Silhouette, do you support allowing catholics to adopt?
Only if they don't support pedophilia or pedophile priests. While catholic leaders suffer from an epidemic of pedophila [confirmed as socially-transmittable mental illness...see Mayo Clinic info below] they see it as a problem. The don't emulate pedophile priests as 'representative of the catholic church around the nation and the world' [see last quote below]
The question for this thread is the overt, expressed, unapologetic and public promotion of sex with or around the view of children as something LGBTs as a culture are "proud" of.
...and seek in no way to rebuke, correct, punish, remedy, counsel or otherwise suppress in their ranks.
In other words, "yes" LGBTs have a lot in common with the priesthood of the catholic church. The difference is LGBTs are PROUD of sex acts in public around kids and making kids celebrate pedophile's sexuality and the catholic church is NOT PROUD of it in their ranks.
Though the genesis is the same for both groups.
Mayo Clinic 2007
One of the most obvious examples of an environmental
factor that increases the chances of an individual becoming
an offender is if he or she were sexually abused as a child.
This relationship is known as the “victim-to-abuser cycle”
or “abused-abusers phenomena.”
5,23,24,46...
...
why the “
abused abusers phenomena” occurs: identification with the aggressor,
in which the abused child is trying to gain a new
identity by becoming the abuser;
an imprinted sexual
arousal pattern established by early abuse; early abuse
leading to hypersexual behavior; or a form of social learning took place http://www.drrichardhall.com/Articles/pedophiles.pdf
Altar boys are inducted by inappropriate contact. They in turn become priests and contact young altar boys in turn and the cycle entrenches itself through the generations.
Likewise, gays are molested as boys, they in turn molest other boys who grow up "gay" as an imprinted result and in turn via the "abused-abuser" phenomenon, molest youngsters and they grow up to do the same...etc...
ATLANTA [2005 Clinical Psychiatry News] -- Substance abuse is pervasive among gay men and is so intricately intertwined with epidemics of depression, partner abuse, and childhood sexual abuse that adequately addressing one issue requires attention to the others as well, said Ronald Stall, Ph.D., chief of prevention research for the division of HIV/AIDS prevention at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta...
Clinical intervention would stop these cycles. And of course that has been halted in California and New Jersey by ...drum roll...gay politicians... It's an addiction and they don't want the "supply" stopped...until they're too old to turn back to normal.
So...I hope that answers your question. The difference is one of "embodiment and pride" of the culture's values vs "distance and shame" in the catholic church from the same etiology of the same identical social-disease...
(a) Harvey Bernard Milk was born on May 22, 1930, in Woodmere, New York.
He was the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in a major city of the United States. He was assassinated in 1978 at San FranciscoÂ’s City Hall by a political rival. Perhaps
more than any other modern figure, Harvey MilkÂ’s life and political career embody the rise of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) civil rights movement in California, across the nation, and throughout the world....
...4) May 22 of each year as Harvey Milk Day.
(b) On each of the days designated in subdivision (a),
all public schools and educational institutions are encouraged to observe those days and to conduct suitable commemorative exercises as follows
Bill Text - SB-572 Harvey Milk Day: official designation.
From Harvey Milk's biography: "Harvey Milk always had a penchant for young waifs with substance abuse problems" page 180 of The Mayor of Castro Street; The Life and Times of Harvey Milk.
And of the "young waifs" Milk plucked off the streets as an orphan on drugs was a minor in New York. He sodomized him and officiated as this boy's "father figure/guardian" at the same time.
LGBTs know this and they CELEBRATE and defend it. And in California as a matter of law they require kids to celebrate and defend it. When catholics find this out about one of their own, they groan, issue apoligies, cash settlements and shame the man responsible.
BIG DIFFERENCE. Hope that answers your question.