Ohio Introduces Gay Adoption Ban

Ten members of the Ohio General Assembly this week introduced HB515, the so-called “Adoptive and Foster Children’s Protection Act,” which would legally prevent foster-care and adoptive children from being placed in the home of a gay, bisexual or transgender person.

Well my dear conservative Christians are at it again. They want to ban adoptions of children by gay people in Ohio. It doesn’t matter that the best available evidence we have suggests that children raised in a gay household are no worse off than those raised in other adoptive households. There are almost 164,000 households headed by gay and lesbian parents in the U.S. alone. Why don’t the conservative Christians ask the the children in these households if they want to leave their families? There isn’t a surplus of married men and women lining up to adopt these children, either. How some Christians can want to deny these kids the chance to be loved and nurtured by anyone is a mystery to me!

 Kudos: PlanetOut, American Psychological Association