I am not sure that follows. Lots of great people have come out of orphanages - and orphanages secondarily serve as stark reminders for us on a range of topics. The presence and power of true charity, the infinite value of all life, second chances, safety nets, the positiveness of humans, our own adoption as sons of God.
It follows if we are judging by the criteria of what parental roles a child has in their life (I’m assuming all else is held equal). There will always be great people that come from orphanages while some not so great people come from two parent households, I agree. But that fact is a bit of a red herring.
Right, that’s probably a dangerous set of criteria to “buy” from the world. Even the term “roles” is loaded with modern day psychobabble. We don’t even realize it. We buy the words and then build our thinking around the lightweight “research” associated with these terms. Most of the role language oozed up from sociology and psychology departments in the 60s, 70s, etc.
Recent studies have shown that it actually has to do with hormones.
Actually some scientists are reported to have concluded that some people are born gay; and some scientists have not concluded this.
That’s not true and that’s not the only issue. Even if nothing changes on that issue, every little thing you do still changes something…
…so I suggest you re-read your own post and think about it. Obviously I’m challenging you here, but I don’t mean to be snippy. I mean to sincerely invite you to think about what you said in your post and to think about what it represents as a statement about how we are supposed to conduct ourselves and what the point of our actions (including words) is supposed to be.So before you get snippy with me again, I suggest you think about I said. Thanks.
No, it’s not true. There are plenty of lesbians who would love it if they could get their eggs to join together to make a child. It is *not *the thought of producing their own child that disgusts them.
Well that’s a difficult empirical question. But I think you’re wrong about no parental role being filled in an orphanage. I’m sure that in many cases orphanages do a much better job of providing care to children than parents do. The point, however, is simply that if we are placing children for adoption, we ought to *prefer *to place them in a stable home with a mother and a father. I don’t see why that should be controversial.
Yes, God has the power to do anything. But would God bless a sinful union? God would never direct humans to sin nor bless their sinfulness.
the funding for the foster system is based on the number of kids in the system. It is not in the foster system’s best interest to matriculate children out of it till they are 18. Courts do not make it easy to end parental rights. Many of these kids should have been removed from their situations as infants. Again, the system works overtime to keep parents and kids together, even when the kids are living in a foster home.
Nature does not intend people to be born blind, but some are. They are born with eyes that don’t work correctly. So are you saying that people who are born blind are the norm just because they exist?
Do you mean to say that pedophiles aren’t born that way? That they have a normal sexual attraction that is perverted by ‘life experience’? Is there documented proof of this? What about a pedophile who says he has always been turned on by prepubescent children? Are you saying if a pedophile isn’t born that way, they be cured of their disordered attactions? Isn’t that what the psychiatric association told the Catholic Bishops 40 or more years ago? that pedophiles can be ‘cured’ with therapy?
Homosexuals are not discriminated against by the marriage laws. They are free to marry just like anyone else and many have. There are many cases of homosexual men married to women and lesbians married to men. They have the same right to marry as any man or woman who is of legal age, not already married, and not a close blood relative.
What makes homosexuals different from pedophiles, sadomasochists, etc is that we have at least some evidence to support the idea that homosexuality could be attributed in part or whole to biological factors, while we have no such evidence to support a biological connection to pedophilia, sadomasochism, and so forth.
You think Id post something without thinking about it first?
Right here! Too bad it won’t happen.
Yeah I agree. Like I said, we’ll have to wait and see.
As one accursed with same-sex attractions, I deny that it is my “very nature” to have sexual relations with other men.
Fortunately God doesn’t say that. You can not got to hell for who you are. You only go to hell if you lead an unrepentant, sinful life and reject Jesus as your savior.