Churches unite over adoption row

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Urgh! Again with the religion.

The problem with this arguement is that the people with strong religious feels about homosexual couples adopting have no common ground with the people who believe any stable family unit should be able to adopt. It’s like trying to teach someone calculus when they don’t understand basic maths.

I always find reversing the question helps in these matters. Currently the question is:

Why should church run adoption agencies be forced to go against their conscience and place children with homosexual couples?

It should be:

Why should a child be denied loving parents by a church run adoption agency just because of their prospective parents’ sexual orientation?

The problem is tradition (and the associated traditional values). People think that tradition means “We do this, because we’ve always done this.” But it really is only the last generation’s way of thinking. The current generation always have their own take on the world, and they need to come to their own conclusions about what traditions they keep and which they throw away.

“Ah, but is it not also true that times must and do change…”

-Eddie Murphy (Coming To America)

Religion has been proclaiming that homosexuality is wrong. This is based on some very shaky and controversial parts of historical religious documents (parts of the bible), while ignoring other rules in those same parts. Even then the documents only usually they only refer to men (since they were written by men and they didn’t really care about women got up to).

in the past, this rule against homosexual males made some sort of sense, since the human population was very small and any activity that didn’t produce more babies was likely to be harmful to the local population.

But today, we have over 6 billion people on the planet. In my lifetime, that’s likely to rise to over 9 billion. Every model of the world says that even at 6 billion people, we have roughly twice as many people as the planet can support, longterm.

So the question really becomes: Why isn;t religion moving with the times? Why does it still stick to a few rules in the bible that support it’s bigotry, and I’m sorry to use that word, but it is the word that best describes the situation, and prejudiced view?

If anyone can answer that question, you’re smarter than me, because I’ve been trying to understand this all my adult life.