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theHandpuppet

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Wed Nov 13, 2013, 09:19 AM Nov 2013

Another ignoramus speaks out on gay adoption, this one from N. Ireland

This from Health Minister Mr. Poots, himself an example of evolution gone awry.

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/northern-ireland/gay-adoption-it-is-natural-order-for-a-man-and-a-woman-to-have-a-child-says-northern-ireland-health-minister-edwin-poots-29749269.html

The Belfast Telegraph
Gay adoption: It is 'natural order' for a man and a woman to have a child, says Northern Ireland Health Minister Edwin Poots
VICTORIA O'HARA – 13 November 2013

Northern Ireland Health Minister Edwin Poots has denied he regards homosexuality as "an illness" but defended his opposition to gay adoption.

Speaking during Assembly question time at Stormont, Mr Poots said "the natural order" was for a man and a woman to have a child.

He was responding to a question from Alliance's Trevor Lunn, who asked him if he thought homosexuality was a treatable illness or an "abomination".

He said he did not think he had made the remarks that it was an illness, and went on to defend himself against allegations his views were "backward". "The natural order, whether one believes in God or whether one believes in evolution, the natural order is for a man and a woman to have a child and therefore that has made my views on adoption very, very clear and on raising children very, very clear," the Lagan Valley MLA said....

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Another ignoramus speaks out on gay adoption, this one from N. Ireland (Original Post) theHandpuppet Nov 2013 OP
This explains a lot. theHandpuppet Nov 2013 #1
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