SparklyKid - // AH, you are miles of course here. My step kids grew up and left home long before I met their mother. //
Then they are not your step children, they are your wife's children from her first marriage, which is not the same thing at all.
// The issue is, I , along with many others, am not happy with this modern trend of same sex couples obtaining children, I do not believe it is healthy for the childs development. //
And I am sure that your wife, and her children, are grateful that they escaped being raised with your appalling Victorian notions that paying lip-service to society is more important that children being raised with love and respect for themselves ands the people around them.
If I had shown your attitudes my wife would not have allowed me within a ten-mile radius of our children - bigotry and homophobia have no place in a loving family.