At 12:06 AM 7/25/2003 -0500 Adam C. Lipscomb wrote:
>JDG poured an a$$load of gasoline on the fire by writing:
>
>> I disagree. Since every child is produced by a mother and a
>father, I
>> think that our ideal goal should be to place every child up for
>adoption
>> with a very good mother and father.
>
>With all due respect, I think you're way out of touch with reality.
>You've taken the classic boob's line, "God created Adam and Eve, not
>Adam and Steve!" and slapped a new coat of pain on it, but it's still
>bereft of real substance, and just as ridiculous. While a man and a
>woman are required for the initial act, it does not necessarily follow
>that both sexes are required for every step after that. I have yet to
>see compelling evidence that gay adoptive parents, screened to the
>same degree as a heterosexual couple, are less fit as parents.
My position is based on the fact that I firmly believe that women and men
are fundamentally different. I consider this differences to be effects of
both fundamental biology, and, of course, differences in cultural roles.
While we clearly know that a man and a woman are not *required* for raising
children, each unborn child has a reasonable expectation of having both a
mother and father, since each was necessary for the creation of that child.
Since society's role in assigning adoptions should entirely give
consdieration to the needs and rights of the child - not to the desires of
the adopters, I think that society should try and meet the reasonable
expectations of the child whenever possible, since of course, there is no
way of determining any contrary desire of the child.
JDG
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