APA Policy Statements on Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr Concerns

Contents:

• ARGUMENTS FOR AND AGAST GAY ADOPTN
• ADOPTNS BY GAY COUPL IS ETHIL
• POLICI ON LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR & QUEER (LGBTQ) ISSU
• GAY ADOPTN
• FOR GAY PARENTS, DECIDG BETWEEN ADOPTN AND SURROGACY RAIS TOUGH MORAL QUTNS
• RSIA ENACTS ANTI-GAY ADOPTN BAN
• RSIAN NSTUTN CHANGE ENDS HOP FOR GAY MARRIAGE
• NOT THE ONN: MOSW BANS GAY PRI FOR NEXT 100 YEARS
• GAY MARRIAGE: THEOLOGIL AND MORAL ARGUMENTS
• ADOPTN BY GAY AND LBIAN COUPL: POLICS & PARENTG

ARGUMENTS FOR AND AGAST GAY ADOPTN

In fact, most of the important moments the history of gay adoptn have only happened the last 40 the 1970s and 1980s (when the gay rights movement really began to take hold), homosexualy was somethg that was rarely discsed and even illegal some plac. Add to that the secrecy surroundg adoptn general, and you n see why gay adoptn history is srce until the send half of the 20th century.

It wasn’t until the civil rights era of the 1970s and 1980s that the history of gay adoptn and gay civil rights general really started to mark monumental events. As LGBT dividuals began to fight for their right to marry and have children, they also faced discrimatn om heterosexual and homosexual dividuals alike.

ADOPTNS BY GAY COUPL IS ETHIL

The first step towards equaly gay adoptn me as dividual stat passed laws to make homosexual marriage legal, wh Massachetts beg the first state to do so 2003. Supreme Court challengg laws agast gay marriage the entire Uned Stat.

It all changed March 2016, when a feral judge overturned the gay adoptn ban Mississippi.

POLICI ON LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR & QUEER (LGBTQ) ISSU

Whereas prr to 2016, there were stat where gay adoptn was illegal, now there are none. As long as you meet the state requirements to adopt, you n move forward wh your adoptn stat allow gay adoptn for dividuals, married upl and upl a domtic unn.

However, for unmarried upl who want to adopt a child (eher heterosexual or homosexual), ’s not always possible to do so jotly. In many of the stat where gay adoptn was illegal for so long, was bee requirements were based on maral stat, not sexual orientatn. While is unnstutnal for married same-sex upl to be nied the right to adopt by a state agency, unfortunately, there are several stat which have passed laws agast gay adoptn based on relig eedom.

This way, you n be rmed about your lol gay adoptn laws and any laws agast gay adoptn that might apply to your suatn.

GAY ADOPTN

Civilized societi do not discrimate on grounds of race, creed, genr or sexualy, yet the nial of equal rights to gay upl is clear discrimatn. Gay and heterosexual upl serve the same legal rights to adopt. In some untri gay dividuals n adopt as sgle parents, but gay upl n’t.

Gay adoptn is clearly an issue that is bt cid on a untry-by-untry basis, whout shg cizens more tradnal societi. There is ample evince to show that gay upl n be jt as good at parentg as straight upl. In fact, some believe homosexual upl on average tend to be better motivated and more mted than heterosexual parents, bee they always chose to have children – unlike the around 50 percent of straight uple who stumble to parenthood by accint.

Many gay upl form relatnships that are more stable than many heterosexual marriag givg adopted children a secure, emotnally stable home. Gay parentg ns fundamentally unter to many people’s relig views. Christian, Jewish and Islamic lears have all spoken out agast gay marriage.

FOR GAY PARENTS, DECIDG BETWEEN ADOPTN AND SURROGACY RAIS TOUGH MORAL QUTNS

Children adopted by gay upl weren’t snatched om happy hetero fai. Given the shortage of suable straight upl, gay adoptn n provi kids the lovg hom they need.

There are now around 65, 000 children who have found hom thanks to gay adoptn legislatn the Uned Stat. Yet we have to rpect the mocratic cisn of people who vote for policians and ernments that oppose gay adoptn. Children raised by gay upl may have different outlooks – surveys the US have shown they grow up more tolerant and open-md.

RSIA ENACTS ANTI-GAY ADOPTN BAN

Liftg bans on gay marriage or gay adoptn are steps towards more diverse, more tolerant societi, where nobody fac discrimatn. “Now we’re on the right si of history, ” said Portugue gay rights mpaigner Isabel Advirta, after parliament approved the gay adoptn law December.

It’s already happeng: Catholic agenci Bra and the Uned Stat have shut shop the wake of laws that would have obliged them to send children to gay upl.

One of thgs that has ed ntroversy over the years has been “Gay Marriage”. In the uned Stat, 1 3 stat allow same-sex marriage but Homosexual upl married those stat are still facg obstacl when to beg parents through adoptn.

RSIAN NSTUTN CHANGE ENDS HOP FOR GAY MARRIAGE

Adoptns by gay upl Is ethil bee they have the right to be emed and nsired as a lovg fay Jt like any other fay.

NOT THE ONN: MOSW BANS GAY PRI FOR NEXT 100 YEARS

Homosexual upl, certaly those offerg themselv as adoptive parents, form relatnships that many argue are more stable adoptn legal will allow to help the children and there Is a huge shortage of adoptive parents here the US.

The “fay”, whether gay or straight, Is better than the foster-re system. ” The Week Onle Article stat “In an era when many children are raised by sgle parents, barrg gay men and lbians om beg parents is discrimatn, based on sexual orientatn”. The fact Is that Homosexual parents n provi lovg hom and raise well-balanced children to adulthood.

Each Walls who has been raised by two mothers and Is a voice/activist for gay marriage legislature stated “l thk every child serv a fay as lovg and mted as me. On the other hand, some argue that Gay Adoptn Is uhil bee a child should always be raised by a man and a woman of a “tradnal marriage” hoehold. Homosexual parent hoeholds affects children’s velopment major when they see their iends’ parents are different om his/her own parents.

GAY MARRIAGE: THEOLOGIL AND MORAL ARGUMENTS

Acrdg to Robert Lopez, whom has voiced agast Gay Parents and who grew on a lbian marriage hoehold stated “My home life was not tradnal nor nventnal. Others argue that if nature wanted homosexual upl to have kids, they would have been able to reproduce between them therefore makg the kd of legislatns “Unnatural, or agast nature” givg the absolute versn of “Natural LaW’ supportg a teleologil moraly view. Homosexual people have the lack of acceptance and is morally wrong to be gay relig lears say.

Also, the Bible the Old Ttament clearly stat that the act of homosexualy is “Abomatn” Levic 20:13.

ADOPTN BY GAY AND LBIAN COUPL: POLICS & PARENTG

Children raised by gay parents are offered only one partnership mol and are therefore more likely to be gay.