Gay adoptions.

I was quite taken aback to see that The Florida Bar, through the Family Law Section, was taking a position on a very divisive political and social issue. While there has been an attempt to suggest that this particular Bar section is using its voluntary annual dues to advocate legislative positions, the general public would no doubt be unaware of same, and assume that the total Florida Bar would be behind this advocated position.

One should know through the hot debates of the ABA on issues of abortion, and so on, that members of the Bar would hold various and diverse views on this topic. The Florida Bar should refrain from taking such positions because of this. It is well known that, on homosexual rights issues generally, the vast majority of the population, which would include Bar members, would not join in advocating homosexual rights for adoption.

While advocates try to suggest that their issue is actually one of children's rights, that stance this is really disingenuous and deceptive as these advocates seem to have one thing in mind: to further the homosexual agenda, despite the negative effects that the homosexual household will generally have on a child to grow up fit and well-adjusted.

I notice that some of the persons who have advocated the Family Law Section position for homosexual adoption rights have attempted to resort to the usual name-calling of "bigots," and have again tried to hook their star to the wagon of racial discrimination, since they know full well that the homosexual rights agenda could never stand on its own. While Family Law Section Chair Evan Marks cleverly attempts to use Dr. Martin Luther King's quote, "always the right time to do the right thing," (unfortunately used out of context), Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., would certainly not promote homosexual rights, but far from it. As the Rev. Richard Bennet, Jr., (an African-American) stated at last year's Martin Luther King, Jr., remembrance, "Dr. King would be outraged at efforts to link gay rights advocacy with the black civil rights struggle."

Attempts to disparage as "bigots" those who point out the immorality of the homosexual agenda are misplaced and merely part of a plan to attempt to legitimize behavior that is in fact inherently immoral.

Promoters of homosexual adoptive rights cry of "an age of enlightenment." I assume their enlightenment would also place children in homes where polygamy or bigamy is practiced. What about pedophilia or a household where...