He recognizes that there are many abandoned children who have yet to find homes. John McCain believes that in those situations that caring parental figures are better for the child than the alternative.
Wonder if McCain thinks of himself as a “caring parental figure” rather than a parent to his adopted daughter. In any event, I wouldn’t expect anybody who supported an Arizona constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriages, who told Jerry Falwell he would support a federal constitutional amendment against same-sex marriages, who supports “don’t ask, don’t tell” and who has consistently stated a position against civil unions to “believe in” adoption by gay people.
Of course, I’m not too surprised he’s not supportive of equal rights for gays and lesbians, since McCain apparently didn’t even know what the acronym stood for.