“Family Don’t End With Blood, But it Doesn 't Start There Either.” Adoption is a wonderful thing in this world, it allows children to have loving homes and caring parents that otherwise would be stuck in foster care. America, the land of the free and the home of the brave; all citizens here have rights. Time progresses and as a country America is taking steps to ensure that everyone has equal rights; this includes the rights of women and of the LGBT community. Equality among all citizens in America is not yet accomplished; lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and transgender people all face obstacles in their lives. Homosexual couples should be able to adopt children because of theological, physiological, and political points. The main reason
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Accepting gay couples in society would give chances to thousands of foster kids to have two loving parents that would otherwise not be able to have children. In 2009 there was a survey done over the number of children living in households where the parents were homosexual, it showed “that there are 250,000 children in the United States living with gay and lesbian parents, according to Lambda Legal, a national organization dedicated to protecting the rights of the LGBT community,” (Sioco). That means that the majority of those kids would otherwise be in foster care and wouldn 't have loving parents, even if they are a homosexual couple, to love and take care of them. Another main thing that is believed as to why gays and lesbians should not be able to adopt children is that the children living in these households will grow up to be gay. That is certainly not the case, “It 's like comparing it to if a black couple adopts a white child, will that child then become black?” (Ratliff). The obvious answer there is no, Jennifer Ratliff also says “the only difference is there 's two men in bed at night instead of a man and a woman.” Just because lesbian and gay couples aren’t normal doesn’t mean people should be prejudice against them. It 's not their fault that they can 't have children together in their relationship but that isn’t going to …show more content…
Denying the rights to a couple of the same sex is to deny them of a fundamental freedom. Not only does it violate the rights of homosexuals, it takes away their sense of security and belonging. There are many challenges that people in the LGBT community face throughout their lives, such as bullying, blackmail, and threats by other people. Then these issues become a problem of the law when the problems lead to things such as assisted suicide and even murder. “In 2011 David Kato, a prominent Ugandan campaigner for gay people 's rights, was murdered after a tabloid newspaper published his picture, along with those of 99 other homosexuals,” (Tainting love; Gay people’s rights). Everyone in America is supposed to have life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. When denying homosexual couples to adopt children, those rights are being taken away from them. They can 't pursue happiness because what would make them happy they are being told they can 't have. Liberty is also taken away from them because they aren’t free in public, society tells them that they can 't be who they are without being constantly put down for that. Not just those two rights are taken away sometimes, like in the case of David Kato and many others, even their lives are taken. Not allowing homosexual couples to adopt children is a political issue because it takes away their
Accepting gay couples in society would give chances to thousands of foster kids to have two loving parents that would otherwise not be able to have children. In 2009 there was a survey done over the number of children living in households where the parents were homosexual, it showed “that there are 250,000 children in the United States living with gay and lesbian parents, according to Lambda Legal, a national organization dedicated to protecting the rights of the LGBT community,” (Sioco). That means that the majority of those kids would otherwise be in foster care and wouldn 't have loving parents, even if they are a homosexual couple, to love and take care of them. Another main thing that is believed as to why gays and lesbians should not be able to adopt children is that the children living in these households will grow up to be gay. That is certainly not the case, “It 's like comparing it to if a black couple adopts a white child, will that child then become black?” (Ratliff). The obvious answer there is no, Jennifer Ratliff also says “the only difference is there 's two men in bed at night instead of a man and a woman.” Just because lesbian and gay couples aren’t normal doesn’t mean people should be prejudice against them. It 's not their fault that they can 't have children together in their relationship but that isn’t going to …show more content…
Denying the rights to a couple of the same sex is to deny them of a fundamental freedom. Not only does it violate the rights of homosexuals, it takes away their sense of security and belonging. There are many challenges that people in the LGBT community face throughout their lives, such as bullying, blackmail, and threats by other people. Then these issues become a problem of the law when the problems lead to things such as assisted suicide and even murder. “In 2011 David Kato, a prominent Ugandan campaigner for gay people 's rights, was murdered after a tabloid newspaper published his picture, along with those of 99 other homosexuals,” (Tainting love; Gay people’s rights). Everyone in America is supposed to have life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. When denying homosexual couples to adopt children, those rights are being taken away from them. They can 't pursue happiness because what would make them happy they are being told they can 't have. Liberty is also taken away from them because they aren’t free in public, society tells them that they can 't be who they are without being constantly put down for that. Not just those two rights are taken away sometimes, like in the case of David Kato and many others, even their lives are taken. Not allowing homosexual couples to adopt children is a political issue because it takes away their