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br> Re: W. James Antle III's Marital Discord : /p>

Attacking gay marriage by attacking adoption -- are you completely nuts? Why is there an anti-adoption bias in conservative circles? Fear that it reduces the stigma of out-of-wedlock pregnancy? Eugenic fears? Racism?

Adoption is a profoundly conservative practice through which a baby or child is given a loving home and parents who raise him as their own, usually without government assistance.

In addition, of course, in order to be adopted, the baby has to live. For the "fetus" who is truly unwanted or whose biological parent(s) absolutely cannot care for her, there are only two options: death through abortion or life through adoption. You can't be wringing your hands over a biological mother placing her baby for adoption and pro-life at the same time.

For the child born overseas, there may be a third option: life in an orphanage, with many variations in quality. Although some older children might choose to stay in an orphanage, no one in their right mind would want a child to spend all their childhood in one and never experience what a family means.

The American system of adoption exemplifies all that is good and innocent about our country. In addition, the people who pioneered transracial adoption were conservative Christians, particularly Harry and Bertha Holt, who were called to adopt from Korea.

p>So, yeah, eat your own. Tell pregnant women that adoption is God-awful, tell the 100 million Americans touched by adoption that it's horrible, focus all your Pat Buchanan-like fears on someone's DNA and not knowing the Olde English/Chinese/Korean/Russian village their ancestors lived in since the BC's, and wonder why conservatives are losing. br> -- Mary Wardrip /p> p> W. James Antle III replies:

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