Religion & Law

Robert Araujo writes that when a child is a candidate for adoption, an opposite-sex couple can serve as fitting parents but that a same-sex couple cannot. ("But, again in my view, it is impossible for the same-sex couple to provide this substitution.")  I have lost count of the number of courts that have looked closely at the social-scientific data and concluded that there is not even a "rational basis" for the proposition that same-sex couples are inferior to opposite-sex couples in terms of the quality of their parenting.  This is not theology.  Facts are pesky things.  Take a stand against extending the benefit of law to same-sex unions, if your moral theology leads you to do so.  But don't pretend that the claim about the inferior quality of same-sex parenting is anything more than a prejudice.