Letters: Overturned Ruling a Good Thing, Gays Should be Parents

To the Editor:
This is a very good ruling, and long, long overdue. There are so many children in Miami that need  good homes, who are we to say that two men or two women cannot provide that loving and nurturing home? The realtity is, we have a high divorce rate and many children of divorced parents today are shuffled back and forth between parents, which is hardly a stable environment. I agree that a home with both a mother and father would be ideal, but that is not always possible.

In many cases the prospective adoptive parents are already acting as the child’s foster parent. So the state is saying that you can be responsible for the child temporarily, but not “fit” to be the permanent guardian? It makes no sense at all and quite frankly is ridiculous. As if forcing these children back to becoming wards of the state as opposed to allowing them to stay with their foster parents is really in the child’s best interest. In my mind, people who want to take in children, give them a home and raise them, regardless of sexual orientation, are to be commended, not deprived of the ability to do so.

Frankly, all potential parents should have to pass test….then we would have a lot less dysfunctional kids and probably a dramatic drop in child abuse. Way to go 3rd DCA.

Barton Phillips
Bay Harbor

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