Wow, glad to see the topic worked!

Thanks for your replies. It's funny, I teach a lot of English classes over here and lately this has been one of those 'get a conversation going' type topics and the opinions that are expressed include the ones you've all outlined above.

The whole Catholic thing here in Spain is one which is still a big thing, even though the country has been administratively secular for a while now. It's more or less a right-left political split too, although in the last couple of years we've been treated to 'shock-horror' stories of homosexual priests ( a big no-no in traditional spanish society) homosexual politicians (more accepted :wink: and even a homosexual civil guard (national military police org, that one caused a real stir)

I personally think that as long as a child is loved, and not abused then it doesn't matter who brings him (or her) up. How many children have already been brought up by homosexual priests in religious boarding schools?

Also, thousands of children are messed up every year by heterosexual family couples that beat them and swear at them and abuse them in other ways, so I don't see homosexuals having the exclusive on bringing up children badly.

I don't think life's about tags. Makes us sound too much like an entry in technocrati.