I know this is a late response but I wanted to say thank you for the response! I have never found someone that has shared so similarly my beliefs on each of these points. The only opinion of these I have that has changed would be around the 4th point. While I agree that it is not ideal that a child would be raised without a mother or a father, I have in the past 5 years fostered a dozen or so kids and have had lots of exposure to really, really shitty parents. So while it is not ideal for the development of a child, I do think a based gay couple would be infinitely better than a child being left in the system without any parents.