Gay Adoption: Who wants to cast the first stone?
No matter what you think about gay marriage and adoption, you have to wonder what is worse: A life in foster care, or a life with a gay family.
From the policies of many conservatives, the latter is much worse. Growing up without caring parents, having high chances of living the rest of your life on the streets, receiving a lower level of education, and learning few marketable skills, is a far more acceptable fate than being in the house of two women or two men.
As an adopted person myself, I would certainly choose a family over foster care. With more than 500,000 children in foster care in the US, we're not looking for just a beating pulse, but for anyone who is loving and able to accept a child and provide them with a family.
If you want to be the first to toss stones, let you also be the first to adopt one of these five hundred thousand children. I'll make it easy for you. Call Christian Family Care here in Arizona and they would be more than happy to assist you in adopting. My cousin is a social worker there. Ask for her. While you're at it, adopt a special needs child, or one who is black, or over the age of 5. These children are pretty much doomed to live in foster care for their entire lives. It you want to cast stones, you better be blameless yourself.
Below is a post from Zach Lind's blog. It rings so true, and I pray that people who condemn homosexuals that adopt would be the FIRST to step up to care for the least of these, the many children who need a home.
“Anyone who stands between a hungry kid and home with food is doing something immoral. Anyone who stands between a child who is not safe and safe home is wrong. And if you think that heterosexual parents make better adoptive homes, and want to make a big deal about it, you had better have at least one adopted, high need kid if you want me to give a hoot what you think. I realize that’s a much more visceral than rational response, and probably a little unfair. But as I’m sitting in my Moms’ living room, cooking for tomorrow, when 28 of our family - my sisters and their husbands and kids, my aunt and her adopted daughter and her elderly mother, two former foster kids and their kids, my aunt and uncle (on step-Mom’s side) and their kids are coming together, I find I simply can’t come up with anything else to say.”
- Sharon Astyk, a commenter at Rod Dreher’s blog, Crunchy Con, who was raised by two moms. Read her entire comment here.
There is a great deal of grandstanding by conservatives on issues such as gay equality and the rights of the unborn yet there are so many unwanted kids left to fend for themselves in a nation of staggering over-abundance. In the abstract, these arguments succeed at unifying the true believers but all the while the day-to-day lives of the forgotten trudge on. The reason conservatives are slowly but surely losing in these kinds of debates is evident in stories like the one above. These stories expose in plain site that the only value that keeps the conservative flame flickering is their own dogmatism, their own greedy hunger to be “right.” If their concern was for the children themselves, they’d most likely be too busy raising them to give a shit what others think.
