'We're not hidg': Gay and lbian Rsians say a cultural shift is unrway

Contents:

• ADOPTN AGENCY SHOULD BE ABLE TO REJECT GAY UPL, TMP ADMISTRATN ARGU
• 'WE'RE NOT HIDG': GAY AND LBIAN RSIANS SAY A CULTURAL SHIFT IS UNRWAY
• ADOPTED CHILDREN REMOVED FROM GAY DADS IN RSIA
• THE GAY ADOPTN CONTROVERSY
• RSIA ENACTS ANTI-GAY ADOPTN BAN

ADOPTN AGENCY SHOULD BE ABLE TO REJECT GAY UPL, TMP ADMISTRATN ARGU

""We do not doubt that this tert is a weighty one, for '[o]ur society has e to the regnn that gay persons and gay upl nnot be treated as social outsts or as ferr digny and worth, '" Roberts wrote, quotg the 2018 se Masterpiece Cakhop v. ”The latter argument c a recent Supreme Court se which the ernment tervened on behalf of baker Jack Phillips who refed to bake a weddg ke for a gay uple due to his relig beliefs.

The anizatn argued that to provi the servic to gay upl vlated s nstutnal rights to ee relig exercise and ee speech.

Over 21 percent of gay upl are raisg adopted children, pared wh 3 percent of straight upl, and nearly 3 percent of gay upl have foster children, pared wh 0. Are the out for children of gay, lbian, or bisexual parents general the same as those for heterosexual parents? Relatnship stabily appears to be higher among gay and lbian parent upl and may be a key mediatg factor fluencg out for children.

'WE'RE NOT HIDG': GAY AND LBIAN RSIANS SAY A CULTURAL SHIFT IS UNRWAY

There remas a need for high-qualy rearch on same-sex fai, pecially fai wh gay fathers and wh lower e. [Homosexual parenthood and child velopment: prent data]. Parent adjtment over time gay, lbian, and heterosexual parent fai adoptg om foster re.

Stigma Experienc, Mental Health, Perceived Parentg Competence, and Parent-Child Relatnships Among Lbian, Gay, and Heterosexual Adoptive Parents the Uned Stat. Although gay upl’ legal right to marry has been settled, their right to adopt has not been.

While there are no barriers to gay adoptn several stat, other jurisdictns put up var legal obstacl.

ADOPTED CHILDREN REMOVED FROM GAY DADS IN RSIA

Mississippi and Utah prent the most severe barrier; both stat adoptns by homosexuals are illegal. The prciple opposn to gay adoptn is that children are entled to their blogil parents who are of the oppose sex.

But the major groups ncerned wh children’s health do no oppose gay adoptns bee evince pots cisively that beg raised by same sex upl is not trimental to a child’s well beg. (The assertn that anizatns such a the Amerin Amy of Child and Adolcent Psychiatry, the Amerin Medil Associatn and the Natnal Associatn of Social Workers are eher timidated by or are the thralls of the “gay agenda” is spur. Incintally, the arguments raised agast gay upl adoptg are the same as those prented agast trans-racial adoptns.

Children may suffer fai for many reasons but beg raised by a gay dividual or uple is not, and of self, one of them. Generally, though, love, re, stabily, nurturance and rpect are enough for a succsful upbrgg, regardls of whether is provid by those blogil nnected, heterosexual or homosexual upl or sgle parents.

THE GAY ADOPTN CONTROVERSY

A school district southern California will be fed more than $1m after rejectg a curriculum that clud Harvey Milk, the pneerg gay rights lear who the the school board’s print has lled a “pedophile” Newsom, the California ernor, announced on Wednday that his office will send textbooks to the Temecula school district that clu Milk, the first openly gay man to be elected to public office the state, as well as fe the district $1. ”The ment repeats a nspiracy theory that falsely acc gay people of moltg children at higher rat than heterosexual people. ”This week the board saw a marathon ne-hour meetg which some parents voiced support for the nservative officials, scribg Newsom as a tyrant and a teacher was removed after llg a nservative board member a “homophobe”.

At the meetg, Danny Gonzalez, a nservative board member, said he did not support teachg stunts about the gay liberatn movement and that the curriculum would promote pedophilia, the Los Angel Tim reported.

RSIA ENACTS ANTI-GAY ADOPTN BAN

In the 1970s and 1980s, foster re agenci placed children the hom of gay and lbian upl — spe popular opposn and legal mandat to the ntrary — bee they believed dog so was the bt terts of the children. Between 1986 and 1992, the number of children foster re creased by 54 workers, who had been stgglg to fd hom for children, began placg their wards the hom of gay and lbian parents. The placements spurred ntroversy, particularly sce surveys showed that the vast majory of Amerins disapproved of gay and lbian people servg as foster parents.

At the time, many Amerins nsired LGBTQ rights a threat to their valu and opposed gay and lbian adoptn as harmful to 1985, after the Boston Globe reported that two young boys had been placed wh a gay uple, Massachetts Gov.