What do the Bible have to say about gay adoptn? |

Contents:

• ADOPTN AGENCY SHOULD BE ABLE TO REJECT GAY UPL, TMP ADMISTRATN ARGU
• SHOULD GAY MARRIAGE BE LEGAL?
• WHAT DO THE BIBLE HAVE TO SAY ABOUT GAY ADOPTN?
• GAY ADOPTN: HOW MON IS GAY ADOPTN AND IS LEGAL?
• LGBT ADOPTN: ARE GAYS ALLOWED TO ADOPT UNED STAT?
• AFTER YEARS OF PROGRS ON GAY RIGHTS, HOW DID THE US BEE SO ANTI-LGBTQ+?

ADOPTN AGENCY SHOULD BE ABLE TO REJECT GAY UPL, TMP ADMISTRATN ARGU

In the name of the “fay, ” same-sex “marriage” serv to validate not only such unns but the whole homosexual liftyle all s bisexual and transgenr variants. Homosexual activists argue that same-sex “marriage” is a civil rights issue siar to the stggle for racial equaly the 1960s. If homosexual “marriage” is universally accepted as the prent step sexual “eedom, ” what logil arguments n be ed to stop the next steps of ct, pedophilia, btialy, and other forms of unnatural behavr?

SHOULD GAY MARRIAGE BE LEGAL?

The railroadg of same-sex “marriage” on the Amerin people mak creasgly clear what homosexual activist Pl Varnell wrote the Chigo Free Prs:"The gay movement, whether we acknowledge or not, is not a civil rights movement, not even a sexual liberatn movement, but a moral revolutn aimed at changg people's view of homosexualy. Genis also teach how God punished Sodom and Gomorrah for the s of homosexualy: “The Lord raed down sulphuro fire upon Sodom and Gomorrah.

In tellectually opposg dividuals or anizatns promotg the homosexual agenda, our only tent is the fense of tradnal marriage, the fay, and the prec remnants of Christian civilizatn.

As practicg Catholics, we are filled wh passn and pray for those who stggle agast unrelentg and vlent temptatn to homosexual s. We pray also for the judg, legislators and ernment officials who one way or another take steps that favor homosexualy and same-sex “marriage.

WHAT DO THE BIBLE HAVE TO SAY ABOUT GAY ADOPTN?

To the arguments favor of homosexualy and same-sex “marriage” we rpond wh arguments based on right reason, natural law and Dive Revelatn. The Benefs of LGBT Adoptn (AKA same sex adoptn or gay adoptn)Ever sce the Supreme Court legalized gay marriage June of 2015, there has been an flux of LGBT upl gettg married and startg fai.

Beg raised an LGBT home do not make your child gay, jt as beg raised a heterosexual home do not make your child straight. As long as you meet the state requirements to adopt, you n move forward wh your adoptn stat allow gay adoptn for dividuals, married upl and upl a domtic unn. However, for unmarried upl who want to adopt a child (eher heterosexual or homosexual), ’s not always possible to do so jotly.

In many of the stat where gay adoptn was illegal for so long, was bee requirements were based on maral stat, not sexual orientatn. While is unnstutnal for married same-sex upl to be nied the right to adopt by a state agency, unfortunately, there are several stat which have passed laws agast gay adoptn based on relig eedom.

GAY ADOPTN: HOW MON IS GAY ADOPTN AND IS LEGAL?

This way, you n be rmed about your lol gay adoptn laws and any laws agast gay adoptn that might apply to your suatn. Texas, Jtice Anton Slia wrote, “Today’s opn dismantl the stcture of nstutnal law that has permted a distctn to be ma between heterosexual and homosexual unns, sofar as formal regnn marriage is ncerned. ” Senate Majory Lear Bill Frist has apparently taken the words to heart and has announced his support for a nstutnal amendment banng gay marriage.

As Robert Lerner noted his book No Basis: What the Studi Don’t Tell Us About Same Sex Parentg, most studi on same sex parentg do not al wh actual gay adoptn but rather the natural children of one same-sex partner, or children who are the rult of artificial sematn. One might reasonably argue that this means we should wa until more scientifilly sound studi are pleted before our society mak any cisn regardg gay adoptn. Yet by the time such studi are pleted, gay adoptn uld be firmly entrenched our society, makg very difficult to stop.

