Posted on 04/20/2006 5:41:25 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher
BELGIUM has voted into law a controversial bill allowing homosexual couples to adopt children, Belga news agency reported.
The upper house of parliament, the Senate, today approved the bill by a razor-thin 34 votes to 33, with two abstentions.
The vote in the lower house of parliament in December 2005 had also been narrow, at 77 votes to 62, with seven abstentions.
Homosexual couples in Belgium won the right to marry in June 2003 and more than 5000 people have taken advantage of that law since it came into force.
Now that the new law has been definitively approved, they will share the same rights as heterosexual couples to adopt children, whether the child comes from Belgium or abroad.
Supporters of the adoption law stress that many homosexual couples are already raising children in Belgium but that those children are not protected by law, notably in cases of separation or if one of the parents dies.
"This bill means children can enjoy a genuine statute, which is essential for their development. Their situation is not a shameful one," Justice Minister Laurette Onkelinx told the Senate.
Elsewhere in Europe, England, Wales, the Netherlands and Spain have also enacted laws granting homosexual couples the right to adopt children.
Nobody should be in any doubt that all this gay "marriage" crap is aimed at allowing gay adoption!
No surprises there. Europe becomes more decadent with each passing day
I have been extremely bearish on EU for some time -- still am. However, I've been reading some Chesterton. It makes me think that, at some point, it may find its soul -- or perhaps have it bought back.
A good friend of mine just came back from Germany over Easter (visiting his son in the USAF). This was his and his wife's first time to Europe and he was amazed at the 'decadence" compared to the US. He said we are "downright puritanical" compared to them. Having spent a fair amount of time there I have to agree!
With their abortion and illegitmacy rate, where exactly are babies for adoption going to come from?
They claimed ending same sex sodomy laws was about "consenting adults in private" but here adopted children do not consent to being brought into an alternative lifestyle. They are an accessory for those who failed the reproduction lessons of sex ed.
(Also the consenting "adults" thing was a lie as it legtimized teenage homosexuality as well). And if this were in private, who would know?
Adoption is not a right, except for a woman to be able to choose the type of people she chooses to give up her children to.
"I think you would be surprised at the number of homo's in Muslim countries. The biggest difference is in these countries it still has the stigma attached and is punished harshly. Here's it's seen as a badge of honor."
The majority of societies in the world regard homosexuality as something to keep oppressed. It's a natural human response to it. Muslim countries, Eastern European countries, Russia, China, the Far East... all regard homosexuality in a negative way, and that's part of their culture. It's only Western democratic nations that have this philosophy that all people should be treated equally, in all aspects of their lives.
It's not about democracy, but natural human gut reaction and common sense.
Homosexual adoption. List.
Belgium approves gay adoption
Belgium is already gearing up for "post-birth" infanticide, so this really isn't a surprise.
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