Ethics

Gay Adoption: Relationships Can Trump Religion

By Ed Brayton

Rod Dreher has an interesting column at BeliefNet about his own support for gay adoption and how personal relationships with gay parents who adopted changed his mind on the issue despite his religious views on homosexuality. He starts by telling the story of a friend of his broaching the subject with him:

A conservative Catholic friend e-mails this morning with news of a gay couple she knows having adopted an orphan from overseas, and how she supports what they're doing. She says that she accepts the Church's teaching about homosexuality, but considering the life this orphaned child faced in his home country, and knowing her gay friends to be of sterling character, she believes the child ended up in the best possible situation for him.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on December 03, 2009 (boomark / email).