Gay Adoptions
Caroline:
January 29th, 2007
Much has been made of the Catholic Church’s stance on gay adoptions recently. It has sparked one moral debate after another: should the Catholic Church be exempt from the law of the land, are the rights of adults being put before the rights of children, can a gay couple succeed as parents as easily as a straight couple, will the closure of Catholic adoption agencies mean that some of the most hard to place children remain in institutions, is it right to force a charity which is not state-funded to act against its moral pronciples, etc etc. However, surely the issue has descended into the realms of farce when a leading Bishop states that his agenices do place children with gay people so long as they are single. Presumably the issue is with celibacy but why should gay singles be celibate any more than straight singles. We are after all living in the 21st century!