Sunday, April 23, 2006

Gay Adoptions, Defy Nature?

Animals“The Indiana Court of Appeals has ruled in favor of gay adoption, two judges in the majority and one dissenting. One thing is clear: Two judges have defied nature and God…,” writes Bloomington’s Church of the Good Shepherd pastor to the editor of IndyStar.com.
Have these judges really defied nature and God?
In Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversity — based off a ten year study by biologist Bruce Bagemihl — there is evidence that hundreds of species have homosexuals among them. In some species the percentage of those gay is around 10%; however, in some cases the number is as much as 30-60%. If homosexuality was against nature then why did God create hundreds of species containing tens of thousands of homosexuals?
But what I found interesting about Bagemihl’s book is that evidence shows that homosexual behavior in the animal world wasn’t just about sex. For example, when a particular species was known to mate for life, there existed homosexual couplings within that species who mated for life as well.
What’s also interesting is that oftentimes when a young fledgling was abandoned or otherwise orphaned, homosexual couplings would take it in and raise it as its own — protecting it, feeding it, teaching it how to survive. Thus, homosexual couplings often became adoptive parents to offspring that would otherwise have no parents at all.
Interesting. Maybe God is trying to tell us something here.
from The Purple Pew

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