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BBC website poll: should gay couples be allowed to adopt?

- | 16.10.2002 12:56

Kids in care homes deserve the chance to live instead as part of a family (gay or straight, married or not); please vote yes in the BBC poll!

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- Homepage: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/talking_point/default.stm

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uh no

16.10.2002 13:15

Trying to fix an online poll?

disgusted


Adoption

16.10.2002 13:53

is a disgusting business, legalised child abduction, used by the bourgeoise to refresh their own decaying membership while breaking up the proletariat a bit more. Did anyone see that poor woman on Richard & Judy last evening, who lost her boy 40 years ago ?
Why the hell do Gays want to get involved in this murky practice ? I dont care about their pretentions to be 'normal' citizens.

no matter


Two sides to any arguement

16.10.2002 14:06

I was adopted and I'm glad about it. Better that than the fucked up children's home.

n/a


out of order post

16.10.2002 15:11


The above post 'vote no' contravines one of the guidelines for this site by saying homosexuals are not to be trusted with children:

Discrimination: posts intending to oppress - using language, imagery, or other forms of communication which promote racism, fascism, xenophobia, sexism, or any other form of discrimination.

it should be hidden.

paul


Go post your anti-gay stuff on the bbc

16.10.2002 15:13

this is not the website for it - the bbc will take it:
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/talking_point/2332433.stm

not gay but proud of my mates


In defence of the anti- remark above

18.10.2002 14:39

Funny how the whole matter of adoption assumes a lot of things : that all adoptive parents must be 'sincere', when truth is they often do it out of a sense of conciet; that adoption is a manifestly good thing in itself, when in fact taking the children of others is a drastic measure;
Additionally, the question of the horrid childrens home lurking in the background like the hotel from Psycho fails to answer the question of why these homes are so bad, or why parents abandoned their chi8ldren to such institutions. Adoption is usually preferred by moralistic and authoritarian states, such as Franco's Spain, Turkey, and here. I see no role for it whatever. Blair loves the idea: isnt that warning enough ?
True, gays want cake and eat it; they want to differentiate themselves from mainstream life as much as posssible, then want to come back in, under the cover of family units; why do they complicate life for themselves so much ? Why try to prove how staright you can be ?

P Layton