For all s likely shortgs fay-stcture, a gay adoptn would undoubtedly provi a far more stable environment than those alternativ. ”The latter argument c a recent Supreme Court se which the ernment tervened on behalf of baker Jack Phillips who refed to bake a weddg ke for a gay uple due to his relig beliefs. The anizatn argued that to provi the servic to gay upl vlated s nstutnal rights to ee relig exercise and ee speech.

LGBT ADOPTN: ARE GAYS ALLOWED TO ADOPT UNED STAT?

Over 21 percent of gay upl are raisg adopted children, pared wh 3 percent of straight upl, and nearly 3 percent of gay upl have foster children, pared wh 0. But the major groups ncerned wh children’s health do no oppose gay adoptns bee evince pots cisively that beg raised by same sex upl is not trimental to a child’s well beg. (The assertn that anizatns such a the Amerin Amy of Child and Adolcent Psychiatry, the Amerin Medil Associatn and the Natnal Associatn of Social Workers are eher timidated by or are the thralls of the “gay agenda” is spur.

Children may suffer fai for many reasons but beg raised by a gay dividual or uple is not, and of self, one of them.

AFTER YEARS OF PROGRS ON GAY RIGHTS, HOW DID THE US BEE SO ANTI-LGBTQ+?

Generally, though, love, re, stabily, nurturance and rpect are enough for a succsful upbrgg, regardls of whether is provid by those blogil nnected, heterosexual or homosexual upl or sgle parents.

US public opn had shifted signifintly over the years, om 27% approval of gay marriage 1996 to 55% 2015, the year beme legal throughout the Uned Stat, to 61% 2019. Proponents of legal gay marriage ntend that gay marriage bans are discrimatory and unnstutnal, and that same-sex upl should have accs to all the benefs enjoyed by different-sex upl. On July 25, 2014 Miami-Da County Circu Court Judge Sarah Zabel led Florida’s gay marriage ban unnstutnal and stated that the ban “serv only to hurt, to discrimate, to prive same-sex upl and their fai of equal digny, to label and treat them as send-class cizens, and to em them unworthy of participatn one of the fundamental stutns of our society.

The Amerin Psychologil Associatn, Amerin Psychiatric Associatn, and others nclud that legal gay marriage giv upl “accs to the social support that already facilat and strengthens heterosexual marriag, wh all of the psychologil and physil health benefs associated wh that support. A study found that same-sex married upl were “signifintly ls distrsed than lbian, gay, and bisexual persons not a legally regnized relatnship. A 2010 analysis found that after their stat had banned gay marriage, gay, lbian and bisexual people suffered a 37% crease mood disorrs, a 42% crease alhol-e disorrs, and a 248% crease generalized anxiety disorrs.

The Congrsnal Budget Office timated 2004 that ferally-regnized gay marriage would cut the budget fic by around $450 ln a year.

In July 2012 New York Cy Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced that gay marriage had ntributed $259 ln to the cy’s enomy jt a year sce the practice beme legal there July 2011. In 2012, the Williams Instute at the Universy of California at Los Angel (UCLA) found that the first five years after Massachetts legalized gay marriage 2004, same-sex weddg expendur (such as venue rental, weddg k, etc.

Relig stutns n cle to marry gay and lbian upl if they wish, but they should not dictate marriage laws for society at large. Gay marriage is a civil right protected by the US Constutn’s mments to liberty and equaly, and is an ternatnally regnized human right for all people.

Civil unns and domtic partnerships uld provi the protectns and benefs gay upl need whout changg the fn of marriage.

2016 printial ndidate and former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fra stated that civil unns are aquate as an equivalent to marriage: “Benefs are beg btowed to gay upl [ civil unns]… I believe we need to rpect those who believe that the word marriage has a spirual foundatn… Why n’t we rpect and tolerate that while at the same time sayg ernment nnot btow benefs unequally.