I must say, having watched from the sidelines, I have a lot of sympathy with Spock, who disagrees fundamentally with the principles and practice of homosexuality.
You do know of course exactly what gay men do to each other ? Exactly ? Calling it 'gay' does dilute the rather unsanitary facts in a fey and pretty word.
He is a little brusque, but the way the advanced liberal airy-fairy do-gooders have leapt upon him is pathetic. He doesn't like homosexuality, that is his right. Some of you people I am sure will eventually try to make it compulsory.
Same with the adoption thing. It is one thing to tolerate a couple's freedom to behave together and relate as they wish in private, it is quite another to change the whole way a society regards and raises its kids.