by Bruce Bawer
Reflections from a conservative friend of mine, who seven years ago travelled to Siberia with his wife to adopt a little boy, and who a couple of days ago heard a New Jersey preacher on the radio slamming New York’s gay marriage law:
His main point of contention was that gay marriage was more about pushing a larger agenda than the gay marriage itself, i.e. teaching a liberal/gay agenda to kids in school … he seemed to have a big beef against adoption for gay couples, and specifically mentioned adoption of black kids by white, same-sex couples. He mentioned higher suicide rates among gays….
I can tell you that at the time we adopted P. (2004), the suicide rate among orphans in Russia was somewhere around TWENTY-FIVE PERCENT ….To argue against adoption by any stable, loving couple because the child's life could theoretically, statistically be worse if they grew "confused" over their gay parentage and personal sexuality, is not only ignorant, it goes against the fact that a loving home will always, 100% of the time, be better than institutional care or group foster care (or bad or neglectful birth parentage, for that matter). And my own personal observation as a parent is that one's sexual preferences are hardwired from birth anyway.