I saw a link to this on the family pride.org blog, a site dedicated to equality issues for gay families. Their tag line is - love. justice. family. equality. - who could disagree with that I say! Well I’m sure some people do but my experiences with gay families adopting from foster care have been awesome. I support them 100%. Kids are languishing the system and qualified families are needed to parent them.
Now it appears the evangelical movement wants to get involved in foster care and adoption. GREAT. The more the merrier. I have grown tired of some Christian groups rhetoric against abortion and against gay adoptive foster families. I disagree in most ways the core of their beliefs but I also disagree with the fact those groups don’t actively do enough REAL things. I don’t think protesting outside of abortion clinics does anything but upset women. But encouraging them to adopt from foster care is a very good thing.
“In some people’s minds, the church has been very pro-life up until the point of birth,” said Michael Monroe, who co-founded an adoption and foster care ministry at Irving Bible Church outside Dallas. “But a lot of people are saying it’s not enough to be pro-life, we need to be pro-children, as well.”
I agree completely. Quit the rhetoric and get involved. I hope they stick to just encouraging people though and we don’t end up with the issues with the Catholic groups who didn’t want to place children in gay families (fhew so many issues involved here).
And for the record, I’m a Christian and very liberal Republican.
May 4, 2007 at 8:28 pm
As a former foster child and current child advocate, one of my biggest personal disappointments with the Church has been apathy toward foster children, when God Himself has been described in the Bible as ‘Father of the fatherless.’
Keep up the good work,
Lisa
http://sunshinegirlonarainyday.blogspot.com/
May 7, 2007 at 2:59 pm
Hopefully it makes a difference. Although I fear it won’t.