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I covered this in my Gay Marriage blog. I find Mr. Wachter’s viewpoint extremely narrow and shallow. To refuse the rights of Gay people in this world is absurd! 

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Floridians voted decisively on November 4, 2008 to approve Amendment 2 whereby, the Florida State Constitution would be righfully commended to ban same sex marriage.  Astonishingly, while 61.9% of Floridians defended marriage from enroachment by homosexuals, a Quinnipiac University poll of 1,370 Floridians reported by U.S.A. Today on January23, 2009, showed 55% favored doing away with a state law prohibiting homosexuals from adopting.  Only 39% of those polled wanted to maintain this ban.  Related Quinnipiac poll results reported on January 23, 2009 by U.S.A Today included: 27% of Floridians said gays should be allowed to marry, 35% approved of gay civil unions, while 31% said that no recognition should be given to gay unions.

Approving of homosexuals adopting children seem to me to be incongruent with disapproving of homosexuals being permitted to marry.  Referring back to points I made in my previous Blog addressing gay marriage, I would reiterate that placing children with homosexual couples is a recipe for disaster through deviant example.  No rational person can assert that homosexual orientation is natural, or a normal result of the developmental process.  It is a given that nature abores a vaccuum.  A practical manifestation of this axiom is that homosexuals, because of the concious choices they make to engage in objectively disordered sexual acts, surrender by extension any right to procreate.  Or if, as homosexuals claim, their inherent deviance is genetic in origin, then their ability to procreate is natures assurance that fundamentaly damaged genetics will be eliminated from the genetic pool.

Moreover, Floridians have approved amending the State Constitution to assure marriage remains defined as a union between one man and one woman.  As such, homosexual couples do not enjoy any legal recognition of equivalant stature and thus, should not be permitted to adopt children.  Homosexuals cannot provide a balanced, nuclear family, which psychologists all but unanimously agree is necessary for the mental, emotional and developmental health and welfare of children.

In support of these conclusions I would point out evidence summarized by a team of social scientists headed by W. Bradfor Wilcox which issues their findings in Why Marriage Matters, Second Edition: Twenty-Six Conclusions From the Social Sciences (2005).  Among these conclusions are:

*Cohabitation is not the functional equivalent of marriage

*Marriage and a normative commitment to marriage foster high quality relationships between adults, as well as between parents and children.

*Parental divorce (or failure to marry) appears to increase children’s risk of school failure.

*Children who live with their own two married parents enjoy better physical health on average than do children in other family forms.

*Marriage is associated with reduced rates of alcohol and substance abuse for both adults and teens.

*Married people, especially married men have longer life expectencies than do otherwise similar singles.

*Boys raised in single-parent families are more likely to engage in delinquent and criminal behavior.

*Marriage appears to reduce the risk that adults will be either perpetrators or victims of crime.

*A child who is not living with his or her own two married parents is at a greater risk for child abuse.

**Statistics found in (Why Marriage Matters, Second Edition:Twenty-Six Conclusions from the Social Services [New York:Institute for American Values 2005], pp 10-11).

With these conclusions in mind, and numerous other studies which have reached similar conclusions, placing children with homosexual couples who are prohibited by law from marrying (or placing children with other unmarried persons in general) is entirely counter productive to the child’s health and well being.

As such, Florida should not only maintain and continue to enforce law prohibiting homosexuals from adopting children, but should expanse the current laws to ban adoption of children by any unmarried couples.  Arkansas voters voted in resounding favor, by 73.3%, for Initiative 1, on Nov. 4, 2008, which proposed precisely such a ban.  Moreover, and because such an enhancement or modification to Florida’s law would include all unmarried persons and/or couples, homosexuals could not attack the law as discriminatory as a result of sexual orientation.

(Anyone seeking further reading exploring the detrimental impact of homosexual parents on children, I would recommend the book; Out From Under:The Impact of Homosexual Parenting, by Dawn Stefanoxicz.  Annotation Press, 2007, 245 pgs., &14.95.  To order: annotationbooks.com or (877) 421-7323.)

Michael Anthony Wachter

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