Observer: Some of my best friends are married... but I wouldn't let them adopt a child
- Stephanie Merritt. The point is that all relationships - gay or straight, officially sanctioned or not - face the possibility of break-up, but choosing to adopt a child is a pretty good indication of commitment. The values that really matter in a family a
- http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,6903,815208,00.html

Observer: Gays hit back at charity on right to adopt
- The Christian Institute, an evangelical think-tank, produced thousands of anti-gay adoption cards. They are now to be investigated by the Charities Commission for using money raised through their tax-exempt charitable status to promote 'plain, straightfor
- http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,866192,00.html

Observer: Love is thicker than blood
- Will Hutton. The Lords say no gay or unmarried couples should adopt. They are wrong...it's care that matters, not genes.
- http://observer.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,815393,00.html

Guardian: Peers could block gay adoption plan
- Lucy Ward, political correspondent. Government moves to allow same-sex couples the right to adopt children may be blocked in a House of Lords vote tomorrow. Opponents argue that reform would undermine marriage and risk moving children from institutional c
- http://politics.guardian.co.uk/lords/story/0,9061,812047,00.html

Guardian: Peers reject adoption by gays
- Patrick Wintour, chief political correspondent. A Conservative-inspired rebellion yesterday voted to ban same sex couples from adopting by 196 to 162, despite a plea from the gay peer Lord Waheed Alli to recognise the rights of gays to parent children, ma
- http://politics.guardian.co.uk/lords/story/0,9061,813228,00.html

Guardian: Clash looms over adoption bill
- The government today signalled that it aims to overturn last night's Lords vote blocking adoption by same-sex and unmarried couples, setting the scene for a fresh battle between the Commons and Lords.
- http://politics.guardian.co.uk/lords/story/0,9061,813597,00.html

Guardian: M'lud, meet Charlie, my grandson
- Peter Preston. Stick with people, not percentages. Stick with what people do, the way they are, the way they relate and care: not with the narrow guardians of prescribed propriety. I'm sick of the nastiness of "them" and "us". I'm sick
- http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,815952,00.html

Guardian: Tory leader fends off gay adoption policy revolt
- Nicholas Watt, political correspondent. Iain Duncan Smith has moved to fend off a damaging revolt by Tory modernisers by issuing a private message that they should feel free to defy party policy on gay couples adopting children.
- http://www.guardian.co.uk/guardianpolitics/story/0,3605,824505,00.html

Guardian: John Bercow's resignation letter
- Full text of John Bercow's resignation letter sent to Iain Duncan Smith
- http://politics.guardian.co.uk/conservatives/story/0,9061,829826,00.html

BBC: Tory splits laid bare in adoption vote
- A number of high-profile Tory MPs, including Michael Portillo, defy party orders and back plans to allow unmarried couples to adopt children.
- http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/2401135.stm

BBC: Tory resigns over adoption vote
- John Bercow resigns from the shadow cabinet as he and Michael Portillo prepare to defy Tory whips by voting to let unmarried couples adopt.
- http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/2396213.stm

Guardian: Tory rebel accuses MPs of ignorance
- Nicholas Watt and John Carvel. John Bercow, the arch Tory moderniser, yesterday mounted a passionate defence of his decision to resign from the shadow cabinet over his party's opposition to gay couples adopting children. Speaking in a long Commons debate,
- http://www.guardian.co.uk/guardianpolitics/story/0,3605,830278,00.html

Guardian: Tories fail adoption test
- Leader. What was at stake in last night's vote, which comfortably restored the clause, removed by the Lords, allowing unmarried couples to adopt, was the new caring image that the Conservatives had striven so hard to project at their annual conference las
- http://www.guardian.co.uk/leaders/story/0,3604,830060,00.html

Guardian: Portillo in Tory revolt on adoption
- Iain Duncan Smith faced an open revolt against his leadership of the Tory party last night when Michael Portillo and Kenneth Clarke led a group of eight high profile Conservative MPs who defied a three-line whip on the touchstone issue of gay adoption. A
- http://www.guardian.co.uk/guardianpolitics/story/0,3605,830149,00.html

Guardian: Examine your consciences, social conservatives told in adoption debate
- Nicholas Watt, political correspondent. In a long, passionate debate, Michael Foster, father of two adopted children and MP for Hastings and Rye, warned that young children would continue to "languish in care" if adoption remained restricted to
- http://www.guardian.co.uk/guardianpolitics/story/0,3605,830135,00.html

BBC: View from the Tory grassroots
- The reaction from Conservative Party members across the UK to Iain Duncan Smith's appeal for unity after the adoption vote. Video clips from IDS, Ann Widdecombe, Francis Maude and Andrew Marr.
- http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/2406083.stm

Times: Peers back adoption by unmarried couples
- Greg Hurst, parliamentary correspondent. Peers cleared the way last night for unmarried couples to become eligible to adopt children jointly after an attempt led by the Conservative front bench to block change was defeated.
- http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,172-470850,00.html

Telegraph: Scandal of the children denied homes with adoptive parents
- Sheila Lawlor. The crisis in adoption has nothing to do with the controversy about granting gay couples the right to adopt.
- http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2002/11/06/do0601.xml

Guardian: Lords back gay adoption rights
- Patrick Wintour, chief political correspondent. Campaigners for homosexual rights unexpectedly triumphed last night in the House of Lords when peers voted by 215 to 184, a majority of 21, to give homosexual and unmarried heterosexual couples the right to
- http://politics.guardian.co.uk/lords/story/0,9061,834341,00.html

BBC: MP attacks Tory adoption stance
- Liberal Democrat health spokesman and MP for Oxford West and Abingdon, Dr Evan Harris, said Tory pronouncements showed the party was failing to modernise.
- http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2409889.stm