Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney is looking for a way to give an exemption to Catholic Charities in Massachusetts from a state law barring discrimination against gays looking to adopt kids.
Here’s the thing: How does one enforce a ban on a negative? In other words, how do you know if Catholic Charities is discriminating against gays? Only 13 out of 720 adoptions over the past two decades went to gays. If no gay couple gets a kid this year is that evidence of discrimination?
Of course, the exemption means there’s no rigamarole and no “don’t ask, don’t tell.” It also means the Church can live out her principles in public without shame while continuing adoptions and without giving the impression that she’s compromising herself. But my point goes back to why this is such a big deal? Why is the United Way, the state Legislature, and the board of Catholic Charities so intent on continuing a practice which everyone admits gives only a baker’s dozen kids to gays in two decades, especially when there are other adoption agencies quite willing to accommodate them?
The myth of the gay adoptive parents
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The National Catholic Register (Mar. 3-11) reports:
The number of children that Boston Catholic Charities has placed with homosexual adoptive parents may be well more than the 13 the agency has reported.
An accurate number of such adoptions will probably never be known. The reported figure of 13 adoptions since 1987 includes only those where the adopters self-identified as homosexual “couples.”
It wasn’t until 2004 that same-sex “marriages” were allowed in the state, so questions remain as to how many children were placed with homosexual individuals prior to that.
Read the whole article. It’s very informative.