But the very fact that the child is set up for a planned adoption by two men or two women, means they -- or the agency that set it up --- think either that a child has no right to a father, or that a child has no right to a mother.
They're deficient in the very area where diversity and balance counts: diversity in relating to a father AND a mother, and balance in experiencing day by day the affective complementarity of marriage: of a man and a woman in a good marital relationship.
Walker Percy and his two younger brothers were raised well by their homosexual but singleton second cousin, William Alexander Percy. Clarence Thomas was raised by his grandfather, Myers Anderson. God bless those who are thrust by happenstance into a broken situation. Bless them as they do as well as they can. Sometimes --- often --- a child could get stuck in a an unbalanced situation by chance.
But it should not be imposed on any child by choice.
Precisely. We have seen the talking points in this very thread. They use the most dire situation possible (retarded child facing life in orphanage) to justify what is fast becoming state-mandated gay parenting. That is, adoption agencies are being required by law to treat all prospective adoptive couples the same, without regard to such old-fashioned notions as "mothers" and "fathers."
Some kids wait an awful long time to be adopted. Unless they fit the desirable criteria. It is what is is. We’ve had several adoptions in the family. If you tell the agency you will take any race or kids with serious medical issues your wait time is less. My sister got a black infant within 5 months of joining an agency. The cold reality is not too many married couples are willing to adopt a baby with Downs. Unfortunately as we all know many Downs babies are terminated before birth. An on-going crime against humanity. In my case I’ve seen 2 Lesbians change the lives of 2 Downs kids vastly for the better.