Everyone is biased by something. If you mean able to critically view something, even those who adhere to the tenets of a faith can do that.
Obedience? What if you were a nazi soldier? Is obedience a virtue then? You have to be open minded to realize if the orders you are getting are wrong. Obedience is not a virtue unless you are a dog.
Yes this canard is often trotted out to support same sex couples adopting. There a shortage of adoptable babies and children with people paying tens of thousands to adopt overseas. One of my friends is an adoptoin agency that only places special needs children. She said they always have a “waiting list” of couples wanting to adopt.
As Catholics, it is a virtue. I’m sure you didn’t intend to label Catholics as dogs. You presume Catholics don’t examine history, 2000 years of teachings, and other factors label them as not open-minded. One can consider something with an open-mind and still see it as foolishness.
Its easy to dismiss abortions “because of rape and incest” like I did until I found a woman extremely close to me had an abortion after being raped. It can really put things into perspective.
Once again instead of actually speaking to the issue, you used words like “dismiss” when the point was that aborting 50million babies since Roe would hardly be justified by the few really tragic situations of rape. As with same sex pairs and their supporters claiming there are all of these starving orphans that would have no home without these courageous homosexuals taking them on, the reality is that there are more than enough married male/female couples wanting to adopt that standards do not need to be relaxed to allow the tiny fraction of such situations change the rules for the majority. Children need a mother and a father. If they are raised without one or the other, by absence, divorce or death, it impacts the child. Why go out of your way to allow children to be deliberately adopted into a less than optimal situation? BTW this is not simple “homophobia” although that’s the kneejerk response. I feel the same way about singles adopting or who creating children through IVF. They compromise the child for what IMO are generally very selfish reasons.
Yes, those who claim one is “open-minded” mean one agrees with them. That label is used as a cudgel on those who disagree.
Well that is an argument I can defend but that is not the point here.
Indeed.
What is truth?
Oh, that’s right. We can’t kill the perpetrator of the crime, but it’s ok to kill the other victim.
No it can’t. Unless you let it. Emotions should not rule our lives or make us immoral.
So then i take it youre okay with someone murdering you in your sleep.
Well there is a whole lot of collateral damage in those cases. I have family, friends, etc. that would be effected by my death. But to me, there would be little difference. I would be living, wouldn’t know what was going on, and then it would all be over.
How about getting back to the thread. Based on your answers I believe you are pro homosexual adoptions. I maintain that given the many studies indicating that children are best raised by two parents who are married (man and woman) why should the government be able to force agencies to accept singles or two homosexuals as equivalent when there are many such traditional married couples looking to adopt?