Perverting God's Order

God's Word lays out for us a plan for healthy relationships, including strong families.  He provides a strong foundation for gender and sexuality, and we can be confident that His ways will yield the outcomes He desires.  But, disobedience and the resulting corruption results in families that do not provide the healthy environment that is built on obedience to His principles.  The Bible says in Genesis 1 (ESV), following the creation of humanity:
27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.
28 And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth. ”

In December of last year, I reported about a heartbreaking story out of Walton County, GA. ChristianNews.net had stated: "A homosexual 'married' couple from Walton County will spend the rest of their lives in prison without the possibility of parole after being convicted of sexually abusing their two adopted children."  The article went on to say: "William and Zachary Zulock were found guilty on multiple charges related to the abuse, according to the Alcovy Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office, which covers Walton and Newton counties."  It also reported:  "A search of the Zulocks’ home revealed disturbing evidence. The couple had adopted two young boys, and during interviews, both men confessed to sexually abusing the children. Investigators also reviewed two weeks’ worth of footage from the home’s interior surveillance cameras, which showed multiple instances of abuse. Additionally, the defendants’ cell phones contained graphic material and conversations related to the abuse."

The Daily Citizen recently reported, based on an article on the Them Before Us Website that a study of "people sentenced for producing child pornography showed, when controlling for the population, children living with an unrelated male adult were over 900% more likely to be sexually abused than those living with biological fathers."

The article notes that psychologists Martin Daly and Margo Wilson found that "stepparents beat their children to death at a 100 times higher rate per capita than children living with their biological parents."   The article says: "There is no greater statistical threat to a child than an unmarried male living in the home."

This data was shared in the article centered around a breathtaking event in Canada.  The Daily Citizen story led off by saying:

Three men in a polyamorous relationship purchased a three-year-old girl from the Quebec government last month — a frightening arrangement that prioritizes the men’s desire to legitimize their relationship over the young girl’s rights and safety.

The Quebec Youth Protection Service awarded Eric LeBlanc, Jonathan Bedard and Justin Maheu custody of the young girl when she was just one. These men legally became her “parents” on September 11.

At least one prospective adoption agency refused the “throuple” because Quebec does not award parental authority to more than two adults, LeBlanc told CTV News. The Youth Protection Service was reportedly “more open.”

LeBlanc said: "Through that process, they learned that we are a little different because we’re three, but we’re not different from any other family..." Daily Citizen writer Emily Washburn took issue with LeBlanc's perspective, writing: "Of course they are. In fact, there are few places more dangerous for that young girl than with three unrelated, adult males.   And, that declaration was based on a New York Times article.

Washburn went on to write:

Children statistically do best in the shared home of their married, biological mother and father. This is, in part, because the biological tie between parent and child guarantees better parental buy-in.

“Children reliably move their [biological] mothers and fathers to invest, secure, protect and nurture them,” child advocate Josh Wood writes for Them Before Us. “And they do so at a level no substitute arrangement consistently matches.”

Numerous studies show stepparents, in contrast, do not invest as much time and energy into biologically unrelated children in their care. Evolutionary psychologists Martin Daly and Margo Wilson coined this phenomenon the “Cinderella Effect.”

This little girl will always feel the loss of her biological parents.

Washburn notes that, "Numerous studies show stepparents, in contrast, do not invest as much time and energy into biologically unrelated children in their care."  She relates that Daly and Wilson call this the “Cinderella Effect," and notes, "This little girl will always feel the loss of her biological parents."  She begins to conclude the article by writing:

CTV News captioned their interview with the “throuple”: “Three men and their daughter want their family recognized by the Quebec government.”

That is a lie. That child is not “their daughter,” because no child can have more than one father. She doesn’t care about family recognition; she wants her biological mother and father back, or the closest approximation to them.

Instead, the Quebec government sold her to three men who wanted a child to complete their parody of domestic bliss.

This occurs when a society with a warped view of family tries to "engineer" a family arrangement that is clearly outside of God's plan.  Many, I know, are navigating difficult family arrangements, some not of their own choosing.  This is different - it's a selfish, uninformed attempt to redefine a family and to reject the statistical data that would lead to protecting children, not putting them in harm's way.

There's a reason why you have Christian adoption agencies that reject the concept of gay adoption - it does not represent God's best and is not consistent with His ways.  And, it's not good for the child.  Yet, the social engineers want to force Christian adoption agencies to violate their deeply-held beliefs about family and sexuality and manufacture unhealth family structures.

Katy Faust of Them Before Us is right: when making societal decisions, we must take into consideration what is best for the child.  This differs from making the child the center of the home - different issue.  But, selfish parents do not contribute to the best possible outcome for the child.  In our decision-making, on any issue, we should always consider the love of God and His principles and reject selfishness.