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Homosexual Adoption

Dear Aaron,

             I knew there was something I left out of my last e-mail, and I also knew you would remind me of it! You always were a sharp kid. I suppose the reason it slipped my mind was that adopting children, not to mention marriage, is a fairly new but not unexpected tactic taken up by the homosexual activists. Their strategy is to get as many institutions in America as possible to accept their behavior. The hope is that as successive generations come of age, they will be increasingly influenced by these institutions and therefore more willing to accept the homosexual agenda. As I said previously, their goal is not merely to have people put up with behavior, but to see it as being morally equivalent with heterosexuality. This is why they will never be satisfied with civil unions. As long as they cannot be married in the same way as heterosexuals, they do not have full moral equality.

Now, of course, if one is against homosexuality one will be against homosexual adoption as well. Therefore, all the former arguments apply, but there are others we can look at that are specific to this issue. The claim that the homosexual activists make is that despite their sexual orientation, two loving people would be better for a child than for that child to be bounced around from foster home to foster home, oftentimes in abusive or less than ideal conditions.

I think we can grant the possibility that the foster care system may need to be revamped or replaced, but that does not justify redefining the family. Most people will agree that the ideal situation for children is to have a loving biological mother and a loving biological father. They not only bring the unique male and female perspective to the raising of the child, but also the examples for male and female roles: the boy will be able to learn what it is to be a man from his father, and how to treat a lady from his mother. Likewise, a young girl will be able to learn how to be a woman from her mother, and how to relate to a man from her father.

The importance of having biological parents is that they have the most invested in, and the closest ties to their children. They conceived their children through an act of love, and their kids will inherit many of their traits. They will look like their parents, walk like them, talk like them—and not only like them, but also like their grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins as well.

The question is what should be done when this ideal situation breaks down, and I think the answer is to try and approximate it as closely as possible. Adoption into a loving family would be one such option. Even a single parent family would be closer to the ideal than a homosexual one. In the case of the homosexual couple, we would be asking people to raise a life, even when these parents—in their most intimate and soul bearing moments—have denied life. It isn’t that for one reason or another they have chosen not to create life; it’s that homosexuality is a repudiation of life.

The Christian God is the God of life, and even though he can choose not to create if he wants, he never acts in a way that renounces life, and homosexuality by its very nature renounces life. In a similar way, the sexuality of a husband and wife who choose not to have children is not necessarily a renunciation of life. They have rightly or wrongly chosen not to create, but if they were to change their mind they could easily do so. The homosexual has no such choice.

The single-family household, amongst other expressions of family life, is broken. That will happen in a fallen world, but if it is fixed, life can result. Couples who for whatever reason cannot have children are the unfortunate victims of a breakdown in the created order, but if we had the proper technology we could fix it also. A homosexual household, on the other hand, cannot be fixed because it is other than what a family has been created to be.

Even if we were to grant that a homosexual couple could separate themselves from what their sexuality represents, and to one degree or another could love a child, the question is, do we want to put our kids into that sort of perverse, radically altered, life-denying environment?  The Christian answer is a resounding no.

The thing to remember about the homosexual activist is that everything he does is to further the movement. He believes that if the movement is advanced both he and society will benefit. We, of course, believe that Christianity is the truth, and that furthering it will benefit society. As a people we will have to decide in which direction we wish to go. 

            I hope this answers your question. I’m glad to see you’ve jumped right into the fray. Far too many are content to sit on the sidelines hoping to make it through college— or life for that matter—unscathed. Neither Jesus, nor the Apostles, nor the great saints of the ages made it through life unscathed, and neither should we. If you’re not bloody you’re not in the battle, and if you’re not in the battle, you are cheating your God, your church, your country, and yourself. So keep up the good work and keep in touch.

Love,

Uncle Greg