I think your theology is slightly off beam. The ideal is one man one woman and then children, but nothing is ideal due to the Fall. Love is everything including forgiveness, grace and mercy.
Telling lies is a sin, living together without being married is a sin, sex outside of marriage ie adultery is a sin, ignoring God is a sin. Fortunately for us humans sins can be forgiven.
Another paragraph from that American study
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), the leading medical organization to make such a statement, and which most other organizations followed, simply said, “a growing body of scientific literature demonstrates that children who grow up with 1 or 2...
I was bullied in a similar way in the 50s because I was the only one with divorced parents.
Either Tom or Duncan will be related by DNA. That's no different from a straight couple using an egg donation in IVF.
I tried looking for this on IPlayer but it's not available now, nor on YouTube, but this was one of the most moving programmes I'd seen. A gay couple adopted children, but not only adopted them, they specifically adopted older children who had special needs.
A same sex couple labelled...