Should homosexual couples be allowed to adopt children? (Poll)

[Cannikin]

Current numbers:

Yes 24.48% (2362)
No 75.52% (7286)


Total Votes: 9648

http://www.traditionalvalues.org/modules.php?name=Surveys&pollID=20

[eyesroll]

1. Where's this poll?

For the record, my answer is YES.

[kanrok]

2. Why the hell not?

There are TONS of kids that need a loving family. Geez.

[arewethereyet]

11. but they are "special needs" and noone wants them

or they are minority and there is a prejudice against cross ethnic adoptions.

blonde haired, blue eyed kids go like hotcakes.

[Kathy in Cambridge]

3. My answer is Yes-there are tons of gay couples with kids here in Cambridge

Where's the poll?

[Pithlet]

4. The link says traditional values.

My vote is, of core, yes. But a site with a name like that, it isn't too surprising that the numbers look like that.

[Cannikin]

5. We've had a major effect on some of their other polls...

Would you vote for a presidential candidate who supports same-sex marriage or civil unions?

Yes 57.15% (20829)
No 42.85% (15620)


Total Votes: 36449




We were behind on this one just a few hours ago.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

6. Yes.

If they can afford to support children, and really want them, why not? There are too many orphans in the world who would really love a home.

BTW I'm for gay marriage as well.

[mike1963]

7. Kick, still 75% no, 25 yes

:kick:

[lastknowngood]

8. are you kidding

they're already breeding like rabbits. <sarcasm off>

[Pontus]

16. Can't lesbian couples just get artificial insemination?

If you have two healthy women you have two potential mothers. I see no reason they shouldn't just go that route.

[LeahMira]

21. Seems to me...

Can't lesbian couples just get artificial insemination?

Seems to me that when there are thousands of children in foster care and waiting for a permanent home, it's pretty selfish for any couple who wants a child but can't have one the usual way to go out and spend a pile of money and endure some discomfort (the insemination process) just to bring yet another child into the world.

[blondeatlast]

25. Well put. I think it makes a good match, adults who have been

rejected will be able to raise "rejected" children in an environment of respect and acceptance; and be able to deal with the difficulties the child will face that much better.

[blondeatlast]

24. What's the difference? I'd rather see unwanted children find homes.

These are the same types who want to force every woman to carry a child to term; where are we supposed to put the unwanted ones once they are born?

[silverlib]

9. I voted, yes, but

the margin seems to be worsening just a little.

[Lostmessage]

10. I would prefer to have a family

Than sit in an orphanage and people need to start asking kids that question.

[Occulus]

17. I would prefer

that parents who give their children up for adoption also agree that that child be made aware of their adoption from the time they are sociall cognizant (sp?) and have the names and addresses of their biological parents available for pursuit at any time after the age of twelve.

I would also support a law that would make the hiding of the fact from the child that the child is adopted a felony, with prison time of not less than five years.

As an adopted child, I cannot begin to describe the feelings of abandonment, loss, and bitter, bitter disappointment in my adoptive parents. They completely destroyed me in every way possible, and given the fact that I know both my biological parents were musically talented and my adoptive parents weren't and moreover just simply didn't care about my talents at all, well, I think adopted kids definitely deserve to know where they came from.

I have nothing at all against parents who wish to adopt a child. I DO have a great deal against parents who wish to adopt and then decide that that child should be a little carbon copy of them.

My adoptive parents booted me out of their house because they found out I was gay. At nineteen, with nothing saved and nowhere else to go, this was nearly a deathblow to me.

I think there may be something wrong with the whole concept of adoption. I think, maybe, parents giving their children up for adoption should be required by law to reinitiate contact at a predetermined age, and that the adoptive parents should be required by law to reveal the fact at a predetermined age, AND reinitiate contact between the biological parents and the adopted child.

I think it's a crime that borders upon emotional abuse that some adoptive parents choose to hide the adoption fact from their child. While this is not common these days, I myself am a product of shame. My own biological parents gave me up, very likely to my detriment, and disappeared.

Get me right- I HATE my "parents". Both of them. They emotionally abused, rejected, and then abandoned me repeatledly, both emotionally and physically, the whole time I was growing up. I can't help but think I would have been much better off had a couple that actually wanted a child, rather than a toy or a potential carbon copy, had raised me.

Let me put it simply: I think I would have been much better off with two dads who HAD to prove they're fit parents than I was with two heterosexual parents, one of whom was frequently 'gone on business', who very literally rejected and abandoned me.

Not to mention that finding composing music (written, note-by-note, scored ensemble music) at thirteen was, apparently, nothing special.

So yes- I do think gay men and women would make excellent parents, simply because they have so much more, socially, to prove.

I really, really wish my adoptive parents had never, ever entered my life. I would be much better off as a result.

[blondeatlast]

26. Exactly! Let's ask the kids . . .

[Lostmessage]

12. I had a friend who grew up in an orphanage

I don't think that she would have minded what their sexual preference was as long as she would have been adopted into a loving home.

[mykpart]

13. Why not?

Joan Crawford was allowed to adopt children.

[Lostmessage]

36. Ohhhh

Your bad real bad. LOL

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

14. Should straight couples? 97% of all sex crimes are committed

by heteros.

[Pontus]

15. Can you back that up with a study?

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

34. It's in Kinsey's research

[blondeatlast]

27. Don't complicate matters with FACTS, NSMA!

Damn you!

