Posted on 06/02/2014 9:28:28 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
A strong majority, 63 percent, of Americans now say that same-sex couples should have a legal right to adopt a child, according to a new Gallup poll. About one in three, 35 percent, are opposed.
The result is the opposite of 1992, when Gallup first polled the question. Sixty-three percent said homosexual couples should not be legally permitted to adopt in that year. In 1998, that number declined to 57 percent. In 2003 and 2007, Americans were about equally divided on the question.
The recent poll was the first time Gallup showed a clear majority supportive of giving same-sex couples the legal right to adopt a child.
The strongest support came from Democrats (80 percent), followed by independents (61 percent), then Republicans (51 percent).
Young people were more supportive than older people. Among ages 18 to 29, 77 percent answered that same-sex couples should have the right to adopt, followed by 65 percent for ages 30 to 49, 59 percent for ages 50 to 64 and 52 percent for those 65 and older.
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I don’t think your relatives are headed for Hades. How would I know that? But I also don’t think they should have been allowed to adopt children—not as a couple, certainly. I can tell horror stories of kids I have known who were deliberately deprived of a mother or a father so a gay couple could pretend to be their parents, but it’s not stories (horror or otherwise) that matter. It’s a way of being reared that Nature and Nature’s God designed for all of us, and it’s wrong to deprive children of it in the name of a social experiment.
It’s official: America is the new Sodom.
I think there's something called "sexual orientation dysphoria," which means being unhappy about your sexual orientation. That's considered the mental illness: being an unhappily gay. They want you to be happy.
Pedophilia, called in the DSM 'pedophilic disorder'" is still listed as a disorder. So far.No special separate classification for same-sex or other-sex.
If it follows the opinion polls before ‘gay marriage’ popular votes it would be around +5% or so for the poll in the favour of the homosexualist side when you look at the actual voting results. So maybe around 57-59% in favour if it was put to an actual vote. But it could also be that more are accepting of gay adoption than ‘gay marriage.’
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Why gosh, yes. Let them adopt and it will all be like some idyllic TV sitcom. /s
I have yet to see a kid raised by gay “parents” who isn’t a psychological ruin.
“Therein lies the problem with mating with somebody that it’s impossible to produce children with.”
Although it’s impossible they still won’t stop trying to fertilize feces!
God bless her for giving these Down's Syndrome kids a chance in life. People are not exactly lining up to adopt kids with Down's.
They are not, however, the norm and should not be legislated as the norm. Something like 80% of all heterosexual women and 70% of all heterosexual men are faithfully monogamous.
Amount homosexuals, these figures drop to around 6% for women and 3% for men. I'm glad your sil's aunt is in the 6% and has worthwhile things on her mind like giving Down's kids a real chance in life. She sounds like a giving unselfish person.
Most homosexuals priorities, however, are located well below the waist.
As Gertrude Stein said, homosexual men have to do drugs and alcohol to palliate their horrible acts. I’m convinced that most people have no idea what gay men do. But I lived through the 1970s in NYC and we all knew the kind of disgusting acts these people performed in private and in public. And sometimes I’m not even talking about sodomy.
RE: Pedophilia, called in the DSM ‘pedophilic disorder’” is still listed as a disorder. So far.No special separate classification for same-sex or other-sex.
So, Michael Jackson, who likes boys of the same sex isn’t ( how to put it ), considered gay?
Americans have collectively lost a grip on reality. Does no one care for the rights and safety of these children? It is almost time to close my eyes and just disappear.
Exactly: Jacko wouldn’t officially be considered homosexual or gay. Doesn’t make a whole lot of sense now, does it? I don’t even know if he’d be considered MSM, though he was a male who had sex with males.
I agree. Hollywood INTENTIONALLY minimizes and idealizes homosexual behavior at the same time.
If one were to show little school children what these freaks actually do in what their teachers tell them “privacy of their bedrooms,” I’d say many of them would be traumatized.
Children aren’t told about mouth gags, buggering, butt plugs, gerbils, mice, glass objects or any of the strange objects they use. Neither are they shown or told about all the terrible indiscriminate behavior they are accustomed to like ‘glory holes’, bathroom stall foot action, and the like.
These people are SICK. Mentally deficient and a danger to our children. The last thing I’d allow if it were up to me is a homosexual being allowed to raise an innocent child.
Welcome to the great and powerful Babylon, which no longer knows God and no longer knows His law/instruction, the Torah.
for some reason I believe this a manipulated poll - unless I live in another universe - I literally know of no one who would agree with this.
RE: I literally know of no one who would agree with this.
You must live in a very conservative place and your neighbors and friends are all conservatives.
Come to New York City and you’ll see the difference...
So those Downs babies would be better off in state-run orphanage. Got it.
That was a powerful post, Gaffer. Yes, I guess we need to be powerful to get stupid people to wake up.
Years ago, I went to see the American film version of La Cage Aux Folles - in a suburban cement bunker in NJ. It was enjoyable and the couple in that film were portrayed as harmless. There wasn’t even a kiss in the movie. The suburban ladies around me were giggling and going “Awwww!” during the sentimental moments. I couldn’t believe that they were buying this hokey presentation of homosexuality - and then I realized they had probably never met a gay man or read anything about their habits. That was 20 years ago and I don’t think anything has changed.
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