Gays and adoptions

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Gay Families' Quiet Revolution

by Richard J. Rosendall


First published in Bay Windows, August 31, 2006

Nearly three decades after Anita Bryant’s notorious “Save the Children” campaign, increasing numbers of gay people are doing just that — giving loving homes to children that straight people have thrown away or have had taken from them due to neglect or abuse. No good deed goes unpunished, of course. Anita’s heirs don’t want us saving children. What is surprising is that efforts to make “gay adoption” a red meat issue in this year’s election have mostly fizzled.