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Lesbian Couple Sues Sperm Bank after Baby is Born "Wrong" Color
Christian Headlines ^ | October 13, 2014 | John Stonestreet

Posted on 10/21/2014 10:17:23 AM PDT by xzins

This latest story from our brave new world may blow your mind, so I’ll read straight from the Chicago Tribune: “A white Ohio woman is suing a Downers Grove-based sperm bank, alleging that the company mistakenly gave her vials from an African-American donor, a fact that she said has made it difficult for her and her same-sex partner to raise their now 2-year-old daughter in an all-white community.”

Now, I don’t doubt the lesbian couple’s love for the child. But I find it troubling which challenges the couple was willing and isn’t willing to tolerate. They’re suing because of the difficulties of raising a black child in a white community, but they were perfectly willing to risk raising the child without a father—a situation that the best evidence suggests poses far greater consequences for the child. Make no mistake: this is one of those stories that’s a mirror of our culture’s view of sex and children.

There is no doubt that having a mom and a dad in the home is the best situation for healthy development of children. The evidence is overwhelming. Children with fathers in the home tend to do better in school and in life in general. Children from fatherless homes are more likely to succumb to drugs and alcohol, suicide, and a host of social maladies. It’s not always the case, of course, but when it’s not it should be the exception… not the new rule.

A while back, I interviewed science writer Paul Raeburn on “BreakPoint This Week” about his book “Do Fathers Matter.” Now Raeburn isn’t a Christian, and he wouldn’t take a position on the issue of same-sex marriage. But there was no doubt in his mind that the overwhelming conclusion of the research is that fathers matter. A lot. Relationally, emotionally, spiritually—even biologically!

Well, back to Ohio. The plaintiff is asking the judge for $50,000 because she didn’t get the baby she ordered through the sperm donation process. Which brings up the other troubling reality in this story.

When we were discussing this news item, Shane Morris, one of our Colson Center writers, wryly observed, “Grandma always says, ‘If it’s the wrong color, you can return it,’ when she gives us sweaters. Hearing that said of a baby girl makes me not want to live on this planet anymore.”

The wife of another of our writers said, “The message to the child is something like, ‘We love you, honey, but we are suing the people who made your existence possible.’” And then she added, “We need to pray for that child.”

Indeed. Whatever the effect of our current social experimentation of intentionally producing children to not have either a father or a mother, I cannot imagine that this child will easily be able to come to terms with such mixed messages inherent in the lawsuit.

On multiple levels, this story illustrates our new and enormous cultural blind spot. Sexual autonomy is now considered the highest good in our society. And it comes as a package deal with so-called “reproductive freedom.” To quote my friend and co-author Sean McDowell, we want sex without babies, and babies without sex.

And the great tragic irony is that our so-called freedom means that our children are not free, nor are they seen as the unique creations of God that they are. They’re the products of our illusions of autonomy enabled by technological advances.

We now wish to create children on our terms… through science. We choose the traits that make them desirable—eye color, hair color, skin color; athletic prowess; intelligence; and so on—not simply because they are. And if at any time they displease us—either through skin color, disability, or the mere timing of their birth, we feel fully justified in getting someone else to eliminate them, or at least pay us for our inconvenience.

Jesus said, “Let the children come to me.” And so ought we. As His Church, those lovingly adopted into His family, may we show our dehumanizing culture, and its children, a better way. Red and yellow, black and white, they are all precious in His sight.

BreakPoint is a Christian worldview ministry that seeks to build and resource a movement of Christians committed to living and defending Christian worldview in all areas of life. Begun by Chuck Colson in 1991 as a daily radio broadcast, BreakPoint provides a Christian perspective on today’s news and trends via radio, interactive media, and print. Today BreakPoint commentaries, co-hosted by Eric Metaxas and John Stonestreet, air daily on more than 1,200 outlets with an estimated weekly listening audience of eight million people. Feel free to contact us at BreakPoint.org where you can read and search answers to common questions.

John Stonestreet, the host of The Point, a daily national radio program, provides thought-provoking commentaries on current events and life issues from a biblical worldview. John holds degrees from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (IL) and Bryan College (TN), and is the co-author of Making Sense of Your World: A Biblical Worldview.

