What have all the monumental figures in our history accomplished with their fight

for equal rights? Predominant people such as Martin Luther King Jr. fought against racial

discrimination, Women fought for their right to vote, and now we face the prejudice

against gay couples who wish to adopt. It is sad, really, if we have come all this way to

continue to discriminate against people who are simply just living their lives just like you

and I. The Government and Conservatives alike have dragged this issue out and have

forgotten about the basic issue and therefore, the innocent victims: children who need to

be adopted.

Go ahead; ask any child up for adoption what he or she needs the most. They will

answer “a family” in a heart beat. That’s what it’s all about. A loving family that is ready

and willing to take care of them. Where is it written that a family must consist of a man

and a woman at the head? There are families in which for whatever unfortunate

circumstances, children are taken care of by a single parent, grandparents, aunts, uncles,

or perhaps other relatives. These children grow up happy and “normal” with their own

personalities and their own advantages. These children did not have a man and a woman

as the head of their home and they still succeed in life. Children who don’t have that

luxury, the luxury of a home, aren’t picky; they just want to be loved and to feel part of

something, part of a family. A homosexual couple, just the same as a heterosexual

couple, can equally fulfill these needs for any child.

My opposition would argue that a child needs to have a mother and a father to

grow up without confusion about their sexuality. To that I say that a child would in fact

be more open and rational, better rounded and cultured, and impartial to discrimination.

They’ll argue that adopted children would have developmental problems arising from

adoption, and having a stable heterosexual household during and after puberty might be

more important for adopted children than for other children. To that I will argue this

following point; who is to say that a heterosexual couple is stable? Have we forgotten

about the all too common domestic abuse cases, or the substance addiction problems, and

perhaps infidelity? And these popular problems are just the tip of the iceberg of

unfortunate occurrences. Now who are the stable parents?

Gay couples are loving couples who are eager to give their love, raise, and

educate. They are people with rights, feelings, personalities, intelligence, careers, and

lives just like anyone else. They aren’t animals nor aliens who are incapable of providing

a stable home. When our founding fathers came to America they wanted “liberty and

justice for all.” Where is it?

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