Question About Adoption

With the Massachusetts Supreme Court strongly mandating that homosexual marriages become normal practice in the Bay State, questions are now being asked about peripheral effects of the court's ruling. As an example, John Ray has posted an email he received from a reader, Eleanor Spreitzer, who asks:

"Are women who give up their children for adoption given the opportunity to chose [sic] that their children be adopted only by heterosexual couples or do they have no say in the fact that homosexual couples may adopt their children?"

Since there are fifty states, it wouldn't be surprising to have many, many answers to the question depending on the location the adoption took place. There also is a high level of confidentiality maintained throughout the process, so there's a possibility that not only would a person not have a say, but they additionally wouldn't know that their child was adopted by a homosexual couple. This would seem to be particularly true if the adoption was arranged through a private agency.