Dave the Gnome,
You seem to be surprised and feeling misunderstood when people tell you that your ideas are part of the problem of discrimination against gay folks. Specifically, you seem to think you are not saying that we should take other peoples' bigotry into account when making social policy, and you seem to feel misunderstood when we tell you that's what you're doing. Here are some quotes from your posts that don't quite add up:

Nowhere in any of my posts have I suggested we should make social policy that will protect the closed world view of negatively judgmental people.

Putting them in an envornment where they are missing one of the major forces in their life and where they may become the subject of scorn or ridicule is not a good idea.

Until the majority of people accept and agree that standpoint though we cannot afford to risk moving our children from an environment with one set of problems just to put them in an environment with another.

Imagine that attitude being passed on to the foster children. "Oh, the poor little mites. Fancy them being under the care of those perverts..." Can't you just see it?

The only thing I have ever shown concern for is that predjudiced people are more likely to 'pick on' the children of gay couples . . .

Please tell me in what way does that show any degree of bias against gays.

Dave, it shows bias against gays because you are suggesting that gay homes are not good foster homes, while not suggesting that straight, single-parent, mixed-race, or religiously intolerant homes are equally not good foster homes. Why pick out the gay homes?

John Peekstok