My point is this...if gays should not be allowed to adopt, neither should fundamentalists...?

Question

The kidding that kids receive at school because their parents are fundamentalists is bad...I know, I was one of those kids with fundie parents....this is usually an argument against gay parenting...it works both ways.

Fundamentalists strive to force everyone to believe as they do...they will make their children attend church..read the Bible, etc...is this right? If they are Baptist, they will force their child to go to a Baptist church...is this right?

Finally, Fundamentalists will tell their children that they are going to hell if they do not believe as they do...if they do not turn from their sins, etc...isn't this an act of torture...say, if the kid is gay? This treatment has caused many gay kids to commit suicide.... Shouldn't the fundamentalist be held accountable for harrasing the child, etc...

This is only for example...if the fundamentalist will love the child they, along with gay people should be allowed to adopt...there are too many unloved children in this world

Answer 1

I like it when the fundies try to argue that homosexuals are so congenitally unhappy ("It's ironic that they call themselves 'gay'") that they often wind up committing suicide. As if it has nothing to do with being subjected to years of systematic torture and abuse by fundie bigots and hypocrites who are actually so deluded that they believe they're exemplifying "God's Love."

As for your question, religious fundamentalism IS child abuse. Ever see "Jesus Camp"? But we all have this idea that we're supposed to respect religious beliefs and practices regardless of how ridiculous and shameful and abusive they are. "Too bad for the kids!"

Answer 2

they will make their children attend church..read the Bible, etc...is this right?
Yup

If they are Baptist, they will force their child to go to a Baptist church...is this right?
Yup

Finally, Fundamentalists will tell their children that they are going to hell if they do not believe as they do...if they do not turn from their sins, etc...isn't this an act of torture
No - it's the Word of God.

Shouldn't the fundamentalist be held accountable for harrasing the child, etc...
Held accountable for training the child in the way of God.
Proverbs 22:6
Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

Answer 3

I think that it's horrible that you were abused as a child. I was also raised in a dysfunctional family as well that was religious. I am no longer believe what my parents believe mainly because I was seeking the truth.

No I am not a fundamentalist or ever was either and I don't agree with the harshness in the way they come across with people. I am a born again believer that believes in the teachings of the bible. I certainly don't believe in smacking kids around mainly because I do know what that's like.

I believe in discipline and I know that works because I used to look after some of my sisters kids in the same way my born again christian sister was with me.

She was firm with me not rough and very loving. She taught me how to make choices on my own and didn't force me to do any thing that I didn't want to do. I also went to church with her mainly because I wanted to go as a child and there's the difference.

I rebelled as a teenager but that didn't stop me from wanting God at all. I struggled with confusion mainly because when you see two different beliefs that you would think be the same but weren't you become confused.

So in part I can understand where you are coming from but in a way our situations were much different. I came back to God as an adult mainly because I choose to come back to him not because I was forced or brain washed. It was his "Love" that drew me back to him.

I am sorry that has happened to you and I do hope that you may have a chance of heart and see God for whom he really is and not from a harsh prospective. My wish for you is that you will be healed and set free from your past. God Bless.

I also believe that people should be checked out to see if they would be good parents based on how they treat others. If they would observe how the child is doing before they are officially adoupted before they are allow. I don't know how it all works but I do have to wonder?

Answer 4

Fundamentalists are not fond of these arguements. They also don't deal well with "if god didn't want gays to marry because they can't conceive out of wedlock, why do they have no problem with the sterile or postmenopausal straights wedding?"

Good for the goose and good for the gander arguements never work for ganders that think the goose is the mother of all sin and source of all evil, so to speak.

Answer 5

Most objections to same-sex marriage seem to be rooted in religious faith or prejudice and defy proof or disproof.

However, opponents of same-sex marriage do invoke one line of reasoning that can be confirmed or refuted by evidence.

That argument concerns children, and rests on two related contentions: First, unlike heterosexual couples, gay couples generally do not raise children and therefore do not need the benefits of marriage. Second, to the extent that gays do raise children, they do the children harm.

As it happens, the best available evidence shows that both arguments rest on fantasies and false stereotypes.

The proclivity to raise children is neither automatic among mixed-gender couples nor off-limits to same-sex couples.

The 2000 U.S. Census showed that in California, half of married couples and one-third of gay couples are raising children. (The latter figure is 28% if limited to one's "own" children — a census term that includes biological, step and adopted children — but climbs to 32% when unrelated children, such as foster kids, are included.) More than 70,000 children in California are being raised by gay couples.

What about the notion that children raised by gay parents suffer as a result? This too turns out to be unsubstantiated.

The American Academy of Pediatrics' Committee on Psychosocial Aspects of Child and Family Health issued a report in 2002, the most recent comprehensive review of gay-parenting studies. It found no meaningful differences between children raised by gay parents and those raised by heterosexual parents.

Answer 6

You're right - too many unloved children in the world - so let's ban abortion and have a couple billion more! More unloved, unwanted kids to be used & abused.

Fundies can adopt kids if they swear to raise them atheist.

Answer 7

Gay people have money and are good dressers they should be able to adopt. Fundies give all their money away that is bad, you can't raise a kid with no money and k-mart clothes.

Answer 8

I Love Lamp

Answer 9

And yet you complain that we don't adopt kids that are saved from abortion...

I see questions like why don't you christians adopt the kids when someone says that we shouldn't abort, and then you turn around and say that I shouldn't adopt...

Answer 10

More love

Less rage