Should gay couples have the same adoption rights as straight couples?
Yes, as long as they pass the same background checks as straight couples
The conversation involves a heated debate on LGBTQ adoption rights, contrasting views on morality, and the impact of parental sexual orientation on child upbringing.
@9GKGSYD2yrs2Y
Top Agreement
Having any sort of discriminatory checks, infringes on civil liberties. By preventing access to adoption to LGBTQ couples, you are not only preemptively snuffing out a possible happy family, but also leaving children stuck in an already traumatizing experience. Some of whom will never escape from.
@9GKVKNBIndependent2yrs2Y
I fully agree, people claim that they don't kids adopted by a queer couple because "kids need a mom and a dad to develop all the skills they need" but there are many single mothers or fathers who raise their kids well by themselves, and a queer couple can do that as well. Others claim that it's "indoctrinating the children and/or brainwashing them to be gay" while taking their child to church every Sunday, putting them in Vacation Bible School every summer, and sometimes even sending them to Christian schools where they only learn things from the bible and learn that anyone who doesn't believe is going to be burned and tortured in hell for all eternity. Someone is indoctrinating children and it isn't the ones trying to get them out of an orphanage or the foster care system.
@Patriot-#1776Constitution7mos7MO
I don't think single mothers and fathers should be allowed to adopt either – I would hope most conservatives agree – so there's no contradiction there. But that's not even our primary argument. Our primary argument is that normal, moral people are attracted to the opposite sex, and that alone, and they marry an individual from there to stay with for life. If you're not that way, you're a pervert. Children should not be raised by perverts. Why is this so hard for people to understand? This isn't about the "rights" (so-called) of "LGBTQ"s to adopt, it is fundamentally a conversation about the God-given rights of the child to be raised in a functional home.
“Our primary argument is that normal, moral people are attracted to the opposite sex, and that alone, and they marry an individual from there to stay with for life. If you're not that way, you're a pervert. Children should not be raised by perverts.”
If your logic is that only "normal, moral people" are attracted to the opposite sex and anyone outside that is a pervert, then we have to look at the history of abuse and scandals. Just because someone is straight doesn’t mean they’re automatically moral. In fact, some of the most high-profile abuse cases in the church, for example, involve heterosexual men. Should we deny them the right to adopt too, just because they’re straight?
The truth is, morality isn’t about who you’re attracted to; it's about your character and actions. So, if we’r… Read more
@Patriot-#1776Constitution7mos7MO
Just because someone is straight doesn’t mean they’re automatically moral.
I agree with you! Every conservative agrees with you! I never tried to make the point that just because you're normal, you're moral. Never once. The point I was trying to make is that it is normal and healthy to be attracted to the opposite gender, and that one alone, and that that is God's design for human families, and people for whom that is not the case are perverted in that sense. Yes, if there are any "straight" people who would abuse or mistreat a kid, I agree they shouldn… Read more
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