Posted on 09/24/2010 2:01:21 PM PDT by NYer
A Florida appeals court has ruled that a 1977 state law forbidding adoption by homosexual persons is unconstitutional. “It is difficult to see any rational basis in utilizing homosexual persons as foster parents or guardians on a temporary or permanent basis while imposing a blanket prohibition on adoption by those same persons,” the three judges ruled in a unanimous decision. Governor Charlie Crist praised the court ruling.
In 1992, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith urged bishops to oppose legislation that permits adoption or foster care by homosexual persons.
“Sexual orientation” does not constitute a quality comparable to race, ethnic background, etc. in respect to non-discrimination. Unlike these, homosexual orientation is an objective disorder (cf. Letter, no. 3) and evokes moral concern. There are areas in which it is not unjust discrimination to take sexual orientation into account, for example, in the placement of children for adoption or foster care, in employment of teachers or athletic coaches, and in military recruitment …
Since in the assessment of proposed legislation uppermost concern should be given to the responsibility to defend and promote family life, strict attention should be paid to the single provisions of proposed measures. How would they affect adoption or foster care? Would they protect homosexual acts, public or private? Do they confer equivalent family status on homosexual unions, for example, in respect to public housing or by entitling the homosexual partner to the privileges of employment which could include such things as “family” participation in the health benefits given to employees?
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pray for the babies........
Florida is a death state
At some point, some governor must stand up to the courts and say NO! Force a constitutional crisis.
On to the Supreme Court, I hope.
Good point, Your Honor. Get those weirdos out of the foster-parent business, too.
No perverts for foster parents, guardians or adoptive parents. period.
Yeah, Charlie the Independent is going to do that!
Florida stupidly places foster kids in homosexual homes freely but then tries to tell them they can’t adopt the kids they have been caring for.
South Florida is oozing with liberalism.
It is intellectually dishonest to approve homosexual foster care but not adoption.
“No rational” = Christians
Guess it’s not “for the children” in all cases.
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One more article about the Judges Gone Wild in Florida just in case anyone missed the other one. This is extremely destructive to children. Children should never, ever be placed in homes with homosexuals. Never!
I was unaware that they have soup kitchens, stuff like that, all run by compassionate volunteers. With that the city backed down.
Slippery slope maybe?
What exact;y was the rational basis in utilizing people that are predisposed to engage in or prefer to engage in homosexual sex as foster parents or guardians on a temporary or permanent basis? Maybe there you may find a clue? Does the initial rational basis support going forward and increasing the scope of the experiment?
With these leftist -up is down, black is white, and they are stuck on stupid. The question should be by what rational basis does the court declare people that are predisposed to engage in or prefer to engage in homosexual sex are proper parents? The court is bass ackward here on this one the burden of proof is not upon the state to prove anything -especially, when the laws of nature, common practice, society and culture throughout history confirm what is codified by the people the law of the land...
Were the Catholic Church to shut down ALL of its services, the US gov't would be unable to provide for the piglets. Thanks for the post and ping.
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Yes, make a law to ban “gay” foster parenting as well.
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