Do you think gay couples can be great parents? Yes, they can be! There are plenty of abandoned children out in this world, and by allowing and even making it easy for same-sex couples to adopt, we can find many more homes for these children to be loved and cared for.

By allowing certain adoption agencies the ability to discriminate based on the makeup of the parents only serves to hurt children in adoption agencies. Effectively, they are being denied a home because the people in charge do not believe same-sex couples should adopt.

Experts have found no difference in parenting performance between gay couples and heterosexual couples. They fulfill all the responsibilities required of good parents and there is no proof that being raised by a gay couple has any negative impact on a child's development. In fact, research has shown that gay parents may actually be better parents for a multitude of reasons.

Abbie Goldberg, a psychologist who researched homosexual parenting, says that gay parents "tend to be more motivated, more committed than heterosexual parents on average, because they chose to be parents." Think about this, gay parents become parents by choice. It is physically impossible for a gay couple to have a child "by accident," while roughly 50% of heterosexual couples become parents unplanned.

This pure intention of being parents makes gay couples prime candidates for adopting children, a right and a  privilege the government should protect not only for the parents, but for the many children needing a home.