“There are people who've said that I'm being brave for being openly supportive of gay marriage, gay adoption... With all due respect, I humbly dissent. I am not being brave, I'm a decent human being... Love is a human experience, not a political statement,” Anne Hathaway explains for her Human Rights Campaign Ally Award acceptance speech in 2008. It’s her answer to the big question, should homosexual couples be able to adopt? I think they should because if you think about it, it’s simple civil rights! If you discriminate couples because they are 2 people of the same gender, aren’t you taking away their rights? Few reasons I think that gay and lesbian couples should be able to adopt are that homosexuals are just as fit to parenting as heterosexuals, …show more content…
Children adopted by gay and lesbian couples are not snatched from heterosexual couples, they are kids who need families. These kids need homes already, because they are in foster care, and they don't care if they have 2 moms or 2 dads, the only thing that matters is that they have people who love and care for them. “Approximately 2 million LGBTQ couples are looking to adopt, and they can help the 428,000 kids in foster care. Some people might say that a kid would rather stay in foster care, than live with homosexuals, but if you were a child in foster care, what would you pick? The foster system is the worst place any child can end up. On average foster kids move from house to house 7 times. Some of those places are abusive and mean to them because they want the money the government provides for taking care of the them! For the 428,000 children, the chances of getting put in a good home is slim. Why not let homosexual couples who want to open up their hearts and home to those kids, adopt? Kids need to be loved and helped, not be stuck in a, to put it nicely, hellhole! Every couple, gay and straight, alike should be able to have the right to give them that. And every kid in the world should have the right to a nice and caring family, no matter who the parent’s genders, and sexual