Saturday, March 11, 2006
'Children’s lives and stability for dogma': Someone was supposed to blink. It didn't happen. So Catholic Charities is now out of the adoption business (stories here and here). ... Now I certainly don't want to sound like a right-wing nut of the type you see regularly over at Domenico's site, where they actually think Catholic Charities didn't take a tough enough stand and lambaste a priest of the church for not citing the Gospels enough. But a compromise on both sides really could have avoided this tragedy. The church did seek a compromise. The state refused. No counterproposals on either side. None. The word 'immoral' is being slung around a lot. It deserves to be applied to both sides if the word is logically to be used. After all, isn't this all about the kids, as so many of the self-righteous on both sides claim? Well, the kids have lost. Who's to blame? The adults who squabbled and refused to budge from their dogmatic positions. Jeff was largely right on this score. ... P.S. - I have no objection to gays adopting children. I object to the notion there's only one dogmatic side to this issue. .... P.S.P.S. -- Lots of other blog comments and links over at Adam's site.
