Signatures Gay and Lesbian Equal Adoption Rights Petition : [ powered by iPetitions.com ]

#	First Name	Last Name	State	Country	Comments
1	Rami	Schwartz	MN	US
2	Michelle	Hall	NJ	US
3	Steve	Coulter	CA	US
4	Audrey	Weber
5	Gregory	Crowder	CA	US
6	Kenna	Belcher	MN	US
7	Pam	Moser		CA	I agree wholeheartedly.
8	Linda	cortes	FL	US	why can't they have the same rights as everyone else? I would think the children would prefer having a loving home vs a home were the parents have a certain sexual belief.
9	ABC	EFG		UK
10	Michael	Scott	KY	US	EQUAL RIGHTS!!!
11	Ingrun	Sonnenwende
12	Malcolm	Davis
13	Mike	Siero	OH	US
14	Dani	D.	ID	US
15	Richard	Berg Jr.	NC	US	I am a 24 young GWM that has had testicular cancer and that has prevented me from having kids. I feel that I as well as others, have been stripped that chance to have our own children and feel that we should have that right to adopt a child. As long as we have met the requierment that are needed. I think that these states should consider this and to reminde you that Florida has a very high gay, lesbian and bisexual population that suports the state in all ways.
16	Amy	Biskovich	WA	US
17	Patricia	Serafini		CA
18	Steven	Vidlund	MI	US	gay people don't want special rights, they just want equality.
19	Yvonne	Duff	FL	US	Gay and Lesbian parents are the most loving parents that a child could have.
20	shawn	mirman	NC	US	better to have loving parents, than no parents.
21	p.j.	bishop	CA	US	Ironically, children raised in the home of gay parents are taught not to be prejudiced against anyone. America needs to stop using the bible as a shield to protect their ignorance and fear of the unknown. Get the facts. Gay and lesbian parents adopt because they "want" to have children and raise them in a nurturing and free thinking environment. Homophobic right wing thinking extremists want to put their children into boxes and force many teens to contemplate or commit suicide because they are not accepted for being gay. We live in such a hypocritic puritanical society. Get the real facts, look in the mirror, and treat decent people like they should be treated.
22	Bill	Reed	IL	US	I'm a 14-year-old bisexual male and I care deeply about the GLBT community. Though I am a minor, I still believe that I should be able to have a say in adoptive rights. I highly support the community members that wish to adopt, and wish for my voice to be heard as well as adults.
23	amanda	benninger	MI	US	I'm a lesbian and i fell that i should have the right to adopt a child if i want studies show that most children from same sex parents actually have a better chance of being straight than those raised in a heterosexual home
24	sarah	kluesener	NH	US
25	Sarah	Wallace		CA
26	Van Arnam	Mark	FL	US
27	Michael	Chick	MA	US	While we engage in this outrageous "pissing contest", trying to determine the "correct" way to define a parent, thousands on children sit...alone...sad...waiting for someone to care for and love them. We've totally lost our focus and they, parentless children, are paying the price. What a shame. What a disgrace. These outdated and unconstitutional laws must be eliminated. The we can all get on with the really important issue: making a positive difference in the life of a child.
28	Anne	Walker	NV	US
29	Elda	Hall	OH	US	I find this topic rather ironic because their are so many heterosexual couple that completely destroy the lives of their children and no one says anything about that. Yet just because of a slight difference from the norm, people who are caring, loving, and able to provide a stable homelife are denied a child. while children sit in overcrowded foster homes and other government agencies desperately wanting someone to want them.
30	Mishalinya	Yahr	SC	US	My Mother is gay and has been since I was 3 years old.I think children with gay parents are more open minded and are in a position to make a more educated opinion on thier own sexuality. I am a striaght mother of 4. But I am striaght because of choice not because I Someone told me that being gay was wrong.
31	robert	reale	NY	US
32	Patricia	White	NV	US
33	Juna-Rae	Sterba	CA	US
34	Alexander	Williams	CA	US
35	Katherine	Hatzigiannakis	MD	US
36	Robert	Davidson	GA	US
37	Zane	Thompson	CA	US	do we want the young people of america (such as myself) to grow up believeing that being LGBT is still thought of as wrong?
38	Grainne	Gillespie		IE
39	donna	keeler	NM	US
40	Brittany	Sweet
41	Kate	Spencer	MO	US
42	Alison	Yong
43	Matthew	Dyer	OH	US
44	Andres	Quintana Roo	AZ	US
45	Adam	Tubbs	KY	US	Home of the brave...what a laugh!
46	Matthew	Hanson	NJ	US
47	Marjan	M	CA	US
48	Brandi	Zorzy	CT	US	I think that where love exists is where a family starts. It's better for a child to be raised in a love filled homosexual environment than a cold heterosexual environment. It's equal for the child if they are both filled with love to begin with. The only way we can end this discrimination is to stifle it in the youngest generation, and that would mean no discriminitory laws that this new generation has to grow up under.
49	anna	schaber	IL	US
50	Naomi	Jimenez	PA	US	Marriage and children are two of life’s most basic pleasures. The decision to marry and to have children is a personal decision, a decision not to be made by the government, but by two committed individuals in a loving relationship. The gender or sexual orientation of those two individuals is no excuse to deny these fundamental human rights. The time has come rid this country of all its double standards; time to incorporate sexual orientation into the “melting pot” of the “American family.”