Dennis PragerFounder, PragerU · Founder of PragerU | NYT best-selling author

Gay Marriage/Gay Adoption

27 Jul 2025 · 3 min

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In this commentary, the speaker (Dennis Prager) argues that the optimal adoptive home is a married mother and father, describing this arrangement as the moral ideal. He acknowledges having gay friends with children, citing Dave Rubin and his husband David, who used a surrogate, and notes that even they agree the ideal is a mother‑father couple. The speaker distinguishes between this ideal and the reality when such couples are unavailable: he suggests that an orphanage, foster‑care system, or a single woman adopter is preferable to leaving a child without a family. He positions adoption as the most moral solution compared to alternatives like artificial insemination, emphasizing that adoption provides a home for a child who otherwise lacks parents. Throughout, he frames his stance as a hierarchy of choices—ideal (married mother‑father), acceptable (single woman), and last resort (orphanage/foster care)—and presents his viewpoint as a normative, value‑driven argument.

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I always look at things as what is better than the next choice. If there is— this is my position, and it is called hate-filled by the left— that adoption should always be by quality couples of mother and father, a married mother and father. That's my number one choice. By the way, I have gay friends who have children who say that is the first choice. I'll be open. Dave Rubin is an example. Dave Rubin and his wonderful partner, spouse, David, these are wonderful human beings. They do have kids. They used a surrogate. Which is another issue which I won't get into now. And he said to me, and I said, can I quote you? He said, absolutely. He said, Dennis, the ideal is a mother and father, and he's two fathers. He is much closer to my value system than heterosexuals who differ with me, where married, a man or a woman married to the opposite sex and have children who don't say that that's the ideal, they are my problem, not the gays who have children or who have adopted. My problem is we can't deny the ideal. The ideal is a mother and father. So let's say there is an adoption agency with a child, and let's say the child has physical problems, and there's no mom, married mom, dad, or married man and woman who want to adopt that child, or at least the agency can't find one. What is my choice? My choice is what? An orphanage. I don't even know if we have orphanages today, but go, go to from foster home to foster home, or to have, let's say, a woman like this woman adopt the child. In that case, I, it seems to me better that the child be adopted by a woman like this than not be not have a family chance. So, well, they— Sean asked, what about artificial insemination? They, they asked about adoption. I, I think adoption is the, is the, the most moral route to take because you already have a child. That doesn't have a parent, as it were. So I, I think that that's a more clear-cut example of goodness being achieved.