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13/11/2013
Speaking during Assembly question time this week, the Minister – who has previously spoken about his opposition to gay adoption – defended himself against allegations that his views are "backward".
Recently, the Supreme Court refused to allow the Minister to appeal a High Court decision to allow gay and unmarried couples to adopt.
He admitted there had been a number of challenges over his stance, adding: "When it comes to adoption, I've just come from an MLU, a Midwifery Lead Unit in Lagan Valley today and all of the people that were giving birth in that unit were women and all of those women would not have been impregnated by another woman.
"The natural order - whether one believes in God or whether one believes in evolution - is for a man and a woman to have a child and therefore that has made my views on adoption very clear and on raising children very clear, that it should be a man and a woman that raises a child.
"Now people can criticise me for that and they can challenge me for it and they can say it's backward.
"The truth is that still today in this modern era it is only a man and a woman that can produce a child and therefore I think its in the best order for a man and a woman to raise a child."
(JP/CD)
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Poots Defends Gay Adoption Stance
Northern Ireland Health Minister Edwin Poots has defended his stance against gay adoption.Speaking during Assembly question time this week, the Minister – who has previously spoken about his opposition to gay adoption – defended himself against allegations that his views are "backward".
Recently, the Supreme Court refused to allow the Minister to appeal a High Court decision to allow gay and unmarried couples to adopt.
He admitted there had been a number of challenges over his stance, adding: "When it comes to adoption, I've just come from an MLU, a Midwifery Lead Unit in Lagan Valley today and all of the people that were giving birth in that unit were women and all of those women would not have been impregnated by another woman.
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"The natural order - whether one believes in God or whether one believes in evolution - is for a man and a woman to have a child and therefore that has made my views on adoption very clear and on raising children very clear, that it should be a man and a woman that raises a child.
"Now people can criticise me for that and they can challenge me for it and they can say it's backward.
"The truth is that still today in this modern era it is only a man and a woman that can produce a child and therefore I think its in the best order for a man and a woman to raise a child."
(JP/CD)
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