being a gay person attempting to adopt and you will soon find out how many people manage to question it...

[Gobias Industries]

Try being a gay person attempting to adopt and you will soon find out how many people manage to question it...

You've just said that to one of the few people on Earth who can, if he so chooses, make a conscious decision to start craving cock.

I look forward to his response.

[OrangeMochaFraps]

http://justjared.buzznet.com/2010/08/16/neil-patrick-harris-david-burtka-expecting-a-boy-girl/

Are you telling me you guys wouldn't want NPH as your father?  If so, then you're lying.

[Chakan]

http://justjared.buzznet.com/2010/08/16/neil-patrick-harris-david-burtka-expecting-a-boy-girl/

Are you telling me you guys wouldn't want NPH as your father?  If so, then you're lying.

I find it hilarious that he plays a womanizing bastard in How I met your mother. Happy for him!

[JoeTwerp]

If you're a parent you bring your kids up well and one of them happens to be gay, because they happen to be attracted to the same sex, that makes them unsuitable to bring up kids, doesn't sound right to me. Your sexuality has fuck all to do with your ability to raise kids.

well I don't think most of the anti-arguments are made on sexuality, I think only the most ignorant are thinking that its a gay conspiracy and that they would raise their kid to be gay.

Their arguments are on the basis of gender.  And gender does affect the way you parent, generally.  However, as has been pointed out, so fucking what.  Having two parents of the same gender totally pwns not having any.

Also, I am not sure how 'natural' it is to be raised by one mother and one father anyway.

Possible slogan for gay adoption:
It takes a village to raise a child . . . so why not let the village people?

[DJBrenton]

http://justjared.buzznet.com/2010/08/16/neil-patrick-harris-david-burtka-expecting-a-boy-girl/

Are you telling me you guys wouldn't want NPH as your father?  If so, then you're lying.

I would hate to have a him as my father. He's 18 years younger than me for a start.

[Una cerveza, por favor]

I would hate to have a him as my father. He's 18 years younger than me for a start.