Obama says 'yes' to gay adoption

Yay!!

Yes, we do need to eliminate discrimination against LGBT families. We should focus on giving opportunities to the children, not taking them away.

He's proven countless times that he's actually perfectly sane and rational, so this doesn't surprise me.
Obama08'!!!

Now I know they will get him... Obama better watch his back.....Americans don't like gays...

It's going to be a good next 8 years. Finally, someone who actually cares about other peoples feelings.

I guess the question is, do kids raised by gay parents grow up to be gay?

How many have done this so far?

It would be interesting to talk to them.

I know single mothers don't exactly represent the ideal scenario either, but is this as fair to a kid as potentially having a "normal" family?

And by normal, I mean gay people always seem to be very nice and more intelligent than most, but since parents directly influence behavior as role models, what sex education are the gay parents going to give their children?

And by "normal", I mean having a mother and father in the male and female roles that are required to reproduce in nature.

Are they going to assume the child is straight, what morals and values will they teach it?

How do you tell your son how to view women if you view them as a gay man?

Well, it's probably better then all the loser single fathers out there, so in that case I guess it's not ideal for the kid but it's better than nothing.

What a weird story.

Two men and baby and they all sleep together in bed?

Very strange, but I guess it doesn't directly effect my life so I'll reserve judgment until I actually hear stories from people it's affected first hand.

If straight couples have taken countless opportunities to be horrible parents and raise serial killers, rapists, terrorists and vapid celebrities, why not give homosexual couples a chance?

What a nice guy. Too bad he does not allow muslim ladies invited to his speeches to sit in camera view. If this view on the issue become unpopular, he will flip-flop on it too. I think that Obama likes to talk about how great a guy he is and how bad his opponents are. So far Bill Clinton, Ralph Nader, and John McCain use racist speech against him, while all he is doing is trying to "fix" America. I will try to find some other nice touchy feely fluff stroies on Obama too. Why not?

nice! with all the children in this world without parents we shouldn't have silly restrictions!

Get ready for OBamination

This guy would sell his mother if he had too.

I got to admit I am wondering how the prospective parents would approach sexuality and if it would affect the kids somehow... but jeez, it's better than having to grow up in an orphanage.

Yeah, I'd be so happy if I was a little girl who dreamed of the day I would have a real Mother to do all the girl stuff with. Then, one day she arrived. And she had a fucking moustache, talked like a freak and had a big, yucky hairy teddy bear Father for me! Yeay! This will be great :) We can go shopping in the gay districts and buy leather thongs with spikes! Yeay! And we can go downtown for lunch and eat at a restaurant that has all gay patrons! And I will enjoy dinners at my house with my Mom and Dad and we will watch all gay movies with all their gay friends!
And when I start my period, I just know my "Mom" will be there for me to explain. And I will feel so comforted because she understands.
And one day, I will have a baby and my Mom will be there for me to hold my hand because she understands what I am going through. She can give me advice.

All because they are nice and make enough money to buy me :)

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How about we let the children decide if they want to live in that house.

That's pretty big considering how the conservatives will most likely pull out the "gay card" to rally for McCain.

Why don't they just have kids of their own?

... oh.

Obama you make me dearly wish I was of voting age.

As for everyone who's against gay adoption,

Why do you want more children to grow up never having a family?

Quite honestly, I don't imagine them being all too picky when it comes to staying in the orphanage for what could be forever.

From my point of View, this is horrible.

We should give opportunities to Children, but not THIS!

This is an opportunity for them to also become Gay, opportunities for them to have even less appreciation on the bases of the Family.

I'm on favor of everything in this world almost, unless it harms and includes other that have nothing to do with it.

Can the child even decide? "No, there is no Mommy, can I not go?"

The future of the World...

Ohh, My daddy is a boy, my other daddy is a boy, and they have me, a boy. Now, I guess I need to find a boy... But, how do we make another Boy? "Oh really? then where do I come from? So, why are daddy and daddy together If they can't have me? I HAVE LIVED A LIE!

Gay Parents, Gay Sons =

http://www.youtube.com/user/WilliamSledd

Now Mommy and Mommy have me, a Boy. I meet Ana but Mommy and other Mommy are jealous, it looks like a third girl is not so good!? I now want a Son, of, I need another woman than Mommy and Mommy 2? How did they came up with me? Oh, no ANOTHER LIE!!

There is no ignorance here, it is just people that lie to themselves.

Oh, and then maybe the Gay Parents will be proud enough to "protect and defend" their belief that I would like to see how they will explain the black kid how miserable his life was in Africa that he ended up in hands of White Same sex couples. Let's see how she deals with that and her Development as a person.

I don't see how this gay marriage and adoption are even a question. What makes people think they are above other people?

Perhaps the "Nature" and Ability to conceive THE Person in question?

There is a reason on why a Man has no vagina and penis. And the same reason applies for a woman with Vagina and Penis.

Even if you want to question it, it is Nature and that is the way it is, for a reason.

No one said anyone is above the other. They should be simply not eligible to adopt a person to whom they need to give an example. The example of Family values which they could not even do.

I think gay couples will, in the vast majority of cases, make better parents than the average. They will be scrutinised much more for a start, but there's no criteria for heterosexual couples to have a baby (sexually).

I am involved in a faimly that is in the foster care system, and has been for thirty years, some of these children are abused, unwanted, harmed in ways beyond belief. Most will never be adopted, because they are not a newborn baby, they are six or seven, with developmental disabilities. So we are supposed to put limits on who can help love and take care of them based on sexual orientation, come on. Sometimes "Nature" doesn't do a very good job, or is it natural selection weeding these children into a system that is saturated?
Gays can be good parents too. I've seen it.

I was raised by two women for the better part of my life. I do have a father but he never played an active role. I got taught sexual education just like anyone else. They gave me they usual boy/girl talk. They didn't assume I would be gay or anything.I learned to view women normally. I am not gay myself but my brother on the other hand came out to me when he was 15 and we are twins. I do believe it is something you are born with because we were raised the same way. I believe being raised in my family has made me a better person today. Thats my just my own experience. No gay parents do not drag their children to S&M leather shops and force their children to watch gay movies. Thats just ignorant.

I hope Obama sticks with this because my mother and her partner have a daughter together. If something were to happen to her biological mother we fear someone will take her away from our family. If my mother were able to adopt her we wouldn't have to worry.

A lot of the time, the gay parents are adopting kids with severe issues, kids that are harder to raise than average and yet they turn out fine. They are doing a harder job of parenting special needs kids and society does not even have the common decency to make sure these families have equal rights like other families. Now, tell me that is not wrong and unjust. These gay parents are good samaritans and all we talk about is that they are same-sex. Who cares? We have our prorities backwards.