Publication date: October 13, 2014


TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: homosexualadoption; homosexualagenda; lesbian; napl; oops; spermbank; unnatural
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To: Plumberman27

> They sound like racists to me.

In the leftist pantheon, gender confusion trumps favored ancestries.


41 posted on 10/21/2014 12:06:46 PM PDT by Westbrook (Children do not divide your love, they multiply it.)
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To: xzins

Dear Lesbians, give up the child, because we would ADOPT him...


42 posted on 10/21/2014 12:13:55 PM PDT by ExCTCitizen (I'm ExCTCitizen and I approve this reply. If it does offend Libs, I'm NOT sorry...)
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To: xzins
One more reason why the conventional method is superior.  You know for darn sure who the donor is.


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43 posted on 10/21/2014 12:31:56 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Dunam, Duncan, man what infections these folks brought over.)
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To: dfwgator

Ditto that. How could they think that, much less sue and go public with it. They are despicable. What a beautiful toddler...so many couples not blessed with children would love to adopt her.


44 posted on 10/21/2014 12:43:12 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: xzins

“a fact that she said has made it difficult for her and her same-sex partner to raise their now 2-year-old daughter in an all-white community.”

Heres your solution: move to an all black community.


45 posted on 10/21/2014 12:46:29 PM PDT by lowbridge
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To: xzins

This is interesting because there is nothing more trendy in lesbian circles than to have a child or significant other of color.


46 posted on 10/21/2014 12:50:27 PM PDT by Chickensoup (Leftist totalitarian fascism is on the move.)
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To: BillyBonebrake

Now that IS weird! How could that happen?


47 posted on 10/21/2014 12:55:55 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: xzins

Racist Sodomy.!... WHat a concept...


48 posted on 10/21/2014 12:59:17 PM PDT by hosepipe (" This propaganda has been edited (specifically) to include some fully orbed hyperbole.. ")
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To: xzins

UGH Oh.. theres a thugg in the woodpile..


49 posted on 10/21/2014 1:01:48 PM PDT by hosepipe (" This propaganda has been edited (specifically) to include some fully orbed hyperbole.. ")
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To: xzins

Could be the donated sperm did not cause inception. Could be the mother had been hanging out at the Black Bird Cafe.


50 posted on 10/21/2014 1:12:07 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee (A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.)
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To: xzins

JHC!!
It’s a healthy baby. What else is necessary?


51 posted on 10/21/2014 1:22:21 PM PDT by Straight8
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To: Plumberman27

That’s what I thought too!


52 posted on 10/21/2014 1:32:55 PM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (Stop wishing for a perfect world. You may get it. Who will you talk to then?)
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To: Slump Tester

LOL.


53 posted on 10/21/2014 1:33:35 PM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (Stop wishing for a perfect world. You may get it. Who will you talk to then?)
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To: MrB

Sounds like liberal projection of thought to me.


54 posted on 10/21/2014 1:35:47 PM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (Stop wishing for a perfect world. You may get it. Who will you talk to then?)
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To: all the best

True.


55 posted on 10/21/2014 1:36:45 PM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (Stop wishing for a perfect world. You may get it. Who will you talk to then?)
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To: Slings and Arrows

I’ll send you an application. Filled mine out yesterday.


56 posted on 10/21/2014 1:38:07 PM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (Stop wishing for a perfect world. You may get it. Who will you talk to then?)
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To: BRK

Exactly.


57 posted on 10/21/2014 1:40:05 PM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (Stop wishing for a perfect world. You may get it. Who will you talk to then?)
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To: Uversabound

Agreed.


58 posted on 10/21/2014 1:41:09 PM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (Stop wishing for a perfect world. You may get it. Who will you talk to then?)
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To: jimmyo57
The look like they might be sisters! lol

That was exactly my thought. Not only are they lesbians, they're incestuous lesbians.

59 posted on 10/21/2014 1:41:29 PM PDT by ozarkgirl
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To: xzins

3 of my great grands are mixed raced, they are raised white and Christian, in white neighborhoods, middle class, no racism has ever reared it’s ugly head.

Just trying to sue for money.


60 posted on 10/21/2014 1:42:48 PM PDT by GailA (IF you fail to keep your promises to the Military, you won't keep them to Citizens!)
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