Comments on: Transracial adoption debate continues in Pennsylvania

By: Brad

Brad — Sun, 28 May 2006 22:19:56 +0000

Adoption can be a good thing for many children. It’s about education, understanding, love, and not isolating your child in the wrong neighborhood for starters.

The otherday, I watched a show on PBS called “Daddy and Papa” about gay adoption. A couple of the fathers were white men who adopted black/biracial children. Although they seemed sincere, they also came off as being selfish because as one parent said: “I can only teach my son my culture. Kwanzaa! I don’t know anything about that!” Well, I don’t know many people who celebrate Kwanza but I can read a book. Another father lamented the fact that there weren’t many kids in his Castro neighborhood in San Francisco. So, his kids didn’t have friends in the neighborhood. Um, why not move to a gay-friendly neighborhood with kids?

The fathers just seemed lazy in not doing the simplest things to assist their kids like reading up on another culture or moving to a better neighborhood.

By: justin

justin — Fri, 26 May 2006 06:04:51 +0000

If Paul’s a polynesian from my side of the world (?) he has every right to say that and he doesn’t need to speak in the past tense.

By: lyonside

lyonside — Thu, 25 May 2006 22:27:20 +0000

Crap - and that was me…

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 25 May 2006 01:36:15 +0000

PKMQDBC - keep looking for those birds and dragons, kid. Adoption is WAY older than Christianity - adoption and fosterage is in every culture’s mythos, and is therefore part of the human (or even primate) condition.

The issue has nothing to do w/ Christianity - what, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists don’t adopt? Get outta town.

By: Paul Kekai Manansala, Quests of the Dragon and Bird Clan

Paul Kekai Manansala, Quests of the Dragon and Bird Clan — Wed, 24 May 2006 23:28:55 +0000

Adoption was used by missionaries for the purpose of spreading Christianity by raising non-Christian children as Christians, and cultural assimilation.