If Marriage is Designed for Pro-creation Should Christians Unable to Have Children Marry?
Breakpoint
Colson Center
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🗓️ 5 May 2021
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
John and Shane field a question on adoption. A listener wrote in to ask if adoption to a homosexual couple is better than a child being parentless.
They then work through a question on if a Christian should marry if the marriage looks to be childless.
John and Shane close the question and answer time looking at immigration. A listener asks for a worldview perspective on a topic that has become strongly politicized.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Breakpoint podcast in our Q&A segment Ask the Colson Center. I'm Shane Morris, |
| 0:06.0 | host of the upstream podcast and one of the writers here at Breakpoint. I'm joined today by John |
| 0:10.9 | Stone Street, president of the Colson Center and the voice of Breakpoint. Today we're answering |
| 0:15.4 | your questions. These were sparked by Breakpoint commentaries, short courses, and the Colson |
| 0:20.2 | Fellows program. |
| 0:21.3 | If you'd like to send us a question of your own for us to answer here on the podcast, |
| 0:24.8 | you can do that by emailing us at Ask the Colson Center at colsoncenter.org. |
| 0:30.3 | John, the first question we have today has to do with the definition of the family as it pertains to adoption. |
| 0:40.5 | We've sort of dealt a little bit with this issue earlier this year, I think. We did a couple of commentaries touching on it. But |
| 0:46.0 | there are questions about, you know, what constitutes a family in light of the needs of children, |
| 0:52.4 | especially children who are up for adoption, |
| 0:56.1 | who need a home. And so let me read this question. And then we can talk about all the different |
| 1:02.0 | facets we need to approach this from. This person writes, our family was together recently |
| 1:08.6 | sharing dinner. One point, the conversation went to the adoption agency that changed their position and are not placing children in the homes of same-sex couples. I expressed how shocked and disappointed I was. At this point, my son, who is 38, interjected that it's better for these children to be in a home where they're loved than to be in no home. My son is a |
| 1:28.7 | grounded Christian thinker, single. So I was taken aback and stunned. Would you please give |
| 1:33.6 | me your insight on this? I don't agree with him, but I'm not sure how to give him a biblical |
| 1:37.9 | rebuttal. Yeah, we hear this question a lot. I'll give you three quick angles on this. |
| 1:44.0 | The first angle is that a homosexual |
| 1:46.3 | couple, a same-sex couple is not a home or a family in any sort of natural design. So to say |
| 1:52.2 | that it's better for a child to be in that home rather than an orphanage or a care facility is just a mistake. |
| 2:04.2 | There's no evidence, first of all, that they'll do better in that context than in a loving, |
| 2:11.1 | caring group home or a facility or, you know, in foster care or or anything like that. |
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