Numerous sociological studies have indicated that the quality of parenting, alone, and not the sexual orientation or gender identity of parents, is the predictive factor in a child's emotional and physical well-being. The only rational and morally conscionable reason to deny adoption and foster parenting rights to a couple is due to one or more spouses or partners being objectively unfit for the challenges of parenthood in terms of emotional stability and ability to provide for a child's needs.

Swift placement in foster care or adoptive homes is essential to reestablishing a sense of security in a displaced or parentless child's life. Why delay that placement by screening out capable parents on the basis of a trait which the American Psychiatric Association agrees is neither a mental illness nor a risk factor for children?