It is more difficult for newly married same-sex couples in Utah to adopt, according to lawyers handling such cases, after the attorney general on Monday began urging judges to reject adoption applications from same-sex couples.

"It feels terrible," said Kathy Harbin, who married her partner of nine years in Salt Lake City last December, a few days after a federal judge struck down the state's ban on same-sex marriage. "The state acts like, if it puts all of these things in place that stop us, there won't be any gay parents. I don't think they know that there are thousands of us who already have children and all they're doing is making it harder for us to give them all the things that parents want to give their kids."

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Adopting the children would also spare her from further explanation when they get older. "The thing that feels the most uncomfortable,” she said, “is for the boys to have to understand that for some reason their family is not as good as somebody else's family."



http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/0...13&ir=Politics

Disgusting.

Originally posted by ethan Why though? What logical reason have they got for denying same-sex couples the ability to adopt?

Originally posted by Embustera Why do gay people want kids which is a heterosexual act?

Originally posted by Embustera Why do gay people want kids which is a heterosexual act?

Originally posted by Embustera Why do gay people want kids which is a heterosexual act?

Is it such a bad thing that there are some gay couples who WANT to be parents? Who want families of their own? I mean, it's a really big deal when you see that. It means they genuinely do. Unlike some heteros who are either in it for the money or just are apathetic to the kids they do have.

Originally posted by Embustera Why do gay people want kids which is a heterosexual act?