UK Catholic Bishops Compromise on Gay Adoption Leads to Charges of Hypocrisy

[childofmary1143]

lifesite.net/ldn/2007/mar/07032304.html

 

[Spirithound]

Such are the consequences for fasting in the cafeteria of Catholicism.

 

[Dale_M]

n late January, while the Catholic Church in Britain was making headlines objecting to the Sexual Orientation Regulations on behalf of Catholic adoption agencies, Archbishop Vincent Gerard Nichols of Birmingham let it slip in an interview with the BBC that British Catholic agencies had been adopting children to homosexual singles for years. The only objection, he said, was to placing children with gay couples.

This seems acceptable. If a person is single and chaste, his or her sexual orientation doesn’t matter. But in the case of a homosexual couple, it seems likely they are engaging in mortal sin.

Catholic adoption agencies also place children with unmarried but cohabiting heterosexual couples, despite clear and even more accepted precepts against such arrangements.

Sad. Very sad. Yes, its inconsistent and unjustified.

 

[chevalier]

That’s what the world does to you if you compromise with it. But we all do that, it’s not just the bishops here or there.

 

[rlg94086]

This seems acceptable. If a person is single and chaste, his or her sexual orientation doesn’t matter. But in the case of a homosexual couple, it seems likely they are engaging in mortal sin.

I disagree Dale. Basically, what you are saying is that homosexuals should adopt before they cohabitate. There is no requirement mentioned or reliable test to see if they are living a chaste lifestyle.

Sad. Very sad. Yes, its inconsistent and unjustified.

I agree. Catholic adoption agencies should only allow married couples to adopt IMO.

 

[Dale_M]

I disagree Dale. Basically, what you are saying is that homosexuals should adopt before they cohabitate. There is no requirement mentioned or reliable test to see if they are living a chaste lifestyle. .

Point taken, but then there is no way to say that about single heterosexuals either. So should we simply do away with single parent adoption?

 

[rlg94086]

Point taken, but then there is no way to say that about single heterosexuals either. So should we simply do away with single parent adoption?

That’s basically what I said at the end of my last post:

Catholic adoption agencies should only allow married couples to adopt IMO.

This seems consistent with the belief that a mother and father are best for the raising of a child.

I am torn on this issue. I am not an absolutist when it comes to gay adoption. With harder adoption cases, I know that adoption agencies have allowed gay couples to adopt - abused older children, disabled children, etc. There are fewer parents willing to take these children, so I have difficulty saying that they are better off in an institution.

However, if any Christian adoption agency wishes to abide by the tenets of their religion and limit adoption to heterosexuals, I don’t believe the government should step in and require them to do otherwise.

 

[Lance]

The UK bishops would have done well to read their own Sir Walter Scott who said, “Oh, what tangled webs we weave, When we first practice to deceive.”