Church's view on same sex adoption?

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I recently just found out that Paul Ryan now supports same sex adoption. This got me thinking about whether or not the Church has an official view on the matter of same sex adoption.
 
“As experience has shown, the absence of sexual complementarity in these unions creates obstacles in the normal development of children who would be placed in the care of such persons. They would be deprived of the experience of either fatherhood or motherhood. Allowing children to be adopted by persons living in such unions would actually mean doing violence to these children, in the sense that their condition of dependency would be used to place them in an environment that is not conducive to their full human development. This is gravely immoral and in open contradiction to the principle, recognized also in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, that the best interests of the child, as the weaker and more vulnerable party, are to be the paramount consideration in every case.”

Source: vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_con_cfaith_doc_20030731_homosexual-unions_en.html

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Nonsense. Same sex couples can and do raise wonderful, well-balanced children.
 
YosefYosep said:
I recently just found out that Paul Ryan now supports same sex adoption. This got me thinking about whether or not the Church has an official view on the matter of same sex adoption.
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It is moral violence and should not happen.
 
ZRaffles said:
Nonsense. Same sex couples can and do raise wonderful, well-balanced children.
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Posing as parents does not make one parents. What is wonderful and well balanced? Having two men acting like father and mother? That is preposterous.
 
ZRaffles said:
Nonsense. Same sex couples can and do raise wonderful, well-balanced children.
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A child has a right to a mother and a father, if circumstances come along were its not possible to ensure this for the child, we should give them the support they deserve (child benefits for single parents for example) but to deliberately put the child in a situation where they lack a proper family unit is extremely immoral.

They actually make same-sex couples a priority over a man and a woman in adoption by the way, they call it “positive discrimination”. Way to compromise the rights of the child!
 
So the Church’s view is no, same sex couples should not be allowed to raise children because it provides improper consolation for their children?
 
Is it EVER permissible? Like a baby born with HIV who would otherwise just die in an orphanage without proper medical care?
 
When in the history of the world would any sane person propose that children be left in the custody of same sex people as if this were a family and healthy and moral?
 
fix said:
When in the history of the world would any sane person propose that children be left in the custody of same sex people as if this were a family and healthy and moral?
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I wonder why people are skeptical of the claim that Catholics “love the sinner but hate the sin”.
 
ngill09 said:
I wonder why people are skeptical of the claim that Catholics “love the sinner but hate the sin”.
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Because they automatically construe any claim that sin is actually bad not just on some ethereal plane that doesn’t really impact the real world, but here and now, as an attack on the sinner.

Seriously, the claim that children should not be raised by people who by their very lifestyles are claiming that bad is good is simply common sense. Now, I realize that by saying this I risk the indignant “homosexual relationships are nothing like ___” responses that ignore the actual argument at hand (wonder why the homosexual advocacy group is sometimes portrayed as being driven by blind emotionalism), but consider: would you want to let someone who repeatedly engaged in bestiality with his dog, was proud of this, and made that knowledge public adopt? People who were engaged in polygamy?

If you answer “no,” and yet support adoption by same sex couples, then chances are that you only disagree with us on the whether the gay lifestyle is bad, not on the fact that people who live their lives in a constant state of not only calling a terrible thing good, but of saying that is the same as one of the best things, shouldn’t adopt. Which would then make any indignation of this type irrational, as it is clearly not a case of hating the sinner, but of recognizing that sin is sin and not wanting to put children in a position where they will be constantly told that sin is not only not sin, but a great and wonderful thing.
 
It really is a strange world we inhabit when the idea that a child deserves and needs a mother is seen as a radical and bigoted concept.

“Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.” William Makepeace Thackeray.
 
ngill09 said:
I wonder why people are skeptical of the claim that Catholics “love the sinner but hate the sin”.
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Truth is hate to those who hate truth.

The people who are skeptical of what you claim are those who do not view the gravity of the situation as it is. To them it is simply false emotionalism that rule their consciences.
 
Iron_Donkey said:
Because they automatically construe any claim that sin is actually bad not just on some ethereal plane that doesn’t really impact the real world, but here and now, as an attack on the sinner.

Seriously, the claim that children should not be raised by people who by their very lifestyles are claiming that bad is good is simply common sense. Now, I realize that by saying this I risk the indignant “homosexual relationships are nothing like ___” responses that ignore the actual argument at hand (wonder why the homosexual advocacy group is sometimes portrayed as being driven by blind emotionalism), but consider: would you want to let someone who repeatedly engaged in bestiality with his dog, was proud of this, and made that knowledge public adopt? People who were engaged in polygamy?

If you answer “no,” and yet support adoption by same sex couples, then chances are that you only disagree with us on the whether the gay lifestyle is bad, not on the fact that people who live their lives in a constant state of not only calling a terrible thing good, but of saying that is the same as one of the best things, shouldn’t adopt. Which would then make any indignation of this type irrational, as it is clearly not a case of hating the sinner, but of recognizing that sin is sin and not wanting to put children in a position where they will be constantly told that sin is not only not sin, but a great and wonderful thing.
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Next time I see an anti-gay marriage advocate complain about being accused of bigotry, I’ll just point them to this thread. Seriously, do you actually think this is a sane argument?
 
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