Should gay people be allowed to adopt?

You need to have a word with your liberal brethren. They're on the verge of forcing people to accept gay couples as adoptive parents because to do otherwise would mean discwimination. I think we've finally discovered who the real bigots are.

Its not a topic i dwell on. I regard homosexuality to be a mental illness, so the last thing i would do is waste time on the topic of it. I only have about 4 posts in this thread.

-You?
-You do realise I am gay, yes?

Why is it that when you discuss homosexuality in any way, most of the people who want to have a say in it are men, and almost always most of the arguments are strictly concerning men? I find it quite interesting.

I'm pretty certain (though I don't care enough to go find statistics to back me up) that male couples are a lot more common than female couples.

Yes, and it stinks of BS. Obviously in some cases calculations and compromises may need to be made if the supply of children vastly outweighs the number of potential parents, but if the situation is reversed it puts children and their biological parents in a position where they're able to pick and choose. Your anti-discrimination model isn't flexible enough to be able to take this into account because it prevents people from choosing what they think is right for them, you're more concerned with the feelings of minorities. I don't see how this helps the adoption process.

I'm pretty certain (though I don't care enough to go find statistics to back me up) that male couples are a lot more common than female couples.

Mmmm. Off the top of my head, around 10% of the population is LGBT, and around half of those are "gay men". Bear in mind, though, that this is based on census data, which isn't necessarily going to be representative if people aren't declaring their sexual orientation.

I remember from the debate before the Civil Partnership Act was passed, some stats which showed that gay male couples were less common but tended to last longer than lesbian couples. Can't remember where those stats were, they're probably not useful any more anyway, but it was interesting at the time.



Should be just over half lesbians I guess. Women are slightly more than half of the general population.

Don't forget the bi and straight people that fall into LGBT too

Apologies, I didn't realise that only straight people were capable of bigotry (I'm sure there's irony in there somewhere). No matter, the principle I've being arguing is that your sexuality has absolutely no bearing on whether you should be considered a suitable adoptive parent. If a private agency/couple specified that they want the child to have gays adoptive parents I wouldn't start stomping my feet and waving the human rights charter around, I'd accept their decision with grace on the understanding that it's their business not mine. Why can't the gay community act with the same dignity and try to understand another persons point of view?

Hmm that is interesting.


With your reply to tortious; if 50% are gay men, and a certain percentage are Trans-sexual/gender, bi etc. then it must be fewer than 50% are gay women.

That's what I mean. If you say 50% are gay men, you're probably talking about 50% of LG, and forgetting about BT and the rest of the alphabet.

Gay marriage?
Gay people adopting?

The child will be isolated within society, it is going to be pretty rare to see someone with gay parents so the child is immediately attracting (potentially unwanted) attention. Sure, there are a few happy people with gay parents, but does that speak for everyone? I come from a rubbish background and if a kid with gay parents attended my old secondary school they would lead a very miserable life. They could, however, keep it a secret and when they progress to higher levels of eduction it will become less problematic.

There are a whole load of other issues which I cba to go through, but school life is definitely the most important.

Its not a topic i dwell on. I regard homosexuality to be a mental illness, so the last thing i would do is waste time on the topic of it. I only have about 4 posts in this thread.

No I think Tortious meant that 50% of LGBT are gay men, and so backing up my point that there are probably more gay couples.

You might be right, though. That is just the understanding I had.

Well that was an unnecessary way of phrasing it.

Well by defintion the child may call the gay couple looking after them dad(s) even though it would be a bit confusing. But it's generally my perspective that people who look after others are guardians, dad only applies if you're the biological father. Sure you got foster dad/adoptive dad, but it's just I didn't see the term dad as just a role to be played.


It's dumb just ignore this as they can call the gay couple individually dad.