The Supreme Court has decided not to hear a gay adoption case where Florida’s blanket law against homosexual adoptions was being challenged. The Christian blogs of World magazine and Sounding the Trumpet are pleased with decision, although the Court’s action doesn’t set any precedent.

World magazine writes, “The possibility of a child being adopted by a gay couple makes many young women less willing to consider placing their children for adoption.” Sounding the Trumpet adds, “All the major social studies have shown again and again that children grow up best in a family with both a father and a mother.” Yet all of these posts rest on assumptions that largely aren’t there. The Florida adoption statute offers no preference for married couples and expressly permits adults who are not married to adopt. Indeed, over a quarter of all adoptions are to single, heterosexual parents. The government aim that World and others are touting isn’t being met at all, through the law or in practice. Perhaps just as important, young children must often wait in foster care for years before being adopted, and a significant number never get adopted at all.

Is it in the best interests of children to be adopted by a caring homosexual parent who has raised them their entire life rather than languish in the state institution of foster care? I think it’s a highly debatable point with sound arguments on both sides. But either way we must understand that there are simply not enough qualified two-parent heterosexual couples willing to adopt to achieve the goal of two parent mother/father households.

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