Cardinal accused of inciting prejudice over gay adoption

September 05, 2005

Cardinal accused of inciting prejudice over gay adoption
By Angus Macleod, Scottish Political Editor
Times


THE head of the Roman Catholic Church in Scotland was accused of inciting prejudice against homosexuals yesterday after he described plans to allow gay couples to adopt as gravely immoral.

Cardinal Keith O’Brien gave warning in a newspaper article that the proposal — which could be contained in the Scottish Executive’s legislative programme tomorrow — amounted to children “becoming guinea pigs in some distorted social experiment”.

At present in Scotland only one member of an unmarried couple can adopt and the other partner receives separate rights to live in the same house as the child. The proposal to extend full rights to gay and unmarried couples would bring the law on adoption in Scotland into line with that in England.

Cardinal O’Brien cited research which he said showed that children adopted by same-sex couples exhibited low self-esteem, confusion over their sexual identity, increased mental illness, drug use, promiscuity and homosexual behaviour. He added: “Children need a male and a female role model in a permanent relationship.”

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,170-1765121,00.html

G-d forbid that a gay couple were to teach children such virtues as tolerance and that there is not such thing as the "One True Faith!"

I would rather trust children in the hands of adoptive gay parents than in the hands of a Catholic priest!

:headbang:

gay folk die when jerks like that spout off with that kind of rhetoric.

he is to be flailed for that kind of language.

himself as an authority on child development? What kind of delusional thinking is this?

Does he mention that no *legitimate* authorities in the field agree with him?

And what's his "research" , exactly?

research? Are they credible - or some homophobic fundaMENTAList type.