<p>I have a question, when does everyone think it will be made so a LGBT individual can adopt? Florida is currently the ONLY state out of all 50 that a individual gay person can't adopt a child.</p>
<p>It's kinda sad, how can California legalize gay marriage yet Florida won't even let a willing parent adopt?</p>
<p>Pacific States are way more open than some of the southeastern states.</p>
<p>I'd say sometime in the next 10 years. Big gap, I know, but once we get Iraq and the economy settled, we're going to start focusing heavily on social issues especially if a Democrat is elected to the presidency. One of the biggest social issues facing us right now is LGBT rights and I think that especially with generation X starting to rise to political power, we're going to become more liberal on social issues. </p>
<p>I think that was coherent?</p>
<p>And you're right it is sad. I think it's pathetic that conservatives would rather have children in unloving group homes with hundreds of other unwanted children rather than in loving homes with <em>gasp</em> gay parents. Seriously, that's twisted.</p>
<p>I saw a gay couple with a kid at Pride, and I thought it was absolutely adorable. </p>
<p>I don't really understand why gay adoption is such a big issue. I agree with romangypsyeyes in that it's weird how people think kids would be happier in a foster house instead of with two loving gay parents. As long as there are adults who are willing to love the child and raise the child to be a good citizen and a good person, any parent should do.</p>
<p>I also baffles me that any 15 year old girl could become a mom by a possible "mistake," and that loving, consenting gay adults can't adopt a kid</p>
<p>while i don't support gay marriage, i think they gay couples should be allowed to adopt children. if a couple that lives in a trailer park, husband is an alcoholic and beats his wife, and his wife has addiction problems of her own, can adopt, a gay couple should be allowed to.</p>
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that's kinda nature, not really something we can control.</p>
<p>I think gay rights is inevitable. I remember seeing a stat that said over 50% of younger people (don't remember the exact age group) support gay marriage. It's a generational issue really. Once people from our generation come to power politically and the baby boomer generation goes out, gay rights will be acknowleged. And I'm really not surprised about Florida because they do have one of the oldest (therefore one of the most socially regressive) populations.</p>
<p>^ That is so true. Our generation will make a difference.</p>
<p>I agree with alot of Old people in Florida.</p>
<p>You'll see a two gay men walking down the beach and the old people are just baffled by it. They roll there eyes complain, it's so pathetic. </p>
<p>Diesel "that's kinda nature, not really something we can control."</p>
<p>Oh I forgot, your legs open like nature? Being gay is not something you can control. Having sex and making bad decisions is a choice. Sheesh.</p>
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I think gay rights is inevitable. I remember seeing a stat that said over 50% of younger people (don't remember the exact age group) support gay marriage. It's a generational issue really. Once people from our generation come to power politically and the baby boomer generation goes out, gay rights will be acknowleged. And I'm really not surprised about Florida because they do have one of the oldest (therefore one of the most socially regressive) populations.
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<p>True. Considering the ages of most politicians, it's sad that usually the policies enforced (with respect to social issues) tend to be behind the times.</p>
<p>gay gay gay gay gay gay gay gay gay</p>
<p>geeez!! i see gay threads everywhere!!</p>
<p>^ wow. that was mature...</p>
<p>Lol inveniam, I didn't think they meant it in a offensive way, although it may come off that way.</p>
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Oh I forgot, your legs open like nature? Being gay is not something you can control. Having sex and making bad decisions is a choice. Sheesh.
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<p>yes, nature made it so that you can have children after you start menstruating. it's our social norms that have made it(being having children at a young age) something that is looked down upon...</p>
<p>Florida may be the only one vocalizing it, but plenty of other states lag in LGBT adoption rights. My gay aunt isn't the legal guardian of the kid her partner had through artificial insemination. Which isn't exactly the same thing as adoption, but the prejudice is the same. She and her partner have been together nearly my entire life, and they have a second child on the way (my aunt was going to have the second one, but they wanted the kids to be biologically related and the original sperm donor was lost in Katrina). Yet, she can't sign off on her kid's school forms? And if her partner died, she wouldn't get the kids automatically. They're a family, as domestic and sit-down Southern supper as mine, being treated like irresponsible, non-committed heathens. </p>
<p>Rant over, and back to the question: Yes, I do think there will be rights granted eventually. But in a country as ideologically diverse as ours, it will take a while before people actually support and practice those laws. (My aunts were turned down by quite a few Southern doctors when looking to be artificially inseminated even though it's against the law).</p>
<p>"Having sex and making bad decisions is a choice."</p>
<p>not always.</p>
<p>Having sex is a choice? Yes, always, unless its rape.</p>
<p>Bad decisions? 99.99% of the time it is a choice.
Show me examples.</p>
<p>you didn't say rape in your initial post; that was my point. </p>
<p>and don't forget statutory rape.</p>
<p>There do seem to be a lot of gay threads floating around, eh? :P</p>
<p>Adoption for anybody is pretty hard these days. It's not just gay couples that have a really hard time adopting. Every couple would have similar to the same difficulty. Although, the prejudice may influence adoption agencies to judge gay couples a little harsher.</p>
<p>I really don't believe in statutory rape when the 'child' is well into puberty when they are 16 or 17. Anyway, off topic.</p>
<p>^ A lot of states are reducing the age of consent to 16 or implementing a Romeo and Juliet law where it's ok if they're less than like 4 years apart.</p>
<p>I believe gays, single or "married", should have the exact same rights as straight people, single or married. If a couple is capable of loving and raising a child, then they should absolutely be allowed (even encouraged) to adopt. There are so many kids in and out of foster homes that it's ridiculous to close off a win-win situation like this. I also support gay marriage.</p>