Contents:
- USCCB DID NOT CHANGE POLICY ON GAY ADOPTION
- CHURCH’S POSN ON GAY ADOPTN REMAS FIRM, ASSERTS ARCHDCE
- GAY ADOPTION
- THE ORTHODOX CHURCH’S ROLE RSIA’S ANTI-GAY LAWS
- CATHOLIC CHARI AND GAY ADOPTN
- RSIA ENACTS ANTI-GAY ADOPTN BAN
USCCB DID NOT CHANGE POLICY ON GAY ADOPTION
USCCB DID NOT CHANGE POLICY ON GAY ADOPTION – Catholic League. USCCB DID NOT CHANGE POLICY ON GAY ADOPTION. When to asssg the human digny of a person, the Catholic Church regards one’s sexual orientatn to be irrelevant: homosexuals and heterosexuals are equal the ey of God and the Catholic Church.
After some email exchang wh Bethany, Easter found that do not perm gays and lbians to be foster parents. On March 1, the New York Tim ran a story sayg Bethany has changed s policy and no longer exclus lbian and gay dividuals om participatg s foster re programs. In other words, the USCCB, followg the teachgs of the Catholic Church, rejects homosexual upl om adoptg a child.
Homosexual dividuals who are not a maral relatnship nnot be judged to havg vlated Church teachgs on sexualy anymore than a sgle heterosexual dividual would be who sought to adopt a child.
CHURCH’S POSN ON GAY ADOPTN REMAS FIRM, ASSERTS ARCHDCE
William Canny, the USCCB’s director of immigratn and refugee servic, explaed, “In realy, neher the USCCB’s relig beliefs nor s subgrant agreement wh BCS (Bethany Christian Servic) bars a sgle person wh a homosexual orientatn om servg as a foster parent by virtue of his or her orientatn. Cy of Philalphia sayg that Catholic foster re agenci n reject gay upl om adoptg children.
""We do not doubt that this tert is a weighty one, for '[o]ur society has e to the regnn that gay persons and gay upl nnot be treated as social outsts or as ferr digny and worth, '" Roberts wrote, quotg the 2018 se Masterpiece Cakhop v.
The spokman for the Archdce of Mexi Cy, Father Hugo Valmar, clarified this week that recent statements by the archdce's assistant director for rad and televisn did not reveal nflict wh the Church regardg homosexual adoptn. Cardal Juan Sandoval Iniguez of Guadalajara ma headl recently for accg the mayor of Mexi Cy of bribg the untry's Supreme Court jtic to le favor of same-sex marriage and gay adoptn. ” The prit add that the Catholic Church “do not reject homosexuals, but v them to seek salvatn.
GAY ADOPTION
He rejected claims that he suggted the Archdce of Mexi Cy supports gay adoptn. Aguilar explaed that he had prevly mentned to the media a se which he “met a homosexual person who raised a child. “I was quoted as sayg I knew numero gay upl who raised children who me out fe.
“The Church lov homosexuals and offers all the means for them to achieve salvatn. Much is already beg ma about Pope Francis’ opposn to gay adoptn when was at issue Argenta 2010.
THE ORTHODOX CHURCH’S ROLE RSIA’S ANTI-GAY LAWS
If you hear someone acce Pope Francis of hatg homosexuals, remd them: He’s not the only one who has qutned gay adoptn. Many homosexual men and women do, too.
At the huge marriage protts France, many voic the gay muny rallied on the si of children, and agast gay adoptn. Said one gay man, Jean-Pier:. I also rell terviewg homosexual activist John McKellar 2002.
At the time I terviewed him, he was print of Homosexuals Opposed to Pri Extremism (HOPE). There was an article the gay prs last year tled, ‘How to Stay Married and Still Be a Slut.
CATHOLIC CHARI AND GAY ADOPTN
The New York Tim 2010 said that this characterizatn of the homosexual liftyle was an “open secret” — half of San Francis’s gay marriag beme “open” relatnships wh a year. The children of homosexuals have add their voic to the chos qutng gay adoptn. This Natnal Catholic Register article lks others that give rourc for adult children of homosexual upl and requts that children’s voic be heard.
So Pope Francis isn’t nuts to oppose homosexual adoptn. Many homosexuals — and their kids — share his opn. Catholic agenci have been divid on how to handle requts for adoptn by homosexual upl.
In recent years, this divisn has been exacerbated by two opposg forc: On the one hand, ernments have begun requirg equal treatment for gay “parents”; on the other, the Vatin has ma very clear that is immoral to liberately place an adoptive child wh a same-sex uple. Rears will remember the sndal the archdc of both Boston and San Francis, which had to be told pot-blank by the Vatin to stop placg children wh homosexual applints. The same issue is beg bated England, where Parliament recently required adoptn agenci to provi equal treatment for gays.
RSIA ENACTS ANTI-GAY ADOPTN BAN
This is seen as a possible way to avoid homosexual placements, at least unls or until Great Bra regniz same-sex marriage. In fact, the largt Catholic adoptn agency England and Wal—the Catholic Children’s Society of Anl and Brighton, Portsmouth and Southwark (A&BSP)—has cid, wh the approval of the bishops who oversee the agency, to ply wh the law by ceasg to screen out homosexual applints for adoptn.
Make no mistake about , the placement of children wh gay parents is a ser stance of vlence agast children. Confn about one’s sexual inty is extremely paful, clatns to homosexual attractn are disorred, and nstant exposure to sexual affectn between homosexuals plac a child an tolerable posn wh rpect to his own sexual, moral, psychologil and social velopment. Placement of children wh gay upl is que simply a btaly.