This debate is not about a right to adopt, political correctness, gay rights, or parenting. It's a debate about children's chance for a family.

It may be that John and others didn't see this case as a gay-rights case.

By in large in this country the issue of gay rights and equality should be past the point of debate. Really, there should be no debate anymore.

I'm not a gay rights activist.

Gay rights are human rights.

We must have a full debate and votes on issues such as China's pitiful human rights record, China's brutal suppression of religious freedom, China's increasingly belligerent stance toward the Democratic Chinese government on Taiwan and China's unbroken record of violated agreements one after another on other matters. You can't trust them,