SM, let us elaborate on your allegory. Orphaned/abandoned children will then correspond to a plane who lost both its engines.

So, would you rather have the plane never take off, or the plane take off with two right engines that are willing to server as both the left and the right engine?

In this case, your argument is a non-starter.

“Every child has the right to have a male father and a female mother”.

So should we imprison single parents or force them to marry?

hear hear

I told you he was good.

And they’re all waving “Partit Laburista” flags and banners, too.

There is a difference between a situation created by circumstances to one created by design.

All commercial planes can fly with one of their engines switched off, but no pilot in his right mind would take off with a missing engine.

M… you seem to favour nature over nurture. Can you elaborate why?

http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20130113/opinion/Numbers-on-tap-and-no-politics.452977

There are some very successful and stable adults brought up by lone male or female parents as well as hetrosexual or same sex couples.

The gender/sexual orientation of the parents does not dictate the outcome of the child’s chances of doing well; the genes do however.

Which I too would do.

Every child has the right to have a male father and a female mother.

Otherwise, children would be exposed to state-sanctioned discrimination.