Study: Gays are better parents

But you don't need to give advantage to one or another. Sexuality may not actually mean anything. There are already other factors being taken into account.

And no, the bigoted are very against same-sex adoption ever if it means the children may have to die or whatever. They don't actually care about a human being after his/her birth.

Not exactly, for instance a lesbian couple might have a child because one of them is raped.

Not exactly, for instance a lesbian couple might have a child because one of them is raped.

I don't think the issue is sexuality as such (i.e. what your parents are doing in their bedrooms).

The issue is whether or not it is beneficial to a child to have one parent of each gender. There are many possible configurations you could have (e.g. single male parent, single female parent, a straight couple, a gay couple, two opposite sex parents not in a relationship, two same sex parents not in a relationship, three parents, four parents etc.) and it would be a big assumption to think that they all work equally well. Maybe the genders of your parents makes no difference - but then again maybe it does. For adoption purposes it would be useful to know whether or not this is the case, and to what extent. All I'm saying is that such a study doesn't provide this information.

But at the same time you can never generalise. Not all men are going to behave the same; not all women are going to behave the same. With sexuality being thrown in the mix, one member of the couple may behave more like the other gender and thus offset this. There will need to be a very detailed study to even try to begin the conversation on this.

I've never heard anyone suggest that it would be better for a child to die than be adopted by two members of the same sex. But if they do exist, then I wonder if such people also think it would be better for a child to die than to be adopted by a same-sex, but not homosexual duo of parents - e.g. a straight man and another straight man, who are not in a relationship, adopting a child. If they are happy with that combination, then it seems their issue is not with the gender of the parents, but with the fact that their parents are homosexual.

In such cases, I'm guessing it wouldn't make a difference to them whether a set of homosexual parents are "good parents" or not according to a study like the one you've posted. Even if they're great parents according to all key indicators, I'm thinking they'd still fear that the child might learn approval of homosexuality at their hands and end up in Hell for it, or something like that.

True, but still, it can happen, to the contrary of a lot of people above saying that all gay couples want their children.

I'm not sure that in the western world that happens often enough to be relevant and/or feasible to be included in these studies.

They don't say that out loud obviously, but when you ban gay adoptions when there are children who are unadopted, what are you actually trying to do? To force straight people to adopt? Also, some tend to argue that gay adoptions would be worse than no adoptions:

I very much doubt most people really think of that. They just don't like the idea of people who disagree with their views existing, let alone having equal rights.

I wouldn't say it's too surprising. Gay people can't have children accidentally after all, so they're guaranteed to actually want them.

I don't see that the link you posted is a campaign to actually ban same-sex adoption. It just seems to be saying that it is in a child's interest to be adopted by a straight couple rather than a same-sex one.

You don't think religious views about homosexuality and its sinfulness come into it? I'm under the impression that this is one of the major reasons why many people disapprove of it.

It is, but I don't believe most religious people are really thinking of the 'welfare' of others so much that they feel they must restrict their rights.

If you're right, and they just want to restrict the rights of gay people just because they don't like them, I still don't see how such a study helps with that. It's not going to make them like gay people more, nor does it provide any counter evidence to their supposed cover stories (just trying to save kids from Hell, it is more conducive to parenting of the two parents are not the same sex).

It would be useful to cite if someone said "same-sex couples are so bad at parenting that it would be better for a child to be homeless than live life like that", and not just due to religion either - but I've never seen an example of that.

I wonder about the stat. . istics between homophobic and liberal parents?

Homophobes should be careful what they say to their kids.
If their teenage daughters are anything like mine, homophobes are in for a surprise. Whatever I say they dig their heels in and do the opposite.

It's difficult to find a non-religious person who's homophobic.

So then what exactly is the value of the study? To whom are you trying to make your point?

Not exactly, for instance a lesbian couple might have a child because one of them is raped.

The undecided, the people who have no specific view at the moment.

I wouldn't say it's too surprising. Gay people can't have children accidentally after all, so they're guaranteed to actually want them.

Even Straight People who dont want kids, are still perfectly capable of looking after kids from unexpected pregnancies.
Children are more important than Political Correctness for others

They are capable, but not always willing.