Contents:
- THE MOST EFFECTIVE ARGUMENT AGAST GAY RIGHTS
- GAY RIGHTS, RELIG EEDOM, AND THE BATTLE OVER ADOPTN
- ADOPTN AGENCY SHOULD BE ABLE TO REJECT GAY UPL, TMP ADMISTRATN ARGU
- WHAT MAK A FAY? A CLOSER LOOK AT GAY ADOPTN
THE MOST EFFECTIVE ARGUMENT AGAST GAY RIGHTS
Ten reasons agast adoptn rights for homosexual upl. In the stcture of a homosexual "fay", that right of the child is methodilly and liberately nied.
A child a homosexual "fay" is therefore at a disadvantage om the very begng of his/her velopment. In a homosexual "fay" the benefs of proper velopment are liberately whheld om the child. If the child is tght, however, that a homosexual "fay" is a plete, albe alternative type of fay, this settg prevents the child om mourng the loss of the real father or mother.
• There are signifint differenc between the liftyl of homosexual and heterosexual upl. Statistilly speakg, the promiscuy of gay men livg together is much higher than a mon father-mother relatnship. • The vast majory of studi allegg an equaly between heterosexual and homosexual parenthood, have been found to be serly methodologilly flawed.
GAY RIGHTS, RELIG EEDOM, AND THE BATTLE OVER ADOPTN
Lbian and Gay Rights Project125 Broad StreetNew York, NY 10004(212) 549-2627. Conservative anizatns that claim to poe “tradnal fay valu” have promised to lnch a natnwi mpaign 1998 to enact state-level legislatn to prohib adoptn by lbians and gay men. The threats of anti-gay and anti-child legislatn have e rponse to the creased willgns of urts, policymakers and legislators to regnize that lbians and gay men n be good parents and should be evaluated on their parentg skills, rather than their sexual orientatn.
The recent settlement of an ACLU lawsu New Jersey, where the State agreed to allow lbian and gay upl to adopt unr the same standards applied to married upl, has creased the right wg’s foc on this issue. Anti-gay, anti-child adoptn legislatn n take several forms.
The most obv is a tegoril ban on any adoptn by lbians or gay men, eher as dividuals or as upl. Although all three approach are motivated by anti-gay bias, the send and third disguise a b and make the bate more plex. Bee nobody has the right to adopt, our opposn to anti-gay adoptn bills is not based on “gay rights” and we should not ame our arguments that way.
ADOPTN AGENCY SHOULD BE ABLE TO REJECT GAY UPL, TMP ADMISTRATN ARGU
And all the evince shows that lbians and gay men n and do make good parents. The issue is not “gay rights” or equaly. Nor is there any reason to make parisons between gay/lbian parents as a group vers heterosexual parents as a group.
WHAT MAK A FAY? A CLOSER LOOK AT GAY ADOPTN
Lbians and gay men n and do make good parents. Here are some straightforward rpons to the arguments of those who support anti-gay, anti-child adoptn bills.
Gays and lbians don’t have stable relatnships and don’t know how to be good parents. Like other adults this untry, the majory of lbians and gay men are stable mted relatnships.
All of the evince shows that lbians and gay men n and do make good parents. The Amerin Psychology Associatn, a recent report reviewg the rearch, observed that “not a sgle study has found children of gay or lbian parents to be disadvantaged any signifint rpect relative to children of heterosexual parents” and nclud that “home environments provid by gay and lbian parents are as likely as those provid by heterosexual parents to support and enable children’s psychosocial growth.