Howdy! :tiphat:
Ya i know. I just dont like to let a potentially good debate slip by.
I couldn’t debate last night, (parental duties and all) It’s so very tempting to address your other posts and debate now, but I feel a stronger need to make sure the original poster can present the Catholic perspective clearly on this issue. Your pressence in this thread can be very helpful in pointing out any errors in our logic.
Now for some of my random thoughts on this topic.
Biggest point: children are a gift. No one is “entitled” to be a parent. The Catholic church teaches that children are “the supreme gift of marriage.”
Some people are naturally infertile through physical defects. They often discover their infertility after living through disappointment and heartbreak for years while trying to concieve. Frequently after a husband and wife have tried for years to have a baby of their own, they turn to adoption.
Some sexual acts are naturally infertile, not because the people themselves are infertile or physically defective, but because the
acts are. People know from the onset that both male and female parts are needed to make a baby. Based on biology, homosexual couples know from the onset they can not create a child together.
As I wrote earlier, no one is “entitled” to a child". Viewing a child as an entitlement detracts from the dignity of the child, turning the child into a sort of possession or accessory.
With all else equal, children do best with both a mother and a father. Humans knew this instictively for years, but now some ask for research to “prove it”. Research is out there to prove this, so it might be helpful to include a bit in your argument.
The biggest problem that I see with homosexual adoption is that it places a child in the artificially created possission of denying that child of either a mother or a father.
Some argue that men and women are essentially the same and therefore the child doesn’t need mom and dad, but
the irony is that homosexuality itself bears witness to the argument that men and women are not the same. If men and women are the same, then why does a homosexual man prefer men? If men and women are the same, why does a homosexual woman prefer women? Some have asked if we think they would choose to be homosexual, trying to make the point they were born that way. Well, if they were born that way, then they also were born
knowing that there is some difference between men and women. I believe our differences as men and women create the ideal environment for raising children.
Oh, I’d love to stay and share more random thoughts, (or better organize the thoughts already presented) but duty calls. I’d hoped to dig out a great quote by Christopher West who wrote something about how when we argue about sex, we are really arguing about how we view the meaning of life. Thise really is an argument about the meaning of life, the meaning of love, the meaning of family.
emphasis mine)
