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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wow, some serious crickets in this thread.

YES or NO. It's easy. Would you folks support doing a very careful randomized study to answer this question. Either you're pro-science or you're not. Let's let the NIH do it. It's not like I'm calling for the Heritage Foundation to do it.[/quote]

Umm, where are you getting all these adoptable infants from?[/quote]

Yes.  I'd support it.  And I'd be confident that it would show that good parenting is down to people and not sexuality.  But at that point, I'd expect people like you to stop believing in science and accuse the people running the experiment of pushing a political agenda.[/quote]

Good for you. And you're wrong about me. I have my priors, but I favor making policy based on rigorous data/science. So, if the NIH did a clean random experiment and found that the children randomly assigned to married gay couples did just as well as the children randomly assigned to heterosexual married couples, I would favor both gay adoption and gay surrogacy parenting. [b]If, on the other hand, the children did far worse with the gay married couples, I'd question why we should take children away from either their mother or father.[/b] BTW, I'd say the same thing for surrogacy pregnancies undergone by single mothers too. My point is I want science to guide us on what's best for kids, not ideology.[/quote]

You make it sound like these children are forcibly taken away from birth parents who want them to be placed with gay families. Do you understand what surrogacy is? And as a PP already pointed out, are you aware of the fact that the vast majority of children adopted by gay families only have the foster care system as an alternative? Foolish policy prescriptions that have no basis in reality are not the hallmark of a scientific mind.[/quote]

You're evading the point. What if the evidence shows that the best possible thing for a child is to be raised with his or her mother and father. If this can be demonstrated (and there's a lot of reasons to suspect that it is true), why on earth (same sex or hetero) would you create life under these circumstances that wouldn't be in the best interest of the child. An adopted kid is different. It already exists and needs a home. But why would anyone purposefully introduce a child into a home without his or her natural mother and father. What possible reason (outside of an adult's desires) would that serve?[/quote]

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