Gay and Lesbian Parents

I agree with what others have said. I really can't believe this is a serious issue. Not only does Dailey fail to use evidence to back up his claims, all his claims themselves have no relevance to the topic at hand. Not to mention that he bashes gay rights activists and "the gay agenda," considering that he works for a notoriously anti-gay organization and is the author of books like Dark Obsession: The Tragedy and Threat of the Homosexual Lifestyle. His point isn't even that gays shouldn't be allowed to adopt, his stance is that they should have essentially no heterosexual-equivalent rights whatsoever because of their supposed abusive nature and promiscuity, which again, he has no evidence to support. As a matter of fact, the APA, which is a scientific organization, not religious like the Family Research Council Dailey works for, claims that no such studies even exist to back 'ol Timmy's claim.

The only thing he halfway proves is that gays and lesbians have higher rates of depression and related mental illnesses. The only problem is that studies have shown this is because of people, such as Dailey himself, who routinely belittle, bully, and discriminate against homosexuals, leading many to believe that there is something wrong with them when there isn't.

The fact of the matter is, even if gays and lesbians were less good at parenting than heterosexual couples (which again, they are not), they are still better than no parents at all for the 463,000 children in the U.S. foster care system alone. Two men, or two women, are better role models than being tossed from home to home.

Questions:

1) Flip side, do straight parents make good parents for homosexual and bisexual children? They can't relate with many of the struggles their child will go through.

2) Do people who fall outside the gender binary in any way make equally good parents?