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I do not have problems with gay people; in fact two of my best friends are as gay as you can be. I also agree with you that you will roughly find the same percentage of bad parents (or "bad people") in homosexual and heterosexual couples. My point is that the discussion is rather academic, because if you study the adoption process in Australia you will see that homosexual couples have no chance at all. Overseas countries already receive more applications that they can handle from heterosexual couples. For example, Thailand closed its adoption program for a year just to clean up the backlog. Thus, the bottleneck for adoption is not the number of applicants but the number of public servants that will evaluate the application here and overseas. Therefore, they have the 'luxury' of discarding applications based on anything, and sexuality sounds as an easy option, particularly considering the culture of those countries. Now, should homosexual be in the same footing as heterosexuals? Yes, they should. On the other hand, given the complexity of issues involved in an adoption, would it be more difficult for a child to fit in an adoption because the parents are homosexual? I would say that the answer is yes, not because homosexuals are not good parents, but because of social pressure on the child. Given that the main consideration in an adoption is the benfit for the child, a social worker would probably prefer heterosexual parents (and I have talked to a few social workers on this issue). Is this "fair" on homosexual couples? Probably not, but adoption is not aimed to be fair or to reinforce a sense of equality for parents. My 2 cents.
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