NORWAY'S OMBUDSMAN FOR CHILDREN TELLS GOVT TO NIX GAY ADOPTION: From 365Gay.com

Plans by Norway's government to allow same-sex couples to adopt have prompted a strong warning from the official in charge of protecting the rights of children.

The government has announced it intends to have the new adoption law in place this fall. Currently Norway allows gay and lesbian couples to register as domestic partners with many of the rights of marriage. It permits one partner to become the coparent of another partner's natural children, but does not permit them to adopt.

"Adoption is not a human right," Reidar Hjermann has told Norway Television.
"Homosexuals are fighting a rather legitimate battle for liberation, but it is important that children do not become weapons in that battle," said Hjermann.
"The time is not right for adoption, maybe in 10 or 20 years, or 100 years, but not now."

Only when same-sex couples are accepted in society to the same level and degree as heterosexual couples should adoption be allowed Hjermann said.
"Some children adopted from abroad have a difficult time to begin with, and they should not be subjected to additional difficulties, but I hope that we one day will reach the point where this is accepted," Hjermann said.

The ombudsman's comments have angered the country's gay community.
"This is not at all about using children as a crowbar, said Jon Reidar Oyan, leader of Landsforeningen for Lesbisk og homofil frigjoring, the national organization for lesbian and gay equality in Norway.

"It is about the fact that we want the same right to be evaluated as adoptive parents in the same way as others, regardless of sexual orientation."

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