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SteveP
December 30th, 2011 | 11:42 am

The NYT article has: Tim Kee, a teacher in Marion, Ill., who was turned away by Catholic Charities three years ago when he and his longtime partner, Rick Wade, tried to adopt a child, said: “We’re both Catholic, we love our church, but Catholic Charities closed the door to us. To add insult to injury, my tax dollars went to provide discrimination against me.”

Rather interesting — the quoted outrage is over tax dollars rather than tithe dollars. Perhaps “love” does not entail support in real terms.

Blake
December 30th, 2011 | 4:48 pm

Rather interesting — the quoted outrage is over tax dollars rather than tithe dollars. Perhaps “love” does not entail support in real terms.

Or perhaps men and women ought to be supporting each other when they make babies together, instead of trying to pretend that children don’t suffer when they’re forced to pretend that having “two daddies” is just as good as having “two mommies”.

Think about it: if men and women actually supported each other – instead of treating babies like designer luxury items – maybe there wouldn’t be so many kids being abandoned and thus needing adoptive parents in the first place.

James
January 1st, 2012 | 2:58 pm

I must agree with you Blake. If someone’s looking to place blame in all of this, let’s recall that there would be no need for a single adoption agency if heterosexual parents weren’t abandoning their own children at the rate they are.

However, if you object to gay adoption because children are somehow deprived of a parent of a particular gender, do you also object to adoption to single parents (so long as they are single)? Does a Catholic agency have a moral imperative to deny adoption to a single parent? After all, both situations deprive a child of a parent of one gender or the other, yes? In addition, studies show that children definitely do not fare as well in single-parent homes as they do in homes with two same- or opposite-sex parents (in areas such as peer and social interactions, intellectual growth and personal integrity … crime is more frequently seen in children of single parents).

Blake
January 2nd, 2012 | 12:20 pm

However, if you object to gay adoption because children are somehow deprived of a parent of a particular gender, do you also object to adoption to single pareusnts (so long as they are single)?

Yes.

If you’re not ready to actually provide for the child’s needs, you’re not ready to be a parent.

It is not rational to assume that because adoption ‘works’ when we adhere to a “child’s best interest” standard, that adoption will continue to ‘work’ without such a standard.

Adoption is supposed to be about finding a good home for a needy child, not about finding a good child for a needy home.