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Thread #45320   Message #669883
Posted By: Desdemona
15-Mar-02 - 07:12 PM
Thread Name: BS: Gay Adoption-Yea or Nay
Subject: RE: BS: Gay Adoption-Yea or Nay
First, in answer to Paul Burke's query re:"London Bridge", yes, I know that version; it also has a different tune to the one most of us knew growing up. In fact, one of my kids has it on a traditional lullabyes sort of tape that's somewhere in my house....

More importantly, not that I need to add my 2 cents at this point (when has this stopped me?!), the main criteria for "fitness" as a parent is the willingness & ability to love a child and provide it with a safe, nurturing & stable environment. Sexual orientation has exactly NOTHING to do with a person(or couple)'s capacity to provide these things. The people who oppose gay people adopting children would apparently rather see these kids languish in foster care for years, until they reach "maturity" and are thrown into society having never known a stable, secure home, than allow a loving, compassionate person to GIVE them that home, based solely on the fact that they don't conform to a picture-perfect stereotypical image of what a family "should" be.

THAT'S immorality, if you ask me.