Personally, I've never approved of same sex couples adopting. In fact, I was horrified to hear that were being allowed to adopt. I think when a young woman gives up a child for adoption she's picturing a traditional family. If they have biological children I can't stop that but I truly believe in the traditional family which has a mother and a father.
President Putin is against the adoption of Russian orphans by foreign same-sex couples, Russian media reveal. The government and the Supreme Court have reportedly been requested to come up with amendments to the law by July 1.
Tensions over the issue arose in mid-February, after the French National Assembly approved a sweeping bill to legalize gay marriage and allow same-sex couples to adopt children.
Soon after that children’s rights ombudsman Pavel Astakhov vowed he would do everything possible to ensure that Russian orphans are only adopted by traditional, heterosexual families. He quoted a recent incident regarding Egor Shabatalov.
http://blog.heritage.org/...
Can't say I blame Putin. Only two respondents whose mothers had a same-sex relationship repo...