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Originally Posted by sugar and spice
Well, obviously these kids are better off with no parents than with gay ones! 
It's especially stupid considering that this measure can't and won't stop gay parents from adopting. They'll just have half the couple adopt the child as a "single" parent and then raise it together. |
Right, but what it WILL do is ban second-parent adoption. So the second parent will not be legally able to be a parent and thus will have no legal rights regarding the child. For example, if the custodial parent passes away, then this sets up a legal battle wherein some homophobic grandparents (God forbid) fight the second parent for the child, since the second parent is not legally a "parent."
So it sucks. A lot.
I always get amused, though, by people who seemingly fail to realize that many gay people have BIOLOGICAL children. Lesbians can get pregnant! Gay men can have children from previous hetero relationships! Somehow people think that if they ban gay adoptions that magically gay people will have no access to children!