Sarah Cain, Crisis Magazine, 12/13/24
The children who are up for adoption represent one of the most vulnerable demographics in any country, relying on the government and various bureaucratic agencies for the entirety of their welfare. The way they are treated is thus a reflection of our societal values, for it reveals our true priorities.
Russia has made the decision to forbid the adoption of Russian children to citizens of foreign nations if those countries allow so-called “gender transitioning.” The bill was signed into law after it passed both houses of Russia’s parliament. We can infer, then, that it had majority support among the political class—something that certainly wouldn’t be mirrored in the United States.
Russia is often villainized to fantastical proportions; but on social issues, the nation so often reflects where we ought to be. Protecting all children from the evil that is mutilation is a noble goal. Yet, American news outlets condemned Russia’s new law as “anti-LGBT legislation.” To be clear, Russia has denied adoptions to America since 2012, allegedly due to mishandling of child abuse cases and the scant prosecution of its offenders. Regardless, the revulsion at Russia’s latest law shows that it is no longer self-evident in America that protecting children from mutilation is obligatory. A case could be made that protecting children in America is no longer the priority that it used to be.
Increasingly, children who are up for adoption are being placed into the arms of homosexual men. Sometimes, such men purchase children outright via surrogacy. All of this we allow, and some even encourage it. Christians and conservatives have long since warned about the risk of child sexual abuse in these scenarios, in addition to denying the child of a healthy family dynamic through the absence of a mother. These concerns have been dismissed and ridiculed, and we are beginning to see the results.
There is a horrifying new trend in which homosexual pedophiles are adopting children for the sake of sexual exploitation and then sharing them with other homosexuals.
Cody Richison is a teacher who was recently arrested by the FBI for child pornography, at which time it also emerged that he had raped a child. His 10-year-old victim was a friend’s foster son, and he had talked about becoming a foster parent himself. Texts between himself and fellow-pedophile Joseph Sampson revealed Sampson asking, “You really want to do the pedo family thing?” to which he replied, “Yes, I do.” Cody talked in the same text exchange about a “guy in Henryetta that has a 3-4 year old.”
What we’re seeing is the emergence of homosexual couples acquiring children for this explicit purpose and then “sharing” such children within organized pockets. A similar situation occurred in Georgia, when Zachary and William Zulockrepeatedly sexually abused their adopted “sons” and filmed the acts to share with others. They even sold one of the children to another man so the boy could be sodomized for profit. That nightmarish situation continued for years before they were apprehended.
Allowing gay couples to adopt children is a relatively new phenomenon, but it has already become unexceptional (or even unquestionable) to many. There was once at least a tacit understanding that children need a mother and a father; and for that reason alone, a homosexual couple would not suffice. It was also once common to admit that pedophilia is more likely by people who have disordered sexual impulses, but nowadays, that’s a verboten topic.
Defenders of homosexual adoption often make bold statements about how “loving gay homes” are better than being in “the system.” They do not realize that such residences exemplify the specific context to which the phrase “the system” refers disparagingly. Houses that do not provide adoptive children with loving families are “the system.”
We should not be so quick to dismiss the woes of the foster care system as a mere heartless institutional building but, instead, as an institution that is neglectful and reckless about where it places children. From the outside, sometimes children who are placed in homes look like they are in “families,” and it is therefore easier for our sensibilities than something that looks and feels too close to a prison or a hospital. Yet, a home is not inherently better than communal housing.
To answer the loud objections: yes, heterosexual pedophilia exists and even sometimes takes place in adoptive homes. Evil finds many quarters. Yet, pedophilia is much less likely to be the reasonfor such adoption, at least because it would be statistically improbable for both mother and father to have sexual attraction to the child.
While we cannot prevent every case of abuse, we should do everything possible to reduce the chances of it occurring, which includes not placing children in the homes of those with disordered sexual appetites.
Our reluctance to talk about these issues represents our placement of cowardice over the lives and welfare of some of the most vulnerable children. Being pro-life was never limited to ensuring children’s birth, and fighting against these injustices must be a segment of that movement.
Giving children in foster care and those up for adoption the best possible chance ought to be among our highest priorities. We can accomplish this by working to remove financial barriers to adoption, encouraging married couples to have children (naturally or via adoption), and ensuring that those most likely to be a threat to children are not given custody of them. It is what we can do for the least among us.
Homosexuals are not fit to be parents because they don’t know what love is. If they did they wouldn’t traumatize children with their perverted sexual desires, they would give them TLC – tender loving care.
They don’t care about or love anybody, they just respond to their own twisted sexual desires. I wouldn’t trust any of them with my life since they have no empathy, no altruism, no regard for others with their lives so focused on their sexual deviancy.
They’re actually so always at war with those who aren’t deviants that they have room, no respect, for anything else, not even morals.