The big debate: Anti-gay adoption site
by Paul Schwalbach on Jun. 04, 2007, under Opinion, Special‘Why do people have to have toleration shoved down their collective throats?’
The story: In a column, Anne T. Denogean takes to task a Gilbert-based Internet service that helps match prospective adoptive parents to birth mothers. The company won’t work with same-sex couples who want to adopt.
Your take: Toleration’s a controversial concept for the Citizen’s online community, at least when it concerns homosexuals.
Several people argue that the issue isn’t homosexual rights but the right of a private business to operate as it pleases. (The Gilbert company is a for-profit limited liability corporation, not a charity or public agency.)
Rick M., who knows several gay couples who are raising children as part of a loving family, says, “I cannot honestly . . . say gay couples should not be able to adopt.”
But, he says, if the adoption agency chooses to discriminate, “the law should not be able to tell them otherwise.” Dave N. echoes that belief: “What’s wrong with having an adoption service that caters only to heterosexuals, or blacks, or Methodists, or fat people? The notion that everyone should have absolutely equal access to everything is moronic.”
That was one prong in the argument supporting the adoption agency. The other? Homosexuality is bad – “a cancer on normal, decent society” (David S.) that violates “the laws of God and nature” (Brian H.).
All of which made Mike W. wonder, “How can people be so intolerant of others?” and got Suncusser R. to ask, “Why is there no consistency in the conservative agenda? If you want to be left alone, why don’t you leave everyone else alone?”
Let’s let Jan C., a lesbian with an adopted special-needs child, have the last word: “I thank Goddess every day for the blessing of my son.”
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