OldShep

My daughter was on staff at Cru for some time until she got married. Thier reasoning is valid and it's a good move. Campus does not reflect their whole mission, Crusade is offensive to many of the people they are trying to reach and they get a very quick introduction to Christ when comversations start up. It's a good thing. yeah, what he said! I have friends in Egypt and China undercover, teaching the word of God, in both places they could be killed for doing so. As Jesus said: Mat_10:16 I am sending you out like sheep among wolves. Therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves. The Egyptians used the serpent in their hieroglyphics as a symbol of wisdom. Probably the thing in which Christ directed his followers to imitate the serpent was in its caution in avoiding danger. No animal equals them in the rapidity and skill which they evince in escaping danger. So said Christ to his disciples, You need caution and wisdom in the midst of a world that will seek your lives. He directs them, also, to be harmless, not to provoke danger, not to do injury, and thus make their fellow-men justly enraged against them. Doves are, and always have been, a striking emblem of innocence. Most people would foolishly destroy a serpent, be it ever so harmless, yet few are so hard-hearted as to kill a dove.

I am saddenned to hear that. I believe there are many homosexual couples of good moral character that have plenty of love to shower on a child in need of that love. I am saddenned that if you were in power to deny them that opportunity, you would, solely based on their being homosexuals. Regards, UF "if you were in power to deny them that opportunity, you would" I deny no one! However, I would have no part in the issuing of those papers, base on my personal principals and the things I have seen in life, which are many, one of which lead to the death of the child in a Gay household. " I believe there are many homosexual couples of good moral character that have plenty of love to shower on a child in need of that love." No doubt there are, but that doesn't mean I should abandon my personal principals. So my answer would be NO! nothing more needs to be said.

The homosexual couples I know who adopt children do so because they have love to share with children, and adopt for this reason, and not for political reasons. I dislike adoption agencies who have a policy of not accepting adoptive gay parents. I agree with you that for HEALTHY INFANTS, there is a waiting list to adopt them. However, you probably know as well as I do, that the children who most need to be adopted are not HEALTHY INFANTS, but are either older children who have been in the foster care system for years or have health issues (crack babies, e.g.), or both. These are the children that linger in foster care and need most to be adopted. I wonder at those people making decisions of not considering loving gay couples as potential adoptive parents for some of these children. Regards, UF I think the people that decide these things, first need to look at the needs of the child above all other things. They need parents, as in two, that will love them and raise them with-in the moral laws of the country they live in, They need to know who they are and a chance to find out who they are. Like all people, homosexual couples put on false faces at times. No all guy couples would be good parents and not all mother, father couples are good parents. Members of my family this past year have adopted 5 (five) kids, all under 7 8 we just had a Birthday. All I can say is "Thank-God" it was not me that adopted them, I can not keep up with one, never mind 5 at a time. So once every 2 weeks, I visit with one at a time. By the way, we were the foster care people of these kids, and plans are set up to include them all in any and all benefits that the other two children will get in time. The adopted parents are now so busy, that most of the time, one of the older children watch the younger ones. I have taken on the part time job in teaching the boys how to work with their hands, like using a measuring tape, math problem, using a saw, and trying to find out their interest. Oh 4 boys and one girl. If I were a person that was working in one of these places, I do believe I would choose not to give a pair of homosexual people the papers to adopted any child, I would also be prepared to either quit or go to Jail for not following a State Order. Romans Chapter 13 tells us that we should follow all the laws made by those in power, for they were put there by the providence of God. However, their requirements “may be” opposed to the Law of God, and then we are to obey God rather than man; Act_4:19; Act_5:29. But it is meant that the power is entrusted to them by God; and that he has the authority to remove them when he pleases. If they abuse their power, however, they do it at their peril; and “when” so abused, the obligation to obey them ceases.