Should same-sex couples raise children?

Since I promised Jess I would post something if the topic got to be (a little) popular, here we go..

Being raised in a southern Baptist family, I was taught that homosexuality was wrong, interracial marriage was wrong, women aren't people and should be subservient to their husbands, and other such nonsense.

However, I was a smart child and learned things the way everybody, imho, should: By observation.

Love between two consenting people is a wonderful thing, and it should not matter whether or not it is between two men or two women, a white man and a black women, mexicans and asians, anything. The only objection I could make would be something sick and twisted, like a grown man making a young teen think she loved him, but that isn't quite the point I'm trying to make.

Now, when a man and a woman want children, but are unable due to problems with the reproductive organs, they have several options open to them. Nobody objects when they want to have kids, even if they are bad people.

When a homosexual couple want to have kids, they have fewer options. Both the gays and lesbians can adopt, or the lesbians can get artificially inseminated. But many people immediately object, because they do not think it would be good for the child, even if the people are good.

To make this short, just because they are gay doesn't mean they are bad parents, and just because they are straight doesn't mean they are good parents. Mine certainly weren't good. I would rather have two moms or two dads that were loving and caring than mine, who are very hateful people and only stand me because they consider it their legal responsibility.

I would never deny a persons right to be happy. My best friend is gay, and its terrible that she is going to have to experience such prejudices in life, but I wouldn't want her to get married to some guy she could never be happy with..

Well, I suppose I've rambled long enough, and if I continue I'll lose sight of the original topic..