The Bible has a clear opinion on homosexuality:
"You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination" (Leviticus 18:22)
That said, for you secularists who don't accept His word and are interested in condoning homosexuality, should gay men be able to adopt children?
I think children need a male role model to be psychologically healthy. But gay men belong to a very unsavory subculture where polygamy, drug use and anonymous group sex is common. And there is a lot of overlap with this subculture and pedophilia. Controversial issue. Your thoughts?
Is this a joke? The Bible proffers many things (including slavery and polygamy) that we no longer accept as moral or normative. It also strongly condemns things that currently define our social relations and entertainment—like premarital sex. Have you ever had sex outside of marriage? If “role models for children” is the standard for parenting why do we allow children into the homes of people who smoke, drink, gamble, or body build for that matter?
Child advocacy organizations have noted that more than 100 million children around the world are orphaned, effectively homeless, and have bleak prospects for what most of us would consider a future life worth living. When you block gay adoption whom do you think you are helping? The child? No. The child that goes unadopted will suffer a bleak and probably short future. The potential gay parents aren’t really being hurt either; those who have the money and are determined to do it can easily have a child with a surrogate mother (a friend or a hired surrogate, sperm bank, etc). There are many potential gay parents out there who would adopt if it were made easy, but with people like you trying to stop them they will simply spend their time and money on additional toys, trips, pets, and other distractions—resources that could otherwise be used to provide a loving home, education, and future for a homeless child. If you have your way, most of those unadopted children will certainly die prematurely. Does that really make you feel as if you "saved" them?
A few years ago a couple in Weston, Wisconsin had an 11 year-old daughter who was suffering from diabetic ketoacidosis. The illness was perfectly treatable, but the parents put their psycho/spiritual beliefs ahead of common sense insisting that ‘god will cure her’; their daughter died. You can find news reports of this story online; simply search for the headline “Parents Pick Prayer Over Docs; Girl Dies.” Americans have long observed that people in other countries frequently place ideology ahead of common sense, but they seem to forget that this happens in the USA as well. The vociferous objection to interracial marriage was one example. The objection to gay adoption is another. In effect, the opponents of gay adoption have put prayer over common sense. The result is that millions of children will die needlessly.
Bah! Doom disapproves.
