Gay Adoption: It Will Bring Benefits
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Gay Adoption: It Will Bring Benefits
On a Friday afternoon in the Baptist Medical Hospital delivery room, a young lady at the age of fifteen has just given birth to a six, pound eight oz. little boy. As she sits in her room recovering, she decides to hold her baby for one last time. The reason for this is that she has decided that putting her baby up for adoption would be the best thing for the child. This baby will never know his mother’s touch or love and is at the mercy of anyone who’s willing to pick up where this young mother left off. In Florida, there is one couple who have desperately been trying to bring a child into their hearts and home for about five years now by means of adoption. After having met the young girl while working at the hospital, they believe that this might be the one for them. Tragically, their application was denied- because they were a homosexual couple. Now this couple won’t have the chance to give a child the home and love it deserves and now their dream come true will never happen and becoming a haunting memory unless something can be done for them and millions of homosexual couples like them.
As the population of the gay community continues to rise, so do the struggles which those gay couples have to endure in order to try to have a normal life. In Florida, as well as most other US states, one of those struggles which they have to endure is the illegality or bans that these states have placed on gay adoption. Not only do these couples have to put up with the discrimination they experience through churches and those who are against gays, but they also have to deal with laws which forbid them the rights which are taken for granted by those who have them and don’t take advantage of these rights
The denial of adoption given to the homosexual couple is a result of a 33 year long and ongoing ban that has made adoption by homosexuals impossible. It began in 1977 with Florida placing a ban on adoption by gay couples. Since ‘77,...
On a Friday afternoon in the Baptist Medical Hospital delivery room, a young lady at the age of fifteen has just given birth to a six, pound eight oz. little boy. As she sits in her room recovering, she decides to hold her baby for one last time. The reason for this is that she has decided that putting her baby up for adoption would be the best thing for the child. This baby will never know his mother’s touch or love and is at the mercy of anyone who’s willing to pick up where this young mother left off. In Florida, there is one couple who have desperately been trying to bring a child into their hearts and home for about five years now by means of adoption. After having met the young girl while working at the hospital, they believe that this might be the one for them. Tragically, their application was denied- because they were a homosexual couple. Now this couple won’t have the chance to give a child the home and love it deserves and now their dream come true will never happen and becoming a haunting memory unless something can be done for them and millions of homosexual couples like them.
As the population of the gay community continues to rise, so do the struggles which those gay couples have to endure in order to try to have a normal life. In Florida, as well as most other US states, one of those struggles which they have to endure is the illegality or bans that these states have placed on gay adoption. Not only do these couples have to put up with the discrimination they experience through churches and those who are against gays, but they also have to deal with laws which forbid them the rights which are taken for granted by those who have them and don’t take advantage of these rights
The denial of adoption given to the homosexual couple is a result of a 33 year long and ongoing ban that has made adoption by homosexuals impossible. It began in 1977 with Florida placing a ban on adoption by gay couples. Since ‘77,...