"He and his husband..."

So, if I understand what you're saying, you would accept a gay couple adopting and raising a child if it happened twenty-some years from now and if one half of that couple was your son, but if it's my son, right now, you won't accept it.

Do you see a contradiction here Steve?

Is someone born as a homosexual or do they become that way for some reason?

Jude, I actually don't reallt care. It's the publicising that this is NORMAL that bugs me. It aint, because I'm obviously a bigot against fags.

kids don't need to see a man and a woman sleeping in the same bed to understand what a family is, they need to see adults interact; love, struggle, support, encourage, entertain, please, anger, miff, and even forgive one another.

kids learn how to interact in a family by example, but they don't learn who to be sexually attracted to by example, that much is obvious.

that you fail to notice how identical your "arguments" are to those offered against inter-racial marriage is pretty funny, IMO. (true, men and women from different races can reproduce, but that was also "wrong" at one time...)

there are plenty of people on earth who probably have no business at all **being parents, but i doubt many gay couples belong near the top of that list, considering how poorly so many hetero parents treat their kids, right? i mean, 6 billion people on earth = quite a few f*#ked up families out there...**

as far as people who so oppose gay rights, some are simply ignorant (have you ever actually known a gay person? a gay couple? a gay parent?), and others, MANY MANY others, are simply repressing their own feelings of attraction for the same sex, and they hate themselves for those feelings, so in turn they project the hate they feel toward themselves, outward, toward others...(edit, but of course, this sort of thing never happens among the devout followers of Jesus, because gay people and religious people are NEVER the same people, right?)