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| Pictured above are Mark Newton (right) and Peter Truong with their adopted | son |
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During the same month that
U. S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy was issuing his opinion
that the Defense of Marriage Act “humiliated tens of thousands of
children now being raised by same-sex couples,” Russia’s House of
Parliament voted unanimously to ban the adoption of Russian children
by same-sex couples from abroad. The House also voted to forbid single
people who are citizens or permanent residents of countries that allow
same sex marriage to become adoptive parents or legal guardians of
Russian children.
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin, who has already expressed support for the adoption ban, has promised to sign the bill once it is submitted for its final reading during the Russian parliament’s autumn session. Putin has strong support from the Head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, who sees the recognition of same sex unions as a “portent of doom” and has called upon Russians to ensure that sin is never formalized by the rule of law. In a Sunday service in Red Square’s Kazan Cathedral on July 20th, the Patriarch said “we face enormous temptations when countries start approving sin and codifying it into law in order to justify it.”
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Anne Hendershott is Professor of Sociology at Franciscan University in Steubenville. Previously, she taught for fifteen years as a tenured faculty member at the University of San Diego. She is the author of Status Envy: The Politics of Catholic Higher Education; The Politics of Abortion; and, most recently, The Politics of Deviance (Encounter Books).
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