Well if it makes anyone feel any better, I do feel a slightly more comfortable with the idea of gays playing "mommy and daddy" for the next generation now. (Not that it really matters at all, except to me). Personally I still don't like it, I wouldn't choose such a situation for myself and therefore never would I inflict it on anyone else - least of all a helpless child - but then again, I'll never have to, right? This time around, anyway.

I think I understand exactly how such parental "wanna-bes" would feel. If I were a lesbian for example, and stuck with the fact that I couldn't have kids the natural way, I might be thinking something like "NOT FAIR! WHAT AN UNENLIGHTENED, IDIOTIC, "MOOT" BIGOT NATURE IS! It's so good there's all this new technology, all these orphaned unwanted babies and politically correct bandstanders out there these days - now I can still get exactly what I THINK I want!

I know any kid I'd procure has a 99% chance of enduring a lifetime of psychological difficulties and social abuse, possibly even physical violence because of me and my lifestyle. But lots of gays, blacks, Jews etc pay that price - so what? The kid might even end up committing suicide if it can't handle the pressures of having me as a parent. WHo cares? Lots of kids blow themselves away anyhow.

I want it, that's what's most important. I'm gonna "LOOOOOOVE" it so much and be so very "kind" and "respectful" to it! Wife beaters, child abusers, pedophiles, drunks, crack addicts etc have kids, therefore so can I. I'm gonna get exactly what I want, right now, and no one can take that right away from me."

Things are different on a spiritual level, though. It is my understanding that we choose our families and our life situations before we are born, for reasons which are often incomprehensible from the vantage point of the mortal human mind. This is always a free choice - we never "have" to do anything, or "be" anyone, or even incarnate here at all if we choose not to.

That's why I'm a bit more comfortable with the whole scenario now - I have nothing to say about what another might choose. It's not my responsibility, and none of my business.

Thanks for helping me "see the Light" at the end of this very dark tunnel, folks.

daylia