:hi:

[MisterC2003]

18. yes, but ...

I vote yes.

But here's what's a gonna happen. Sooner or later a pair of gay peddoes will get through the screening process (they'll be so MOTIVATED, y'know) and get themselves a couple of kids over whom they have parental authority to use as sex toys for life. (I know, I know, most gays aren't peddoes and straight peddoes can do the same thing and undoubtedly have done the same thing) and the whore media will get their hands on the story and spin it for all they're worth. Won't be pretty.

[sweetheart]

19. in a world with a shortage of love

potential loving parents are denied rights to adopt children.

These republicans are the antithesis of compassionate.

It is a sorry thing.... i hope the pink dollar and vote converts this government after this grave error in judgement.

[Cannikin]

20. Not much movement..

Yes 25.34% (2476)
No 74.66% (7294)


Total Votes: 9770

[sweetheart]

30. sweetie, its just a poll on a conservative website

my little vote was part of not much... That said, we're frikking talking about 1/4th or 60 million people were we to presume the poll accurate to the US population.

THat means that the entire population of the UK is pro-gay marriage and adoption. These conservatives have a bad habit of presuming a minority has no rights... perhaps that minority should just cecede.

Given a vote, not a poll, i'm sure the number is twice that, and we could take say 12 states and form the pink states of america. It would be a brilliant country....

Geesh, without the gay population, the small sputtering economy the US does have would crap out damn fast. The military would lose its best and brightest and geesh... goddammit!!!

[blondeatlast]

22. Every child needs a parent. Too many are denied for petty reasons.

OTOH, I'm really skeptical about in-vitro for ANYONE, straight or gay.

But then, I'm blessed that I had a child the old-fashioned way, and I know it is very painful for those who want to have a child and can't.

[blondeatlast]

23. PUKE ALERT: DO NOTenter the "Homosexual Urban Legends"

banner.

If they ADMIT they are urban legends, :wtf:?

These types try very hard to make me ashamed to be a Christian, but I won't let them succeed.

[baldguy]

28. Should insane RW fundie xians be allowed to adopt children?

I'd be more comfortable giving the responsability to a gay couple. Teaching hate is child abuse.

[buddhamama]

29. i voted yes

a loving home is a loving home.

[AVID]

31. Cool Site for balancing the Perspective

Share a diverse view point by occasionally visiting this site and voting based on fundamental principles of human decency and not a fear of Hell, Satan, 666, the Apocalypse, Revelation's, AIDS, your pew mates view of you, or George Bush . . . well, maybe a little fear of GB is good for the soul.

[RandomKoolzip]

32. Of course.

Why, is there somebody saying that they shouldn't?


Oh...I guess there is. Silly me, I thought all humans were entitled to civil rights.

[soup]

33. Florida, Mississippi and Utah

all ban same-sex couples from adopting.

I don't know about Mississippi or Utah, but Florida, by some twisted logic, DOES accept same-sex couples as foster parents.

Someone tell me, please - What freaking sense does this make?!

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If this family's story doesn't tear at your heart, you probably don't have one-

>snip<
No gay people in Florida can adopt children—period. Frank, Tracy, and Bert have never known any other family. They came home to Steve and Roger when they were infants. All of their memories—first days of school, 5th birthdays, first vacations to California—are with Steve and Roger and each other.

But because of Florida's ban on gay adoption, they have no guarantees. The state is now actively looking for another adoptive family for Bert—starting the process of taking him from the family he's been part of since he was nine weeks old. Meanwhile, 3,400 kids in Florida are ready to be adopted, waiting in foster care. The state's gay adoption ban helps keep them there.

It's time for this to stop. Spend some time on this web site. Get to know the Lofton-Croteau Family. Learn more about the lawsuit against Florida's ban. Find out what Rosie O'Donnell has to say about all of it. Look at the broader context of the trouble with all gay parenting restrictions. And then write directly to those responsible for Florida's law.

Tell them Bert needs to stay—and Florida's law needs to go.
http://www.lethimstay.com/index.html

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The latest update on the website is on 7/21/03. I'm almost afraid to ask - is there any news on the appeal?

[Iris]

35. check out this one on the "marriage ammendment"

http://www.traditionalvalues.org/modules.php?name=Surveys&pollID=52

Do you support passage of the Federal Marriage Amendment?
Yes 37.14% (2402)
No 62.86% (4065)

[TreasonousBastard]

37. Still running about the same.

Curiously, the homophobe vote didn't overwhelm the question of whether or not you're OK with a pro gay marriage President.

Anyway, for more info on these people:

http://www.pfaw.org/pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid=8992

Yet another in-your-face-we-know-what-God-wants fundie site. Overly homophobic, but nothing as illiterate and nutty as Phelps.

Which makes them more dangerous.

[MrSlayer]

38. Up to 26% Yes.

What can you expect from a website like that really?

[Cannikin]

39. True...

Should homosexual couples be allowed to adopt children?

Yes 28.52% (2921)
No 71.48% (7321)


Total Votes: 10242

[Misinformed01]

40. Yes. My God,

why is this even a question????

(I realize that this is not the question of a poster on DU, and rather an internet poll...so, my question is rhetorical.)

[Cannikin]

41. I cant believe Arkansas allows it and Florida doesnt.

Yes 28.58% (2929)
No 71.42% (7321)


Total Votes: 10250