is it rite to force the Catholic Church to accept gay adoptions?

Answer 1

+ Homosexuality +

The Catholic Church believes there is nothing sinful about being homosexual. But homosexuals like all unmarried people are called to celibacy.

Unmarried cohabiting couples, whether heterosexual or homosexual, are living in sin.

+ Adoptions +

The issue at hand is that Catholic adoption agencies in the England and Wales handle about one-third of all private adoptions.

The Catholic Church regularly matches orphans with married (heterosexual) couples. People who are living as our religion believes God intended.

There is a new law taking effect in April that says that the adoption agencies will have to place children with homosexual couples.

Catholics believe that not only it is not in the best interest of the child to place them in an environment of immorality and sin that if they follow the law then they themselves will be sinning in the process.

Catholic doctors are not forced to perform abortions. Catholic prison workers are not forced to execute prisoners. Catholics are not forced to commit what they believe to be sinful acts in any other part of society.

What happened to freedom of religion?

+ With love in Christ.

Answer 2

It is a fundamental principle of the rule of law that the law applies to all. The decision has been made, by Parliament, that discimination on grounds of sexual orientation is wrong and should be prohibited. (That decision is obviously right; but that is beside the point for present purposes.) If that law applies to me, then it applies to Cardinal Cormack Murphy O'Conner too; and the Pope, for that matter, if ever he ventures to this country. How dare they seek exemption from the law on the ground that they personally disagree with it?

A rather more extreme example illustrates the point. A handful of fundamentalist suicide bombers adopt a perverse interpretation of Islam which leads them to believe that they can properly kill and maim - to that extent, they disagree with the law against murder. But tough: the law is the law and they are not exempt from it.

This issue, by the way, is different from the question of whether it is right to allow homosexual couples to adopt at all, which is much more fraught. The point is that the Catholic Church has no right to special treatment in the eyes of the law.

By the way, this is also different from the question of Catholics being forced, or not being forced, to do other things. Catholic doctors might well not be forced to undertake abortions, as someone has said. Nobody is forced to undertake abortions. The point is that, if such doctors do decide to undertake abortions, they are not permitted to refuse to operate on a lesbian women, or a black woman, or a foreign woman. If the Church wishes to do things, it must do them in a non-discriminatory way.

Answer 3

Yes. Because the adoption service the catholic church provides is a PUBLIC service. They recieve taxpayers money, Ergo Sum it's morally right they cater to the entirity of the public, regardless of sexual orientation or nationality etc. The jury is still out on whether gay couples make better/worse parents, but the facts stand that they accept harder to place older children, so it's in the childs interests.

also:

"You seem to be unaware that the Catholic church already accepts and supports the adoption of children by single gay men...it is just gay men in relationships they won't accept."

Anyone who's researched this almost certainly knows that. Also, it's the final proof that the catholic church is against the homosexual act itself, rather than gay orientation. This proves it's simply a bigoted "yuck" factor.

Id also like to comment on this nonsense:

"I don't mean wrong morally or legally I do mean its wrong naturally , there is no point to it , sex is predominately for procreation and nature made it pleasurable to ensure the continuation of the human race ."

So.. your saying that condoms are wrong, abortions are wrong, monogamy is wrong, contraception is wrong, since it stops procreation?

Oh, and lets not forget that fact that homosexuality is the natural result of genetic variation (Without which nothing would evolve) and that homosexuality has been observed in hundreds of different species.

I've also had gay experiences which were pretty "pleasurable" too.

Answer 4

Personally I don't think that the Catholic Church should have an opinion on anything, until they stop being hypocrites. They must stop trying to control their followers and actually start spreading the TRUE message that Jesus intended and not what they think it should be because they will lose their excessive lifestyles. May I use one of their tools against them, the bible, "may he without sin cast the first stone". So who are they to judge the gay community? At least the child will get a a caring loving home! Love is a gift from Above, it does not matter what your sex or colour may be!

Answer 5

The Catholic Church has already admitted that 30-40% of its priests are gay, which skill 50%. The Pope says that new priests would be asked in the event that they're gay until eventually now their ordination with a view to get rid of gays in the rectories, yet each and every physique is attentive to that gay adult adult males will say "No" with a view to get in.

Answer 6

It is perfectly acceptable if they take public money.
It would be expressly illegal to take MY money in the form of taxes, give it to someone else and then disallow my participation in a program on a religious basis.

Second, why, after it has been proven that the Catholic Church has hidden pedophile priests from law enforcement and paid millions of dollars to families of molested parishioners and then had the records sealed to hide the details, are any form of Catholic-based operations allowed within 1000 miles of a child?

Answer 7

This is a sticky situation since adoption is a LEGAL process. So, if the Catholic Church is in BUSINESS as an adoption company, than yea, they have to abide by the same LAWS as everyone else.

Answer 8

i am not a christian, in fact i am a Muslim, and i believe it is completely wrong. This isn't because i share the view that homosexuality is a sin but because no faith should have to take part in a law which goes against their beliefs. That's plain wrong. They should not have to give gay/lesbian parent children to adopt if they do not believe that homosexuality is wrong. However, I'd like to suggest something, how about asking the children if they want their parents to be homosexuals. Let them meet them and see for them selves. I don't know if this is a good idea or not but i suppose its worth a try.

Answer 9

They provide their adoption service through government funding, therefore yes, they should be forced.

However, within their institution, if they feel they wish not to allow gay and/or female priest/vicars that's up to them. If they don't want to provide same-sex marriage, that to is up to them, as long as they are not given public funds to provide their services.

Lastly, they do "accept" gay adoptions. Single gay people can adopt. The catholic church are fully aware that gay people are prepared to adopt children who are not considered "perfect" or are not babies.

Answer 10

I don't think one can "force" the Catholic Church to do that.
Some pastors and associates may be more "liberal" than others. It's a matter of finding where they are.

If gay adoptions are legal, there isn't much the church can do otherwise. The pastors/priests may not do the baptizing. But, I am not sure about that myself.