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BBBCanada
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Posted 8/24/2012 2:20 AM (GMT -6)

reknew.org/2012/08/we-are-all-weird-adopted-kids/

Couple of things, I find it interesting that many Christians say you are forcing your views on society, say, with same sex marriage, but in this case that Greg presents here, though it is based in his view of God, they don't have a problem with it?

Second, basing his view in God's adoption for us is like saying we should run our politics on what the church looks like. But there are some things that a church should do that should not be replicated in politics. So for me, one is not REQUIRED to care for kids simply because one uses verses like James 1:27: Pure and undefiled religion before God the Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their misfortune and to keep oneself unstained by the world. Or Matt 25:40, 45: And the king will answer them, 'I tell you the truth, just as you did it for one of the least of these brothers or sisters of mine, you did it for me.'

One could, I think, reasonably expect that we should strengthen families, thus allowing for families to take care of their children. If the immediate family doesn't work, then next to kin. If that doesn't work then churches and/or private charity should step in. If that doesn't work then government in the form of those children becoming wards of the state or crown should be in place.

However, some folk are ill prepared, on many levels, to take care of children and that may be the case with the b/f of the girl who wrote the email.

Brandon

Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.--Saint Augustine

Similitude
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Posted 8/25/2012 8:54 PM (GMT -6)

Unless I heard the Pat Robertson video wrong, the one stated reason why the man didn't want to marry into adopted children was because there was no child support coming in for them. In other words, it was about economics if the claim was true. This could mean they wanted to marry in part to ease their own economic condition. Men aren't per se obligated to marry (1 Cor. 7). Therefore, they aren't per se obligated to marry for motivations they don't have.

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