' Yes, That's what we Said, No More Adoptions in India! Our Conscience has Spoken! You can cry, and you can Whine, and you can turn yourself inside out with anger, but just as sure as we are obedient Catholics and Mother Teresa's Missionaries we will no longer give 'our' children up to be adopted. You must remember, these are 'Our' children, not 'yours'. I see that you have a puzzled look on your face so I will explain the puzzle away for you. Now pay attention or I will give you Such a whack with this ruler! It's like This; Many years ago our sweet Mo...ther Teresa, bless her pious soul, saw the need of helping the poor and underprivileged souls, including the pitiful Twenty Million Orphan Urchins of the streets of India. All has been well in our little fantasy land of Nod..until Now. The foolish Government of this Idol worshipping country has now decided that in order to lessen the number of Orphans, and give them a better chance of finding a 'home', they will now allow, or So They Thought, just Anyone, including Homosexuals, and Other sinners who are Divorced, and even Single people, God forbid, to Adopt our poor needy cherubs. Not! Do they not realize just how Homophobic, rigid, and unchanging we Catholics Are? OMG! And I say that Respectfully Lord, but Can you imagine a Divorced person adopting an innocent Child? Oh that will Never Do I tell you! And a Single Person without benefit of The sanctity of blessed Marriage, and we're talking about Male and Female here people, No, No, No Way! Worst of all is the thought of a Homosexual adopting one of 'our' Children! How can this Be dear Lord!? Imagine what Any of these Sinners would be teaching our children! Without our expert guidance, our religious tolerance, our love of our fellow man, how would our beloved orphans even Begin to survive let alone Thrive in this sin filled World!? Well, we will Not let this travesty happen! In our infinite wisdom and upon our Lords instructions, we are simply going to Close Every Orphanage, which will prevent those sinners from giving these needy children an even More needed Home. Sure, I know, 20 Million Children will now have little or No Hope of Ever living in their own Home surrounded by a loving Family, but we Catholic, Mother Teresa's Missionaries must follow our narrow minded, tunnel vision'd conscience and protest, and rebel at the mere thought of a Sinner giving even One of our children a home. May the Saints preserve us All.' :/
Mother Teresa's Missionaries Of Charity Says No More Adoptions In India
Nuns of the Missionaries of Charity pray last month at the Mother House, the Missionaries' head office, in Kolkata, India. Dibyangshu Sarkar/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
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Nuns of the Missionaries of Charity pray last month at the Mother House, the Missionaries' head office, in Kolkata, India.
Dibyangshu Sarkar/AFP/Getty Images The secretary of India's central adoption agency, Veerendra Mishra, told The Indian Express newspaper that there were two points of dispute: "First, [Missionaries of Charity] will not allow adoption by single parents; second, they also have issues with couples, one or both of whom has had a divorce earlier."
A liberalization of adoption guidelines this summer has brought ideological differences between the conservative Catholic order and the Indian government to a head.
India has opened up adoption to prospective parents who are single, divorced or separated.
Under the name Nirmala Shishu Bhawan, the Missionaries' network of homes provides shelter, food, medical care and schooling to abandoned and destitute children, including those with special needs across India. The adoption services were ended Aug. 1, according to Sister Amala, the nun in charge at the Missionaries' home in North Delhi.
Speaking about the decision not to offer adoptions, Sister Amala told local media: "The new guidelines hurt our conscience. They are certainly not for religious people like us. ... What if the single parent who we give our baby [to] turns out to be gay or lesbian? What security or moral upbringing will these children get? Our rules only allow married couples to adopt."
A sister at the same home who asked not to be identified said the Catholic missionary society had been thinking "for some time" about shutting down its adoption services in order to "look after special needs children who had not been adopted." She added, "It was a well-thought out discussion."
The controversy comes as the Catholic Church wrestles with modernity and changing social mores. Pope Francis faced criticism over his recent meeting with Kim Davis, the Kentucky county clerk who has refused on religious grounds to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. While many saw her defiance as anti-gay bigotry, others called it the courage of a religious conservative.
As for adoption, it is rare in India, fraught with taboos and red tape. The Telegraph newspaper cites a 2011 study estimating that there are 20 million orphans, but less than 0.04 percent of abandoned children were adopted through official agencies.
Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi wants to greatly increase the numbers of children adopted in India. She told a conference on women and children Thursday that the Missionaries of Charity did not want to "come under a uniform secular agenda." However, she added, "We are trying to persuade them, they are good people."
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