Yes my promised post on homosexuality is on its way, however this week’s discussion in the news seems to be the ‘Gay Adoption Debate’, the catholics started it, claiming they wanted to be exempt from having to allow gay couples to adopt from their adoption places.

For once I agree with the catholics (and the anglicans who later jumped in to the debate), I think that gay marriage is one thing (at least it’s not currently church serviced!), however gay adoption is a complete no no,. Firstly agreeing to the gay adoption would go against the catholics faith and indeed most Christians and I don’t think anyone should be required to sacrifice their beliefs, and in fact I think in the next few years as this country goes more and more PC we will see Christians having a tough time and probably being put in jail for various reactions to things, whether its refusing to marry a gay couple or whatever.

My personal view on gay adoption is that its wrong, initially because I’m a Christian but secondally I’m thinking about the social implimentations this would have for the adopted children.

For starters when the ‘birds and bees’ conversation comes up how are they going to explain that a mummy is needed? Isn’t it going to confuse the poor child a bit, who of course probably thinks that both daddy’s are it’s parents (or both mummy’s).

Also there is the balance of children being looked after, yes in this country there are many children with single mums or dads, and some do get to see their other parent others don’t, but I think that God designed parents to be in pairs, one male, one female, hence adam and eve not adam and steve. I think that each parent has something to offer to a child, for example a Dad typically finds it difficult to relate to a girl, particually an adolescent one about things like peroids and make-up and other girlie issues, whereas a mum would, the same goes for guys and guy issues and Dad’s. There’s something to be said for having a male and female parent, yes not all married hetrosexual parents are good ones but I think the principal for good parenting and a good balance of male and female influence on a child is there.

The other thing I’m thinking is ‘is it really fair to the child?’, as the child reaches adolescence lots of changes take place, will a child coming out as straight to his gay parents have an effect on the family? (that was a side thought). At that age a teenager is questioning all sorts of things, discovering their identity and fitting into groups at school, with friends being very important, gay parents could be a huge problem here. As I’m sure many of you readers are aware being ‘gay’ is often used as an insult in schools, if someone is camp they are accused of being gay and I’m pretty sure a young person having gay parents is going to cause huge issues at school with mickey takers etc.

Yes research has shown that children adopted by gay parents don’t end up worse off but I think overall the implimentations of this on a child and then on them as a teenager could be huge, they could be socially excluded through no fault of their own.

I think that the catholics are right to object and I think that the whole gay adoption thing is out of order and ridiculous!