Vatican paper objects to court ruling stating homosexual parenting harmless for children
ROME , January 14, 2013 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) – Children are being used as bargaining chips in a global struggle between two radically opposed theories of human nature, a leading Catholic bioethicist said this weekend in the Vatican’s newspaper L’Osservatore Romano . Adriano Pessina, director of bioethics at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart , wrote in response to a court ruling on Friday that concerns over harms to children raised in homosexual partnerships are based on “mere prejudice”. “Not only for biological reasons,” Pessina wrote, “the monogamous family is the ideal place where you must learn the meaning of human relationships.” The social crisis building over the broad acceptance of homosexuality is related to the fact that “people with a homosexual orientation want to build a pair bond more and more similar to the family, claiming a right to adopt children.” But there is no such right, “even for heterosexual couples,” he said. “Children are not objects or in