Adoption's Moral Implications

Adoption's Moral Implications

I’m no preacherman and less than qualified to be an arbiter of what’s moral in American society. I’m even less qualified to pass judgment and condemn immorality since that would be God’s prerogative. Is Anthony Weiner’s public display of his private parts immoral? He evidently doesn’t think so. Are gays adopting children acting morally? They seem to believe they are.

Who’s to say?

When our government takes active positions endorsing issues on which millions of Americans hold strong moral convictions, it would seem that people have both the right and responsibility to say something, to speak out. Such an issue is the question of whether children should be offered in adoption to avowed homosexuals, bi-sexuals, and transsexuals.

It’s incontestable that there are millions of American kids in desparate need of being welcomed into loving homes where they can be nurtured into adulthood as upstanding citizens who will lead happy, contented lives and contribute to society. What’s very disputable is whether those homes can be found with people whose private lives give rise to doubts as to their suitability for parenting.

Yes, we’re told that love makes a family and we’re told there are instances of gay parents who furnish stellar upbringing of adopted children but we’re told a lot of things. There is minimal information on how those kids fare later in life after growing up with two mommies or two daddies and a wealth of data that show one of each is most beneficial.

Current estimates indicate that 270,000 kids are living with same-sex couples; 65,000 are legally adopted. Would they be better off in foster care? That would depend on the gay care.

Celebrity homosexuals Neil Patrick Harris, Rosie O’Donnell, and Sir Elton John are among that latter group and they and their families get a great deal of press, and publicity, but what the future holds for those families is very much a mystery.

Less mysterious is what happens when the federal government intrudes itself into strictly local, social issues like adoption. Especially when that government is headed by the most “gay-friendly” president in American history, adoption devils are rooted in the details. . .
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