Gay adoption

[gardenswithkids]

Would you object to a single man or a single woman adopting?

Different topic. If it was a single family member, (ie parents die and an aunt offers to raise the children) I can see adoption. Generally speaking, I think adoption agencies should look for a stable home with both mother and father.

This is a hard topic tho especially for college students these days…

I think this is a hard topic because many are already denied the chance to live with both their mother and father, through divorce or single motherhood. I am fully aware that while we discuss the need for both mother and father, many heterosexuals fail to provide that to their own biological children.

Earlier in the thread some brought up other Catholic teachings on chastity. Those teachings connect with this topic because they hold all accountable. But our teachings don’t just stop at personal accountability. We believe Jesus Christ died and rose again to make us part of God’s family. We can be the adopted sons and daughters of God. He extends this offer to the divorced, and the children of divorce, to the homosexual and heterosexual. God invites all of us to a life of redemption in Christ, and He redeems our whole being, including our sexuality. Contrary to the opinion of those who think humans must act on every sexual urges, chastity is possible. If we act on our every urge, then we become slaves to our urges. Catholic teachings help free us from such slavery and instead offer to us a better way to live. That means a better way of life for both us and our children.

 

[BryPGuy89]

Different topic. If it was a single family member, (ie parents die and an aunt offers to raise the children) I can see adoption. Generally speaking, I think adoption agencies should look for a stable home with both mother and father.
I think this is a hard topic because many are already denied the chance to live with both their mother and father, through divorce or single motherhood. I am fully aware that while we discuss the need for both mother and father, many heterosexuals fail to provide that to their own biological children.

Earlier in the thread some brought up other Catholic teachings on chastity. Those teachings connect with this topic because they hold all accountable. But our teachings don’t just stop at personal accountability. We believe Jesus Christ died and rose again to make us part of God’s family. We can be the adopted sons and daughters of God. He extends this offer to the divorced, and the children of divorce, to the homosexual and heterosexual. God invites all of us to a life of redemption in Christ, and He redeems our whole being, including our sexuality. Contrary to the opinion of those who think humans must act on every sexual urges, chastity is possible. If we act on our every urge, then we become slaves to our urges. Catholic teachings help free us from such slavery and instead offer to us a better way to live. That means a better way of life for both us and our children.

wow…

 

[fix]

I completely agree.
I am currently studying to become a Clinical Child Psychologist.
I have conducted extensive research on gay parenting.
Current research has concluded that homosexual parents are no less fit than Heterosexual parents to take care of children.

And these studies decide what health means and what good means?

Furthermore, children that grow up with gay parents grow up healthy and loved, similar to children that grow up with heterosexual parents.

Again, we ought to define our terms before we draw conclsuions.

Just recently one of my professor told me a story about Two gay men adopting a child positive with HIV.
These two gay men decided to adopt him even though they knew the child’s condition. They took care of him over a decade and later the child was tested for HIV and the result came out negative. But the government decided to take the child away from the gay couple because they believed it was unhealthy for the child.

Well, if a professor said it then we must conclude it is Gospel truth?

 

[MikeinSD]

Instead of talking ABOUT gay parents, why don’t you talk TO them. See what they have to say.
familieslikemine.com/
gayparentmag.com/
familypride.org/
milepost1.com/~gaydad/
2dads.org/

 

[setter]

Instead of talking ABOUT gay parents, why don’t you talk TO them. See what they have to say.
familieslikemine.com/
gayparentmag.com/
familypride.org/
milepost1.com/~gaydad/
2dads.org/

Gay agenda propaganda.

 

[St_John]

I’m not in favor of gay parents as a first choice to adopt. However, there are children whose futures are totally bleak, with the prospects of finding a stable home dismal. In that case gay parents might provide them a better life with some hope.

 

[perez639]

Granted that a homosexual couple might give a decent home to a child in many ways… **However, since they would be living in a sinful relationship, contrary to the natural law and the laws of bible and church, they would be providing a bad example to the child and raising him/her to approve of such behavior. ** One must accept the Catholic teaching here. If they do not then the opposing side can come up with many counter-arguments.

Peace be with you all,

Regis University Student

 

[BryPGuy89]

Granted that a homosexual couple might give a decent home to a child in many ways… **However, since they would be living in a sinful relationship, contrary to the natural law and the laws of bible and church, they would be providing a bad example to the child and raising him/her to approve of such behavior. ** One must accept the Catholic teaching here. If they do not then the opposing side can come up with many counter-arguments.

Peace be with you all,

Regis University Student

Have you ever met a child raised by gay parents, they tend to resent them and their lifestyle. They may be ok with gay people, but not approval usually.

 

[perez639]

BryPGuy89,

Yes i have a friend in college who was raised by two gay men. He too is now gay, and planning on marrying a 45 year old man and he is only 21. He is not at all ashamed of how he was raised and is an avid fighter of homosexual marraiges as well.

I just think that by feeding this type of behavior by permiting gay adoption we are going to increase the amount of people who will take part in this sort of behavior due to nurture NOT nature which explicitly shows that smtg is different biologically in the mind of a homosexual individual.

