http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=49434
"...Quoting the Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute as advising adoption agencies to energetically recruit homosexuals and lesbians, the report gives the impression America's adoption industry has turned clearly in the direction of not only accepting, but strongly promoting, homosexual adoption.
"Laws and policies that preclude adoption by gay or lesbian parents disadvantage the tens of thousands of children mired in the foster care system who need permanent, loving homes," the adoption organization said...
The author of the study, notes [Richard J.] Pearcey, is identified in the story only as "Illinois State University adoption expert Jeanne Howard." And although AP does report that the study was "funded by the Gill Foundation and the Human Rights Campaign," both actively involved in promoting the "gay rights" agenda, the report, writes Pearcey, "does not inform readers that Jeanne Howard is passionately involved in promoting acceptance of homosexuals in her work with P-FLAG (Parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays)."
"Homosexual activists' handprints are all over this one," adds Robert Knight, director of the Culture & Family Institute, part of Concerned Women for America. "Take it with a grain of salt. They funded it and will no doubt promote it, hoping the public will be too distracted to check its pedigree." -WorldNetDaily 27 Mar 2006
I must admit it takes the wisdom of Solomon to know how to make great choices for children whose lives have already been traumatized by the loss of biological parenting. It seems so easy to say, "why not allow men and women who want to have kids but are gay give them a good home." We must remember these are human beings that will grow up to be the hope of the world in the next generation, not stray puppies about to be euthanized. We have to think past what seems best for their lives at this very moment. It might seem wonderful for some of these boys and girls to have two mommies or two daddies instead of none. But what happens when those two daddies or mommies find other partners, as so often happens in gay relationships. What about the ongoing residual problems of alcohol abuse, drug abuse, depression, suicide, sexually tranmitted disease, and lately, partner abuse that keep cropping up in same-sex relationships at an alarming rate. These already traumatized children will be negatively impacted again and again. We are just now beginning to see the side effects of adoption as a whole with the number of children who are desperate for answers and healing for their "birth wound" of abandonment by their biological parents. What can we expect in the future when some of these children will have been 'abandoned' by one or more sets of adopted parents as well as their biological ones. Same sex parenting is a relatively new idea and I for one do not approve of letting the most vulnerable, our nations children, be the guinea pigs for that potentially destructive environment. I have no doubt that their are wonderful men and women who happen to be gay who have the ability to love and raise children.. just as I have no doubt there are heterosexual men and women who have little to offer as parents. Sadly at present we do not have a system in place for determining which is which. Our children are a very precious national treasure and instead of making them the political currency of popular ideals we should all be willing to make sacrificies to insure that they will have the best upbringing possible. - Nancy Stanfield Brown
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