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djm4_ljThe head of the Catholic Church asks for Catholic adoption agencies to be allowed to refuse to place children with gay couples on religious grounds.
Extract from his full letter:
"We place significant emphasis on marriage, as it is from the personal union of a man and a woman that new life is born and it is within the loving context of such a relationship that a child can be welcomed and nurtured. Marital love involves an essential complementarity of male and female.
We recognise that some children, particularly those who have suffered abuse and neglect, may well benefit from placement with a single adoptive parent.
However, Catholic teaching about the foundations of family life, a teaching shared not only by other Christian Churches but also other faiths, means that Catholic adoption agencies would not be able to recruit and consider homosexual couples as potential adoptive parents.
We believe it would be unreasonable, unnecessary and unjust discrimination against Catholics for the government to insist that if they wish to continue to work with local authorities, Catholic adoption agencies must act against the teaching of the Church and their own consciences by being obliged in law to provide such a service."
I see nothing in what's said there (beyond simple bigotry) that makes single parents acceptable where gay parents are not.
I say:
1) TTBOMK, you don't speak for the Catholics I know
2) If your adoption agencies want to place their bigotry over the welfare of the children, possibly it wouldn't be a 'tragedy' if they were to close.
Extract from his full letter:
"We place significant emphasis on marriage, as it is from the personal union of a man and a woman that new life is born and it is within the loving context of such a relationship that a child can be welcomed and nurtured. Marital love involves an essential complementarity of male and female.
We recognise that some children, particularly those who have suffered abuse and neglect, may well benefit from placement with a single adoptive parent.
However, Catholic teaching about the foundations of family life, a teaching shared not only by other Christian Churches but also other faiths, means that Catholic adoption agencies would not be able to recruit and consider homosexual couples as potential adoptive parents.
We believe it would be unreasonable, unnecessary and unjust discrimination against Catholics for the government to insist that if they wish to continue to work with local authorities, Catholic adoption agencies must act against the teaching of the Church and their own consciences by being obliged in law to provide such a service."
I see nothing in what's said there (beyond simple bigotry) that makes single parents acceptable where gay parents are not.
I say:
1) TTBOMK, you don't speak for the Catholics I know
2) If your adoption agencies want to place their bigotry over the welfare of the children, possibly it wouldn't be a 'tragedy' if they were to close.
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Date: 2007-01-23 01:12 pm (UTC)PLease tell me what this means...my brain keeps reading it wrong.
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Date: 2007-01-23 01:19 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2007-01-23 02:28 pm (UTC)Which sounds much more fun...
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Date: 2007-01-23 02:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-01-23 01:20 pm (UTC)Not to mention they don't ask whether applicants have ever committed adultery, got divorced, whick OK might be in the past, but what about coveting their neighbour's asses/cars, profaning the Sabbath, etc?
If they insisted their clients were Catholic, I'd understand, but that stance on single parents makes no sense.
An even more worrying aspect is 1/3 of children with special needs are handled via Catholic adoption agencies.
As for 'essential complementarity' - wtf???
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Date: 2007-01-23 02:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-01-23 02:41 pm (UTC)But I do think it's silly that they don't seem to care about whether the parents have committed other mortal sins.
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Date: 2007-01-23 03:28 pm (UTC)Who funds these adoption agencies anyway?
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Date: 2007-01-23 03:37 pm (UTC)Yeah, I said in my previous comment that I think it's silly not to be checking out the couples for other mortal sins. It's not particularly clear why couples have to conform to this aspect of Catholic belief but not others. I would be a lot more sympathetic to their position if they wanted only to place children with committed Catholic couples.
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Date: 2007-01-23 03:57 pm (UTC)That bit is particularly bizarre. What about those who have little interest in gender roles? There are a lot of happy opposite-sex marriages that don't have much complementarity between the masculine and the feminine; it can't be that essential.
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Date: 2007-01-23 07:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-01-23 01:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-01-23 01:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-01-23 02:15 pm (UTC)Screw them! They blew it. They in no way have any moral high ground on this issue.
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Date: 2007-01-23 02:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-01-23 02:32 pm (UTC)J
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Date: 2007-01-23 06:18 pm (UTC)12-16 year old teenagers at the care of a catholic institution rape, abuse and "kill" (sorry, she "drowned") an homeless transexual and head of institution claims that "he" (the victim) had molested the children and, oh!, there was something there about homosexuals too, what was it?
But surely this sort of things does not happen there, does it?
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Date: 2007-01-23 02:36 pm (UTC)Yes, actually.
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Date: 2007-01-23 02:43 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-01-23 02:47 pm (UTC)