Peace Be with you all,

Regis University Student

 

[gardenswithkids]

Instead of talking ABOUT gay parents, why don’t you talk TO them.

Please note, this thread topic was not about homosexual parenting per se but about homosexual adoption. In adoption, the child was born to biological parents and then placed with adoptive parents for some reason.

Every biological child of a homosexual parent has a both a mother and father, but if the parent of the opposite sex isn’t involved in that child’s life then that is really a problem apart from homosexuality. (The Church teaches against casual divorce, sex outside of marriage, IVF, egg and sperm donation, surrogacy, etc. and those teachings apply to all. Those are also separate issues from this thread topic.)

 

[setter]

I’m not in favor of gay parents as a first choice to adopt. However, there are children whose futures are totally bleak, with the prospects of finding a stable home dismal. In that case gay parents might provide them a better life with some hope.

How does a Catholic justify abandoning an innocent child with two people aping a legitimate union in a gravely immoral, instinsically disordered, sexually-based living arrangement? Why not just throw the child to the lions as far as stacking the cards against the child’s soul and psychological welfare?

I do not intend to comes across as rude, but too often folks are willing to overlook or minimize the evil and disorder at hand and offer up a child to the devil’s playmates, i.e., those person’s so indoctrinated and committed to freely embracing and actively promoting a gravely sinful lifestyle.

 

[perez639]

Well Said Setter! The truth hurts!

So many have become passive when it comes to the problems with what homosexuals want. They want to get to the minds of the innocent (children) so that their way of life will be more accepted!! It is the plan of the devil.

Peace Be with you all,

Regis University Student

 

[nydas]

BryPGuy89,

Yes i have a friend in college who was raised by two gay men. He too is now gay, and planning on marrying a 45 year old man and he is only 21. He is not at all ashamed of how he was raised and is an avid fighter of homosexual marraiges as well.

I just think that by feeding this type of behavior by permiting gay adoption we are going to increase the amount of people who will take part in this sort of behavior due to nurture NOT nature which explicitly shows that smtg is different biologically in the mind of a homosexual individual.

Peace Be with you all,

Regis University Student

Straight parents produce gay children. So i guess straight parents should not be allowed to adopt.

 

[perez639]

If thats all you got from my post you really missed the point and came up with quite the sarcastic response.

From a biological standpoint we are aware that smtg in nature created that inclination. HOWEVER, with gay parenting the nurturing of that child in the environment that they are in might make them more apt to engaging in that sort of activity.

And after rereading your post I dont even get ur point

Peace be with you all,

Regis University Student

 

[nydas]

If thats all you got from my post you really missed the point and came up with quite the sarcastic response.

From a biological standpoint we are aware that smtg in nature created that inclination. HOWEVER, with gay parenting the nurturing of that child in the environment that they are in might make them more apt to engaging in that sort of activity.

And after rereading your post I dont even get ur point

Peace be with you all,

Regis University Student

I was just being a samrt-butt. I wasnt expecting anyone to take that post seriously

 

[St_John]

I’m not in favor of gay adoption, unless the child has not a chance of a better situation. Some children don’t have much chances, having been terribly scarred by their bio parents, and no one will take them in. Also, there are plenty of children exposed to sin, I don’t put homosexuality into a special catogory, worse than any other sexual sin.

 

[MikeinSD]

I was just being a samrt-butt. I wasnt expecting anyone to take that post seriously

It’s something you’ll get used to here

 

[BryPGuy89]

Well Said Setter! The truth hurts!

So many have become passive when it comes to the problems with what homosexuals want. They want to get to the minds of the innocent (children) so that their way of life will be more accepted!! It is the plan of the devil.

Peace Be with you all,

Regis University Student

That hurts. I have SSA, though I think you were being sarcastic.

 

[MikeinSD]

That hurts. I have SSA, though I think you were being sarcastic.

They are not being sarcastic. They are being very serious. They believe a supernatural entity, the source of all evil, animates the will of gay men…
“devil’s playmates, i.e., those person’s so indoctrinated and committed to freely embracing and actively promoting a gravely sinful lifestyle”
Of course all means necessary must be used to fight the devil’s playmates. And what use are man-made laws when God’s warriors are fighting Satan himself?

Watch your back.

 

[gardenswithkids]

That hurts. I have SSA,

We really must distinguish between those whose who struggle with SSA yet desire to live a chaste life, verses those who promote the agenda that claims homosexual acts are acceptible.

They believe a supernatural entity, the source of all evil, animates the will of gay men…

I believe fully in free will. Homosexuals are not compelled to act on their attraction to the same sex. Those force of habit may make it difficult for will to override habit, but that’s true for every sin and bad habit.

Contrary to what some may think, I do not view homosexuals really much different from myself. I used contraception for many years. When I speak of the link between chastity, the pro-creation of children in marriage, etc. this is something that I personally struggled with. I see the link between sex and children because I have the advantage of seeing my children who were born after my husband and I stopped using contraception.

BryPGuy89, I admire that you struggle–keep struggling. Chastity is worth the fight.