Battle Already Lost

8:54 pm EST December 1st, 2008 | News | 5 Comments

That conservatives are still arguing with themselves about whether gay people should be allowed to adopt kind of tells me that they’ve already lost on the question at hand. Why is there even a movement where this up for debate? Children need loving homes, and the best thing is to send them into one. There are gay couples who would be far better parents to a child needing a home than straight ones. If they’re good people, what does it matter?

Then again, many conservatives don’t think that people unlike them can be good people in the first place.

So, there’s that. I had the tiniest glimmer of hope that this election would knock the right off their morally superior high horses, but the evidence of that has been nonexistent.

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5 Responses to “Battle Already Lost”

  1. Jane says:
    December 1, 2008 at 9:31 pm

    I think you misunderstood the blog post you referenced. The question was not whether gay people should be allowed to adopt but whether the GOP should stop opposing gay adoption. There is a (albeit slight) difference. I am a Republican and I am in strong favor of children being adopted into loving homes, regardless the sexual orientation of the adoptive parents. Could anyone really argue that foster care is preferable? It is shameful that my colleagues on the right have not all grasped this yet, but many of us are quite logical reasonable people. Thanks for bringing this discussion up!
    Jane

  2. SpiderJ says:
    December 1, 2008 at 9:48 pm

    People who fight against the right of gay people to adopt should (a) have adopted several kids themselves, (b) fought hard for comprehensive sex education to prevent unwanted pregnancies, and (c) worked to keep abortion legal, so as to keep more unwanted pregnancies from becoming unwanted children.

    Then, and only then, do they have even the tiniest leg to stand on in this argument.

    And even with all of that, they’d still be wrong.

  3. merl says:
    December 2, 2008 at 4:19 am

    I’ve heard the dumbass comment that they would raise gay kids.
    But it’s straight people now who raise gay kids, right?

  4. Syco says:
    December 2, 2008 at 9:12 am

    my mom who works is Adoptions and Foster in NC hates this idea. There already aren’t enough parents who are willing.

  5. Robert says:
    December 2, 2008 at 6:48 pm

    My husband and I have two adopted sons. If either of them turns out gay (highly unlikely in at least one case), it won’t be due to anything we’ve done.

    Personal suspicion? What really bugs those people isn’t that the kids might turn out gay, but that they’ll almost certainly turn out thinking that gay people aren’t so bad.