Good points, and while I personally don't think adoption agencies/groups should discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation, I disagree with the idea that they can do it and suck it up or get out adoption business.
To address the prescription analogy, drugs don't care if they are or are not bought. A drug is just as happy sitting in a warehouse as it is sitting in your medicine cabinet. Children are not so lucky and adopting a kid out to a family is probably better than leaving them in an orphanage or foster care. The adoption process isn't a commercial transaction, we expect all agencies that handle adoptions to discriminate against people who are not fit to be parents. Given the current political climate, I don't think most people are comfortable enough with homosexuality to really support it's inclusion in an anti-discimination law, yet.
I don't know when or even if we'll ever get far enough away from our puritanical roots to change that, but kids can't really wait around for years and years until our society gets it's collective head out of it's ass.
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Date: 2006-03-01 08:49 pm (UTC)To address the prescription analogy, drugs don't care if they are or are not bought. A drug is just as happy sitting in a warehouse as it is sitting in your medicine cabinet. Children are not so lucky and adopting a kid out to a family is probably better than leaving them in an orphanage or foster care. The adoption process isn't a commercial transaction, we expect all agencies that handle adoptions to discriminate against people who are not fit to be parents. Given the current political climate, I don't think most people are comfortable enough with homosexuality to really support it's inclusion in an anti-discimination law, yet.
I don't know when or even if we'll ever get far enough away from our puritanical roots to change that, but kids can't really wait around for years and years until our society gets it's collective head out of it's ass.