And Catholic Charities has shown itself to be especially adept at placing those difficult to place children. Yes, anyone who is willing to take in such children, any children without a home, are commendable for that. Even it is proven scientifically that children are negatively developmentally affected by being raised by same-sex parents, that does not change the fact that there are much worse situations that they could be in.
But I find it extremely difficult to accept the notion that Catholics should be expected to compromise their ideals in order to do good and the mentality that would demonzie them for not making that compromise. The freedom to hold our own ideals only exists when it corresponds to the ideals of the currently in power zietgiest? (Catholicism finding itself doubly screwed as it is incompatible with both of the competing zeitgeists that dominate our culture.) And I have a hard time accepting it as a pragmatic proposition, since the compromise of ideals espoused by Catholicism is what put most of those children in that situation in the first place.
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Date: 2006-03-13 07:59 pm (UTC)But I find it extremely difficult to accept the notion that Catholics should be expected to compromise their ideals in order to do good and the mentality that would demonzie them for not making that compromise. The freedom to hold our own ideals only exists when it corresponds to the ideals of the currently in power zietgiest? (Catholicism finding itself doubly screwed as it is incompatible with both of the competing zeitgeists that dominate our culture.) And I have a hard time accepting it as a pragmatic proposition, since the compromise of ideals espoused by Catholicism is what put most of those children in that situation in the first place.