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Klobmentum Mutilated Herself
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« on: January 20, 2022, 12:49:40 PM »

Of course it should be an option to want to place a kid in a Christian home. 
No, it shouldn't. Adoption should be about finding a good home for a kid, above anything else. A family's religion should not a determining factor in whether or not they're suitable to adopt. There are plenty of non-Christian families with good homes who want to adopt and care for a kid — to make a kid wait longer to find a Christian home than they could've had to wait if non-Christians were allowed is a policy that should disqualify someone from running an adoption agency.
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Klobmentum Mutilated Herself
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« Reply #1 on: January 20, 2022, 01:00:18 PM »

Of course it should be an option to want to place a kid in a Christian home.  
No, it shouldn't. Adoption should be about finding a good home for a kid, above anything else. A family's religion should not a determining factor in whether or not they're suitable to adopt. There are plenty of non-Christian families with good homes who want to adopt and care for a kid — to make a kid wait longer to find a Christian home than they could've had to wait if non-Christians were allowed is a policy that should disqualify someone from running an adoption agency.
Some people believe that a Christian home is a good home. Maybe you disagree, but you can’t bully people into following your beliefs with the law.
You have a really low threshold for what constitutes bullying if sharing an opinion on a message board is bullying.

The United States Constitution makes separation between church and state the law. I don't think that any private adoption agency should exist if they limit adoptions to families of a certain demographic, but that's my personal view. This law allows taxpayer-funded adoption agencies to discriminate by religion; that is not constitutional.

Is the Constitution bullying?
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« Reply #2 on: January 20, 2022, 09:19:12 PM »

I'm sure life might be more comfortable in a wealthy non-Christian home than in an orphanage or in a poor Christian home.  But, eternal Salvation is more important than Earthly comfort.  If I were a teenager and had strong faith, I could see an argument for going to the non-Christian home to witness to them, but very few 8 year olds have that strong of faith.
This isn't a theocracy. The job of government isn't to be concerned with salvation. Any government that tells its suffering people to focus on god is a government that should be overthrown.

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I wouldn't say that non-Christian parents are worse parents by Earthly standards.
Last I checked, we live on Earth, so Earthly standards suffice quite well.
  My mom is an atheist and gave me what the world would call a good and comfortable upbringing. 

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With that said, the role of a parent is not just to get your kid to college at 18 physically safe and capable of doing the work.  The most important role of a parent is to lead their child spiritually.
The most important role of a parent can be debated, but leading their child spiritually is not by any measure a part of that discussion.

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« Reply #3 on: January 21, 2022, 01:48:49 PM »

As long as Jewish and other religious groups can also deny Christian parents if they want I don’t see a problem here. It’s not hard to understand why someone who believed faith in Christ was the key to salvation wouldn’t want to give their child to practitioners of a different religion no matter how loving or moral the people might be. Now I don’t agree with this but I understand it.
You just described the argument for Separate But Equal, congratulations.
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