In "Lesbian & Gay Parenting," a booklet published by the APA "to serve the needs of psychologists, lawyers and parties in family law cases," the group even infers that same-sex couples might make better parents than heterosexual couples. "The results of some studies suggest that lesbian mothers' and gay fathers' parenting skills may be superior to those of matched heterosexual couples," the booklet says.
These groups are aiming to carry out a revolution that overturns the basic organizing unit of human society, the family. But they can only succeed if they also overturn our moral and religious foundations.
There can be no doubt that when 70 percent of Nebraska voters approved the state's marriage amendment, they were acting on those moral and religious foundations. The Ten Commandments, after all, puts a heavy focus on marriage and family: "Honor thy father and mother." "Thou shall not commit adultery." "Thou shall not covet they neighbor's wife."
Jesus personally defined marriage: "Have you not read that from the beginning the Creator 'made them male and female', and said, 'For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh'? So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore, what God has joined together, no human being must separate."
Either the Old and New Testaments are right about marriage and family, or the APA and the NASW are right. There is no middle ground.
As long as Congress fails to send a marriage-protection amendment to the states for ratification, the APA and NASW will have a chance of winning a "right" in federal court for same-sex couples to create children through modern technology and then adopt them. That, of course, will deny children their God-given right to claim, let alone honor, both a father and a mother. But these groups don't care about that.
Their aim is not to advance the welfare of children, it is to secure for same-sex couples the children nature denies them. Another Bible story holds the definitive rebuttal to their suit: Solomon knew a true mother would rather give up the child she loved than see it done irreparable harm.