Two paradoxes

[faustus]

"We don't want to allow lesbians and gays to adopt because we want the widest possible selection of adopters."

"I can't play singles on my own."

Comments

[sam-t.livejournal.com]

For some reason, I initially read that as "... the widest possible selection of lobsters." I'm not sure what that says about me other than it's far too early for me to be at work.

Oysters or Lobsters?

[drasecretcampus.livejournal.com]

“Why don’t fundamentalists organize protests and picket seafood restaurants, oyster bars, church barbecue suppers, all grocery stores, barber shops, tattoo parlors, and stores that sell suits and dresses made of mixed wool, cotton, polyester, and other materials? All of these products and services are ‘abominations’ in Leviticus. When have you heard a preacher condemn the demonic abomination of garments that are made of mixed fabrics?”
Rembert Truluck, http://www.truluck.com/html/six_bible_passages.html

[peake.livejournal.com]

We're exempt from anti-discrimination legislation because it discriminates against us ...

loosely translated as: we should be allowed to be homophobic because we're religious bigots.

[drasecretcampus.livejournal.com]

I wish I'd written down the exact phrase used this morning (I think by the Archbishop of York): no laws should conflict with matters of conscience. So if your religion thought white people superior to your colonial cousins or you believe women should sit quietly at the back or walk paces behind, that's okay then.

I have to say I have problems with a universal right of parenthood, and the right of adoptive parenthood, but it has to be on a case by case basis. What are the Catholics/C of E afraid of? (It's potentially a cheap shot, but now is not the time for religious organisations to lecture us about child abuse, nor has it ever been - not that child abuse is limited to the religious.)