Life is hard, and when you act to bring a person into it, it seems to me you owe them. Humans require stability; biological families are supposed to provide identity and belonging that isn't based on someone's mood or whimsy.

This is not an unreasonable opinion to have. But it's hardly a settled issue. Whatever the advantages biological families provide vs. what non-biological families provide is something you merely assume. Your child being able to recite a long pedigree doesn't guarantee him a stable, loving, supportive environment to grow up in.

I'm not sure where you're getting the idea that homosexuals are among this new class of people who treat their children as pets. I don't disagree that treating children as "things" to be acquired is wrong or that it happens. I disagree that homosexuals are somehow more liable to do this than heterosexuals. You seem to have a preconceived notion as to what homosexual families are like... and quite frankly it's wrong.

In every effed up family I've ever met or been a part of, the basic sexual orientation of the parents has never once been the cause of the family's dysfunction. That's just me speaking anecdotally, but hard research also bears this out. Kids growing up in same sex parent household show no greater incidence of psychological, physical, or emotional harm than the children of opposite sex parent households. Sorry.