Welcome to a breakpoint, a daily look in an ever-changing culture through the lens of

unchanging truth.

For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street.

There is no more important aspect of Christian cultural engagement in this cultural moment

than supporting strengthening and advancing the family.

After all, the single most reliable predictor of a child's long-term success is being raised by a married biological mom and dad.

In other words, God's design for the family bears wonderful fruit.

Now often stating this statistical truth elicits a good bit of feedback, especially from advocates of so-called same-sex marriage and LGBT-Q parenting, they insist that love makes a family, as if calling alternative relational arrangements a family

makes it so. It does not because to counter another repeated myth love is not love.

For example heterosexual love is not,

and that's before you get into the morality of the action.

Recently, when making that point in a breakpoint commentary,

an adoptive couple rightly

wrote in and asked for additional clarity. If love is not sufficient to make a

family, what about adoptive love? Isn't adopting family not a real family?

Now to be clear love is not enough in an of its is an adopting family, not a real family.

Now to be clear, love is not enough in and of itself to make a family.

But married adoptive love is as close to God's love as is humanly possible.

Adoption is beautiful.

The Colson Center has long advocated for adoption and adoptive families

including against legal obstacles to adoption,

especially aimed at Christian families.

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