Gays are already parenting, according to this link:
http://www.proudparenting.com/
(TomD, �Say Uncle� may be a little interesting). There are some 1780 members, most of whom are in some way connected to gays raising children. That�s already more than I�m comfortable with, and clearly there is continual and constant pressure to expand this number.

Such as here:
http://www.washingtonblade.com/forum/columns/viewpt/020426c.htm
The case of two deaf lesbians wanting their own deaf baby, and after not finding a deaf donor in sperm banks, using a willing deaf male friend. Their son Gauvin was born almost totally deaf � disabled. This is terrible; consumer parenting at its worst. It�s also bad for deaf parents to try to have a deaf baby. But disabled children need love, too � and do not necessarily lead meaningless lives.

Sorry Den, �everybody� does go through a simple biological test � if a (young?) man & woman are fertile AND they have sex they MIGHT have a baby. You prolly think this is too simple a test � yet no homosexual couple can pass it (for a child of the two.)

TomD, if they can�t pass this extremely simple test, THAT is some evidence they shouldn�t be having children. (If this isn�t �some� evidence, what would be? Please don�t waste more space about infertile het couples, etc.; it is equal evidence that the het couples shouldn�t be having children. BUT, from the child�s view, the adoptable children�s need for care trumps the couple�s barrenness.)

Homosexual parents either are biological parents through another relationship, or adopt. I�m pretty sure any young blonde with a healthy baby who wants to give it for adoption will find a long list of married white folks who would be happy to offer the child a fine home.

I�d suggest some of her problems, like many current parents, might well be related to growing up in an extremely confusing and consumer oriented culture, where �what I want� is commercially and politically the most prominent guide, as compared to �what I think is the best�. Part of the confusion is based on identity, �who am I?�, and �who do I want to be?� �What is normal?� �Am I normal?� �Is my family normal?�

In fact, neither today nor in the future, will same-sex families be �normal�; though there might be a slow accumulation of (prolly biased) evidence to support same-sex adoption so that it becomes accepted, as accepted as abortion. Or as accepted as white couples adopting black babies; which is also not �normal�. Yet I�m fairly comfortable with this, despite the �My family�s not normal� problems such an adopted child might have growing up. This is only partly because the barren couple might be able to conceive (and often does, after adopting! So the adopted child gets a sibling).

The ideal parents for adopting remain a husband and wife � and I see no reason any responsible wife-husband pair which wants to adopt should fail or be forced to wait while child experimentation is going on by giving children to singles (like Rosie) or same-sex unions.

In the case of disabled, or older, or for any reason unwanted kids, with no willing married couple available, it is interesting to consider relative merits of single mothers, single fathers, and same-sex couples. And somewhere on such a ladder, �less than responsible� het couples would also go