No, John, I do not think gays should be legally barred from raising children. I should think that would have been staggeringly obvious. :-)

I think that a knee-jerk approach to always supporting a given side in some common social issue without any real forethought or investigation into the individual circumstances has become a prevailing social illness on the part of both liberals AND conservatives AND the media. That's why I'm drawing attention to it.

It's called "judging the book by its cover". Not much use if you can't be bothered to read the book.

Liberals are just as guilty of it as conservatives. I am what would generally be termed liberal...or perhaps radical-liberal...but I do not let other liberals get away easily with lazy thinking when they indulge in it. And boy, do they ever! They'd rather sound right than actually be right.

Stilly, are you feuding with daylia again? Tsk, tsk. I am going to have to see if I can arrange a weekend for four in Barbados for you, daylia, Martin Gibson, and Jack the Sailor...and then film it for Reality TV. Or maybe get you all on the Jerry Springer show or something like that...