{"id":2293,"date":"2009-01-28T12:21:04","date_gmt":"2009-01-28T17:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=2293"},"modified":"2009-01-28T12:21:04","modified_gmt":"2009-01-28T17:21:04","slug":"the-church-and-state-destroying-families-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-church-and-state-destroying-families-together\/","title":{"rendered":"The church and state, destroying families together"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the UK, perversion trumps family; from Melanie Phillips<\/a>:\"Add<\/p>\n

To place children with two gay men when an adoptive mother and father are available, just to uphold a brutal dogma, is a sickening assault on family life.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The case in Edinburgh reported today, where precisely this grotesque development has occurred, illustrates the sickening way in which what started out as a decent attempt to be tolerant towards a minority lifestyle has turned into a totalitarian assault upon family life and human rights.<\/p>\n

For two years these grandparents fought for their right to care for the children, a five-year-old boy and his four-year-old sister, whose 26-year-old mother is a recovering heroin addict. But at 46 and 59 they were ruled to be too old to adopt.<\/p>\n

Reluctantly, therefore, they agreed to the children being adopted by another couple, on the basis they would be brought up by a loving mother and father figure. But although several heterosexual couples were available to adopt them, the children were handed over instead to two gay men.<\/p>\n

When the devastated grandparents objected they were threatened that unless they dropped their opposition they would never see their grandchildren again on account of their ‘negative’ attitude towards gay adoption.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If anyone should be standing up for the family and denouncing this type of state fascism, it is the Church.<\/p>\n

Instead, the Western Anglican church has given its tacit approval by capitulating to a corrupt culture. Anglican prelates declare that being gay is a gift from God<\/a>; pagan Canadian bishops bless as holy<\/a> something that isn’t – those that aren’t yet, will soon<\/a>; Rowan Williams, the Druid in Charge<\/a> opines dreamily that gay sex is equivalent to marriage<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Demented, cowardly bishops, having abandoned two millennia of doctrine, declare that their slavish, grovelling obeisance to the Zeitgeist is actually prophetic<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Lord have mercy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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