I knew you would take me to task over that! So before I reply a little excuse, I'm just getting over a cold, not much sleep last two nights, add to that that I'm not a writer and find it difficult sometimes to get what I want to say in some coherent order. And this is a difficult subject that I see 'through a glass darkly'.
So first I did say that a large number of situations are imperfect, but that's one thing, it's in the nature of life and different to a designed imperfection like having two men or a deliberately single woman raise a child. When I said 'you have to make the best of it' I wasn't thinking so much of the child as the parent, say a woman who has been abandoned by her husband, as happened to my daughter actually, she has two girls three and six years old and with some family help she's making the best of it.
As for this whole gay thing, I'm not against them being able to be open about it, I'm not against civil unions for them, where I get disturbed is the loudness of their demands and the not being satisfied that they've achieved all that they deserve in society. Here in Toronto each summer they have a full weekend of 'Gay Pride' events, including on the Sat a lesbian parade down Church St. [ironic that they pick a street with that name!] and on Sun. a gay parade. I would have thought it enough that they could celebrate in the open with cheering crowds their 'gayness', but no, they have to flaunt it, by 'it' I mean all their various body parts, and the police look on, the Mayor and other civic 'dignitaries' join the parade and for someone my age I see another 'vogue', fashionable political correctness gone way beyond any semblance of common sense.
So I see this vogue for giving them whatever they feel they can demand behind allowing gays to adopt, and no one questions whether it's in the long term interest of the children involved. There will be exceptions if anyone is wise enough to discern them, Elton John may well be one of them, he's rich and the child is in a particularly dire situation
I liken it a bit to the sixties vogues of feminism and free love, we all know what that has led to but at the time anyone who might question it was a fuddy duddy and beyond the Pale.
While I've been home today, I was able to do more than my usual amount of browsing the blogs and two articles caught my eye as being somehow relevant to this but don't expect me to try to say why tonight, or any other night come to that. This is the seeing through a glass darkly bit. First this by Dr. Sanity:
http://drsanity.blogspot.com/2009/09/personal-responsibility-and-golden-age.html
and this from American Thinker:
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/09/our_sexual_identity_crisis.html
I'd do hyperlinks but I sometimes have trouble with those in comment boxes.
Lastly an admission of sorts. I can't stand Elton John! Most of his music is crap to me, as is he. That Candle in the Wind thing was awful enough when he wrote if for Marylin, but there was a certain sadness and understanding to it, but to re-cycle it for Diana was as good a demonstration of the crassness of EJ himself.
OK, I'm done.
When it comes to kids generally I would put them first. I'm aware that a large number are in imperfect situations for various reasons, but in most cases those situations weren't designed, they happened and you make the best of it.
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