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12/18/2007
Hetero adoptive parents: Ready to join our fight yet?
In response to an LA Times article on two gay men who employed surrogacy methods to become new fathers, the Family Research Council's Tony Perkins (or, more likely, his ghost writer) says the following:
"...they have gone to such great lengths to ensure that this child will not "go through" the experience that most children enjoy of being raised by both a mother and a father. It is outrageous that courts in some states have become complicit in this denial of biological reality by allowing homosexual couples to have custody of newborns and birth certificates that mislead about the true parentage of the child."
So not to be a hypocrite, we're sure Tony will next lash out against adoptive and foster parents of any variety, right? And heterosexual couples who rely on egg or sperm donation to complete their parental dreams -- those are clearly the next on Tony's derision list, right? After all, if Tony's gonna use such pietistic lines of reasoning to denounce loving same-sex couples who utilize fertility methods outside of man/woman intercourse, he must, as a thinking man, also condemn the opposite-sex couples in the same fashion, yes?
Wait, what's that you say? No, it's highly unlikely that Tony will condemn the heterosexuals who go to extra lengths to have children, as he has no desire to demonize their lives and families? And his condemnatory rhetoric is less an attempt to denounce surrogacy, and more an attempt to make gays look radical, evil, unsavory, an out-of-step with nature?
Oh. Well gee, that sure is mean, un-Christianlike, and falsely sanctimonious! Sure hope the public at large doesn't start to catch on to just how empty and uncompassionate the "moral values" team's rhetoric truly is...
Homosexual Parents Knock Out Nature in Courts [FRC Washington Update]
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