i hate it here.

anyone up for a nice game of GERMANY OR FLORIDA?!

It's really sad to think of someone in the Florida Family Policy Council of Orlando locating the actual photo of the couple and thinking “We can't use this picture. The couple looks really nice and adoption-worthy.”

i would let the couple on the right adopt me,

It's Florida. What did you expect?

OMG that is totally John Travolta on the left! I would never let a Scientologist adopt a kid.

I think a lot of you are missing the point. Looks matter. Welcome to our society. And if a picture of a heterosexual couple that looked like white trash that just walked out of the 80's was depicted in a news article about adopting children, we'd all be thinking “Umm… wow. At least they have parents?”  On the other hand, if an attractive, well-off looking couple was depicted, we'd all be thinking “Awww, they look like great parents. <3” So the point of this is not that ugly people make worse parents, it's about how a journalist can easily manipulate how we feel about an article with simple picture. And the first picture was clearly used to scare people into thinking “OH GOD. THAT POOR CHILD!!”

wrong, wrong, so wrong.
kids deserve to have loving homes and it shouldn't matter if the couple is gay…just as long as they can provide that loving home. i know plenty of straight married people who have kids AND SHOULDN'T.
and what's amusing to me is that i thought the couple on the left was an ugly man and an ugly woman…lol.

So, abortion is bad but growing up without a family, even if it's a gay or lesbian couple is worse, even if it's in 1985?

slightly at a loss…
So looks decides the fate of a child? Because my brother's third wife was a real dog, though he had shared rights of his daughter.
Plainly said, a persons credentials shouldn't have to have anything to do with whether they are married to the same gender or not married at all, but rather the ability to give the child a loving home, decent education, and, of course, a PlayStation when they graduate high school.
(OK, maybe not the last one)

If they're going to mess around with politics the least they can do is start paying taxes. Christian values, my ass, they'd rather see a child get hacked up and tossed in a dumpster than allow gay adoption.

er, is the idea that the couple on the left should be banned from adopting?

Because ugly lesbians are less fit to be parents, I guess. This is wrong on so many levels.