Monday July 19, 2004

Germany Opens Door to Homosexual Adoption of Children

BERLIN, July 19, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Germany announced a plan Sunday to expand same-sex partnership laws to include allowing adoption of children.

The expanded law will also usher in more extensive pension rights, alimony for separated couples, and official registration of "engagements" by same-sex partners. The expanded law is set to come into effect January 1, 2005.

Christian Democratic member of parliament Norbert Röttgen said, "We don't know how homosexual relationships affect children." He vowed that his party would fight the new ruling all the way to the country's highest court if necessary, according to a dw-world report. Röttgen continued that homosexual adoption is ". . . a big risk that one takes. You're on safer ground if you place children up for adoption with married couples."

In 2000, the Pontifical Council on the Family wrote: "The bond between two men or two women cannot constitute a real family and much less can the right be attributed to that union to adopt children without a family."

Read the Pontifical Council on the Family document: Family, Marriage and "De facto Unions" (November 21, 2000)
http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/pontifical_councils/family/documents/rc_pc_family_doc_20001109_de-facto-unions_en.html

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