RE: Christian couple told they can't adopt due to their views on homosexuality.
March 3, 2011 at 6:07 am
(This post was last modified: March 3, 2011 at 6:13 am by theVOID.)
(March 1, 2011 at 10:22 am)FaithNoMore Wrote:(February 28, 2011 at 1:03 pm)theVOID Wrote: So no pentecostals can adopt either? What about Evangelists? Mormons?Fight fire with fire.
Loving the authoritarianism guys...
In this case it's more "Fight bigotry with bigotry", not something I could support.
(March 1, 2011 at 1:12 pm)Skipper Wrote: So we should let racists foster children Adrian? Nazis? After all peoples beliefs "should be protected under the law". This was a couple that clearly stated they couldn't tell a child it was acceptable to be gay, so as far as they are concerned being homosexual is unacceptable, this is something we shouldn't be teaching kids in the same way we shouldn't be teaching them that it's wrong to be black or Jewish. Besides, this case has nothing to do with government. It's the courts.
Refusing to tell a child that it is acceptable to be gay isn't automatically being bigoted, there is still the option that they refuse to talk about it.
Quote:Again, like I said, this is anti-homophobic not Anti-Christian. I have no problem with religious people fostering or adopting as long as they don't take the parts of their book that teach intolerance or hatred and other dated views that are not compatible with a modern society and push them on the child that is in their care.
What if it was an Atheist couple teaching their adopted children than religious people are deluded idiots?
(March 1, 2011 at 9:22 pm)Moros Synackaon Wrote: The government isn't forcing them to do anything.
It is just refusing to grant them a privilege.
Adoption is a privilege. Not a right.
Stop being such a child.
The government is telling them that their particular refusal to tell the child that it was acceptable to be gay negates their ability to be good parents and thus they are refused the ability to adopt, regardless of the very real possibility that these people could otherwise be great parents.
They DID NOT say that they would raise the child to be homophobic, only that they would not present any positive attitudes towards gays.
MOST Catholics would be of the opinion that being gay is not a positive thing and subsequently wouldn't teach their children that, should we prevent all of them from adopting too? If we did we would do far more harm than good.
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