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National Marriage Coalition opposes Adoption Amendment, urges children's right to father and mother

The National Marriage Coalition speaks out against the Adoption Amendment (Same Sex Couples) Bill 2010, hence “Bill”, which the NSW Parliament aims to extend adoption ‘rights’ to gays and lesbians. The Coalition claims that the push has serious implications for marriage in Australia as the begetting and raising of children is best and most appropriate in the context of marriage.

Gerard Calilhanna, a spokesman for the National Marriage Coalition, said, “The implication of the Bill undercuts the role of marriage because it removes, in law, the necessity of a child having a mother or a father. If two men can adopt, the motherhood is irrelevant, if two women can adopt, then fatherhood is irrelevant.

A child’s natural birthright is a mother and a father and the best social, economic and emotional environment for the conception, birth and raising of that child is in marriage. In adoption the right to a mother and father, though now not by one or both natural parents, does not abrogate this right. The right to a mother and father remains as an extension of this original natural family bond in the context of marriage.

This Bill breaks that bond, formally separating the child from his or her right to a mother and a father and, in consequence, separates the raising of a child from a mother and a father. Hence, the necessity of promoting marriage for this purpose disappears. Marriage no longer matters.”

Mr Calilhanna continued, “This undercuts the relationship between marriage and children, because if motherhood and fatherhood is no longer relevant to what is “in the child’s best interests”, as this Bill seeks to fulfil, then neither is marriage.

If we redefine the role and purpose of parenthood not to comprise a mother and a father, then we can redefine the necessary meaning of marriage as between a man and a woman, because, relative to children, these are no longer deemed necessary. For the sake of the children, we no longer need what marriage is, since the purpose that marriage serves relative to children changes.

On the basis of redefined parenting serving “the child’s best interests”, this pushes the parenting aspect of marriage also to change its meaning to accommodate two ‘parents’ of the same sex. We can then interchange any combination of two adults to fit the parenting role in marriage and thus help redefine marriage. The gay adoption push subverts the meaning of marriage and is another part of the campaign for gay marriage.

For the sake of children, their rights and their part in marriage the National Marriage Coalition opposes the push for same-sex adoption.”

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