If two people love each other, and are willing to spend their lives together, raise a child, have a family, should it matter what their gender is?
There are so many conservative people saying that gay families "can't provide what a child needs" and "cannot upbring a child as a traditional heterosexual family could". The thing is, all of this is built on ignorance. The reason why homosexual parents have hard times raising children is because of their rights being limited. And their rights are limited because they can't raise children correctly (as people say)? It's built on a cycle of ignorance and limiting of human rights that causes problems in homosexual families. It brings me to a question I think about a lot; Why is the government so stupid?
There are conservative politicians that are asked why they don't believe in gay rights, and actually respond with "because I don't" (see Karen Handel). And then they continue to be anti-gay. That's bad politics right there. And there isn't any need for gay adoption/rights to be involved in politics anyway, but it just had to be, which is really what's causing the problems. Some of these politicians have actually never met any gay parents too! Which means they have ignorance about them, and, as always, ignorance leads to prejudice, and prejudice leads to hate, and hate leads to the limits of rights.
This country was built on the idea of equal rights and opportunities for all. Yet, throughout the history of America there have always been problems maintaining that ideal (people have been discriminated against due to racism, sexism, and religion). It has never actually been an equal place to be; so neither has anywhere else.
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