Poland to ban gays om adoptg, even as sgle parents | Rters

Contents:

• ARGUMENTS FOR AND AGAST GAY ADOPTN
• EUROPE: GAY ADOPTN RULG ADVANC FAY EQUALY
• POLAND TO BAN GAYS OM ADOPTG, EVEN AS SGLE PARENTS
• GAY ADOPTN: HOW MON IS GAY ADOPTN AND IS LEGAL?
• ‘THEY ARE NOT HAPPY WH HOW WE LOVE EACH OTHER’: GAY PARENTS FEAR A MELONI VICTORY.
• PROCR FOR GAY COUPL LOOKG TO ADOPT
• GERMANY STRENGTHENS GAY ADOPTN RIGHTS
• CAN GAY COUPL ADOPT? WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW

ARGUMENTS FOR AND AGAST GAY ADOPTN

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AGAINST 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.

EUROPE: GAY ADOPTN RULG ADVANC FAY EQUALY

Gay and heterosexual upl serve the same legal rights to adopt. Anythg ls is pure equaly based on homophobia. In some untri gay dividuals n adopt as sgle parents, but gay upl n’t.

POLAND TO BAN GAYS OM ADOPTG, EVEN AS SGLE PARENTS

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.

GAY ADOPTN: HOW MON IS GAY ADOPTN AND IS LEGAL?

Christian, Jewish and Islamic lears have all spoken out agast gay marriage. Children adopted by gay upl weren’t snatched om happy hetero fai.

The fay, gay or straight, is better than the alternativ. 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.

‘THEY ARE NOT HAPPY WH HOW WE LOVE EACH OTHER’: GAY PARENTS FEAR A MELONI VICTORY.

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. Liftg bans on gay marriage or gay adoptn are steps towards more diverse, more tolerant societi, where nobody fac discrimatn.

PROCR FOR GAY COUPL LOOKG TO ADOPT

“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.

GERMANY STRENGTHENS GAY ADOPTN RIGHTS

Jo our bate “Should all EU stat regnise gay adoptn? “This groundbreakg lg means ernments n’t e sexual orientatn to stop someone om adoptg a child, ” said Stt Long, director of the Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr Program at Human Rights Watch. France, the European Court of Human Rights had led, four vot to three, that preventg a gay man om applyg to adopt a child bee of his sexual orientatn did not vlate the nventn.

The urt has th tablished a precent that adoptn procr mt offer fair treatment not only to sgle parents, but to lbian and gay potential parents. While many European stat – om Spa to Hungary – have opened eher full civil marriage or some form of civil-unn stat to same-sex partners, some rtrict lbians and gays om adoptg children eher dividually or as upl. Denmark, Germany, and Norway perm one lbian or gay partner to adopt the other’s children.

Among others, Portugal and Italy keep gays and lbians om adoptg. Unr EU law, lbian, bisexual and gay people are currently protected om discrimatn on the ground of sexual orientatn only the field of employment.

CAN GAY COUPL ADOPT? WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW

As of 2022, six untri' legal s specifilly prcribe the ath penalty for the "crime" of homosexualy and another five untri allow for the possibily of the ath penalty. LGBT and LGBTQ+ have several addnal variatns, cludg LGBTQ, LGBTQIA, LGBTQIA+, and 2SLGBTQIA+ (Two-spir, lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, qutng, tersex, and asexual, wh the + reprentg pansexual, agenr, genr queer, bigenr, genr variant, and pangenr).

Two of the most notable advancements LGBTQI+ rights the US recent s are the legalizatn of gay marriage and the legalizatn of adoptn of children by same-sex upl.

Gay marriage legalizatn expand om one state 2004 to all fifty stat 2015 through feral urt lgs, state urt lgs, state legislatn, and direct popular vot. Acrdg to the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn's annual report State-Sponsored Homophobia, same-sex nduct was crimalized 67 of the Uned Natns' 193 member stat 2020 and was facto illegal two more.

In other untri, homosexualy is technilly legal, but promotn of "nontradnal sexual relatns", whether by anizatns or dividuals, is illegal. Moreover, another five untri have laws which are ls specific the outlawg and sentencg of homosexualy, but which leave the ath penalty available.