It seems that Paul Ryan is not so Catholic after all?
Rep. Ryan has now gone on record supporting gay adoption, even as Catholic institutions that are closing to avoid the immoral practice.
The 2012 Republican vice presidential nominee — and potential 2016 GOP presidential contender — announced his change of heart during a town hall event in Janesville, Wis. this week, WKOW-TV reported. He voted to ban same-sex adoption in the District of Columbia as a newly-minted congressman in 1999.
“Adoption, I’d vote differently these days,” Ryan said Monday. “I do believe that if there are children who are orphans who do not have a loving person or couple, you know, I think if a person wants to love and raise a child they ought to be able to do that. Period. So I would vote that way.”
He then tried to bolster his bonafides by saying he doesn’t support gay marriage.
With logic like this, I suppose that the best that can be said of him is that he doesn’t support gay marriage…yet.
I am very disappointed in Rep. Ryan. I suggest that all the Catholic adoption agencies that face extinction or have already perished for refusing to support gay adoption give Rep. Ryan a call.
May 4, 2013 at 2:20 am
Anonymous 2 May 5:48 P.M., Thank you.
Anonymous 3 May 12:11 A.M., Here's a detail. Flannery O'Conner said she hoped that anyone who found a copy of Atlas Shrugged in the subway, she hoped would toss it in the trash bin where it belonged. I agree. At times that it became re-popularized I tried to read it. I'm not sure why I tried because generally popular doesn't appeal to me. Anyway three times I just couldn't get very far. Each time
I found it very boring and rather trashy. I also in the past saw film of interviews and I wasn't impressed. At the time, I was young and I thought surely she was much smarter than I and I just couldn't grasp it. Later I thought she wasn't so smart after all. Cheers everyone.
May 5, 2013 at 2:44 am
Folks,
Trust no man, other than Jesus Christ.
That said…has anyone examined whether he offered any motive or justification for this view?
There are three ways I could see this going:
1. The despicable wussing-out view: "Well, I examined my conscience and I feel that it wouldn't be loving to exclude anyone from…" …blah, blah, blah, you guys know how the rest of that one goes, but I just ate and I don't want to make myself ill by mouthing the usual weak-minded heterodox platitudes.
2. The "what if it's a choice between a gay parent and no parent at all?" view. This one is politically/culturally naive, and I had hoped that Ryan wasn't that. But you have these folks moved by compassion for some little orphan Annie minus the red hair and the Daddy Warbucks, wasting away in an orphanage run by a Miss Hannigan clone, and thinking, "Hey, this kid would have a significantly nicer, and maybe even a longer, life if they got adopted by Ellen Degeneres and went to live in a mansion."
3. The mainstream-media-hears-what-it-wants-to-hear possibility: Until the coverage has sat out there for awhile and the original quotes have been combed-over for a bit, I'm not 100% confident that he didn't, immediately after the quote given above, say something like, "Although, it should be noted that I have in mind a foster parent who is living chastely and who has shown no inclination to inculcate their own preferences as normative in the minds of children." That's the kind of language a mainstream reporter would instinctively zip past without comprehension as the headlines made possible by the first half of the quote danced in his eyes: "ZOMG! Neanderthal Ryan grows forebrain and approves gay adoption…can his own coming-out be far behind?"
So: It looks like the man is deceived and ought to be prayed for.
That said, the evidence is thin for Ryan being a full-fledged reprobate. Let's keep open our options that he isn't entirely lost to eternity, fellows.
May 5, 2013 at 2:42 pm
What's most dissappoining to me is that so many Catholics put their faith in a political party. How did we get into cherrypicking different aspects of our Church's faith and morals and marrying ourselves to a political party?
May 5, 2013 at 3:44 pm
Absurd. Unjust. Homosexual relationships are intrinsically evil, based on a lie. It is evil to put or allow a child to be put into such a terrible situation. It is cruel, and abusive and will cause adverse repercussions well beyond childhood. Imagine one's one child being put into such an unnatural situation. Every child needs his mother and father. If it is not possible to be reared by his mother and father, we have a duty to ensure insofar as possible he or she gets an adoptive mother and father, married to each other. Our children deserve nothing less. Has he lost his mind??
May 6, 2013 at 5:34 pm
If the GOP is running on the platform of limited and smaller government and more on respecting the will of the people, then it's respecting that will no matter how they run contrary to the truth a consequence of those premises? I don't Ryan's position either. I am for standing up for what is true and moral, for God in the public square.