This is a swerious question. There are poeple who disagree with the 'christian lifestyle' just as there are people who disagree with the 'gay lifestyle'. Yet I never hear the right of Christians to adopt children questioned. Why should one group have the unquestioned right to adopt and the other group be challenged at every turn?
And don't give me any God's word stuff because that has nothing to do with the laws of our country.
2007-01-18 03:10:37 · 16 answers · asked by mullah robertson 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I understand taht christians are still good people. What I am trying to figure out is why objection to one lifestyle are taken as a valid argument for infringement of rights while objections to another are seen as outrageous.
2007-01-18 03:15:10 · update #1
No religious person should be allowed to adopt children! This is nothing short of selective brainwashing! Teaching religion of any kind to a child should be against the law, period.
2007-01-18 03:44:32 · answer #1 · answered by buddybleau 1 · 2⤊ 1⤋
As someone who was adopted, I don't think religion actually enters into it. I was born to a Jewish mother, and I was adopted by the most wonderful couple in the world. Not only that, but they were both handicapped and in wheelchairs, and they adopted me and my little brother. They were nonbelievers, and raised me that way. I have since become a Christian, but the state didn't consider religion when I was being adopted. If they had, they probably would have tried to find a Jewish family for us.
2007-01-18 11:17:27 · answer #2 · answered by Cylon Betty 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am a Christian, that was adopted and have 2 adopted kids. It is a great analogy on explaining God's love for us. God created us, but until we accept Christ as our savior , we are not His children. He has adopted us, and given us the right to BECOME children of God. I know through my adopted family, I came to know the Lord.
As wrong as I think it is, gays adopt all the time, I know a few.
2007-01-18 11:37:41 · answer #3 · answered by AdoreHim 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I know that Christians can adopt but let me tell you it was hard for me and my husband to get Guardianship of a 15 year old boy that we knew for four years through our Church his was mom was a member. His mother had died and he needed to be placed somewhere. We stepped up, I thought no big deal. Well we are white and he is black so I wondered what the state would think of that. they actually didn't say anything about that. But they didn't want us to take him in because we are Christians. so after letting them know that he was too and that was how we knew him and already loved him they finally agreed but it was tough because of our religion so take heart it isn't just gays that have a hard time with this. It does hit everyone seems to me that everyone is anti something.
2007-01-18 11:29:36 · answer #4 · answered by Mary B 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In Ephesians:
"...Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will..."
And wasn't the best and foremost of God's prophets, Moses, adopted?
The difference is, the adopter didn't have any serious issues that affected the children. Children subjected to the spirit of homosexuality will develop terrible personal conflict, just like the parents. How can you subject children to that if you really care about them?
2007-01-18 11:35:10 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
What I can't understand is why Christians insist that the US was founded on God's Laws. It wasn't. I can understand if they said, the UK, but the US clearly wasn't. Only four of the ten Commandments are law, which is quite poor on their behalf. Which begs the question, why aren't there more Ten Commandments enshrined in US Law if it was based on the Bible?
If it was, why was it that "In God we Trust" was only added to all money in the 20th Century?
2007-01-18 11:40:53 · answer #6 · answered by Chris W 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i am a Christian and i was adopted when i was two months old and i don't think i would have ever found God with my birth parents. Adoption was the best thing that ever happened to me so i would say its ok to adopt.
2007-01-18 11:18:20 · answer #7 · answered by elf_drummer_boy 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes, Christians should be able to adopt.
Oh, and this country was built on the statues of God. The say money makes the world go 'round... What does money have on it? In God We Trust!
Get it together... Better yet let me say a quick prayer.
Oh, and another thing... The Bible says that no man should lay with another man in the way that he would lay with a woman... Leviticus!
2007-01-18 11:16:26 · answer #8 · answered by MsLadie 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
In the book "The God Delusion", Dawkings makes the case that indoctrinating a child to christianity is a form of abuse.
2007-01-18 11:20:31 · answer #9 · answered by eldad9 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Gay people adopt children all the time.
2007-01-18 11:14:22 · answer #10 · answered by padwinlearner 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