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Should gay couples have the same adoption rights as straight couples?

LGBT adoption is the adoption of children by lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) persons. This may be in the form of a joint adoption by a same-sex couple, adoption by one partner of a same-sex couple of the other’s biological child (step-child adoption) and adoption by a single LGBT person. Joint adoption by same-sex couples is legal in 25 countries. In September 2022 a federal district court ruled that the New York State government could not shut down a faith-based adoption provider which banned LGBT couples from using its adoption services. Opponents of LGBT adoption ques…  

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81%
Yes
19%
No
73%
Yes
15%
No
8%
Yes, as long as they pass the same background checks as straight couples
2%
No, and I believe a mother and father family structure is best for the child
1%
No, and adoption agencies should prioritize offering children to straight couples before offering to gay couples
0%
No, and gay couples should not be able to adopt children

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 @5BMY978from Minnesota answered…4yrs4Y

Yes, gay couples statistically have more stable families

 @58QP6N3from Illinois answered…4yrs4Y

No, adoption is not a right; it is a privilege

 @5923ZB4from Texas answered…4yrs4Y

I believe gays are people and God says to love all people. If they are able to care for the child in a better manner than the child's biological parents, then I say it would be good for the child to have someone who will love them.

 @gtbensa from Florida answered…4yrs4Y

Yes but religious adoption agencies should be able to reject them

 @59LDCB5from North Carolina answered…4yrs4Y

Yes, Research has shown that Gay couples make excellent parents.

 @5C2P87Qfrom Florida answered…4yrs4Y

What in the name. That's like telling a five year old to never go back to their mother, if they don't understand why you guys are both men or women and don't understand the production of human. Explain to them at least, if you don't see if and they are uncomfortable with the situation, please for your adopted son or daughter dress up like a men or women so they don't feel uncomfortable. Do it for them if they feel this way. I know this might be a terrible thing to ask of you guys.

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 @ISIDEWITH submitted…4mos4MO

Vatican Document Casts Gender Change and Fluidity as Threat to Human Dignity

The statement is likely to be embraced by conservatives and stir consternation among L.G.B.T.Q. advocates who fear it will be used as a cudgel against transgender people.The Vatican on Monday issued a new document approved by Pope Francis stating that the church believes that gender fluidity and transition surgery, as well as surrogacy, amount to affronts to human dignity.The sex a person is born with, the document argued, was an “irrevocable gift” from God and “any sex-change intervention, as a rule, risks threatening the unique dignity the person has received from the moment of conception.” People who desire “a personal self-determination, as gender theory prescribes,” risk conceding “to the age-old temptation to make oneself God.”The document also unequivocally states the Roman Catholic Church’s opposition to surrogacy, whether the woman carrying a baby “is coerced into it or chooses to subject herself to it freely” because the child “becomes a mere means subservient to the arbitrary gain or desire of others.”The document was intended as a broad statement of the church’s view on human dignity, which included the exploitation of the poor, migrants, women and vulnerable people. Though five years in the making, it comes just months after Pope Francis upset more conservative corners of his church by explicitly allowing L.G.B.T.Q. Catholics to receive blessings from priests and by allowing transgender people to be baptized and act as godparents.

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