by Gregory Quinlan

   In Ohio in 2004, 3.3 million voters (62%) declared that marriage, the basic building block of the family, is a union between one man and one woman. No other relationship will be recognized as marriage or receive its benefits. Therefore, the logical conclusion is that the people of Ohio believe married heterosexual couples provide the best environment to raise and nurture children.

   In helping construct Ohio’s Adoptive children’s Protection Act, we have produced documented testimony from men and women raised by homosexual, bisexual and transgendered parents. They convey the heartache, confusion and turmoil of growing up in these households. Example: The 2002 British Christian Institute published study, Children as Trophies, which examined 144 gay adoption studies, making it the largest such survey in Europe. The survey concluded that gays actually make worse parents than heterosexuals. One such case is Jakii Edwards, who was placed in the care of a lesbian foster mother at an early age. According to Jakii, “She would put my brother and I in the same bed with her and her lesbian lover, and she would get in the bed and they would make love right there in the bed with my brother and I in there…The pain that I dealt with was tremendous, and affected me for a long time.”

   If the welfare of the Child is of the utmost concern, think about this: The first adoption in New Jersey between two homosexual males resulted in their adopted son being left as an orphan at the age of five when both men died from the result of the gay lifestyle of AIDS related disease. (Same-Sex Marriage—Putting Every Household at Risk; Mathew Staver, Esq.).

   Since the state is making this momentous decision on placing children for adoption or foster-parenting, the state must make the best choice possible in placing children. Anyone wishing to know the truth can find it. From the homosexual point of view, adoption is about advancing a political and social agenda, not about the best interest of the child.

   Gregory Quinlan, Ex-Gay and President of Pro-Family Network