It’s been widely noted how rapidly approval for same - sex marriage has become mainstream, at least in the USA and Western Europe. What’s been less well known, is how support for adoption by same - sex couples has grown even more rapidly, as this graph from and quotation from Gallup illustrate:

Most Americans Say Same-Sex Couples Entitled to Adopt

As the question of whether same-sex parents should be allowed to adopt has been debated in the U.S. in the last decade, same-sex couples nationwide have been adopting children at a regular pace. According to the Williams Institute at UCLA, more than 16,000 same-sex couples are raising an estimated 22,000 adopted children in the U.S. While popular support for same-sex adoption is outpacing approval of gay marriage, Gates notes that even lesser forms of relationship recognition — such as civil unions and domestic partnerships — have included the right for same-sex couples to jointly adopt children. In other words, Americans have reached consensus faster about same-sex couples adopting children than about support for gay marriage in the last 20 years.

via Gallup

Let me stress the important point here. That’s 22000 American kids who are not being raised by their biological, opposite - sex parents, who are being raised by loving, approved and capable parents - who might otherwise have had no parents at all.

Outside of some Catholic die - hards who insist on placing religious ideology above the best interests of the child - what reasonable people could possibly object?

Related articles

• Surging Catholic Support for Gay Marriage, Gay Adoption (US) (queeringthechurch.com)
• Across the U.S., Anti-Marriage Equality Laws and Amendments are “Toppling Like a Line of Dominoes” (thewildreed.blogspot.com)
• In Bible Belt, Church Activism for Gay Marriage (queeringthechurch.com)
• Gay marriage: Where is the ‘damage to Society, Archbishop? (queeringthechurch.com)