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Shas says will block plan to allow gay couples adopt children
By Yuval Yoaz, Haaretz Correspondent
Tags: adoption, Shas, sam-sex, gay

The Shas Party plans to prevent Welfare Minister Isaac Herzog from implementing a planned revolution that would allow same-sex couples to adopt children.

Currently, same-sex couples cannot adopt unrelated children; each member of the couple can only adopt the biological children of the other. Herzog's plan, first published in Haaretz Sunday, would give them the same adoption privileges as heterosexual couples.

"This is a crazy idea," Shas Chairman Eli Yishai told Haaretz. "It is part of a series of ideas by deluded parties whose sole goal is to blur the Jewish core of the Jewish people. This initiative contradicts the coalition agreements, and therefore, it will not be realized."
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Yishai explained that the coalition agreements require any change in the religious status quo to be made only if all coalition parties consent.

"Permission for same-sex couples to adopt redefines what a family is among the Jewish people," he argued. "This is a definition that contradicts Judaism and has not existed to date. It is a mortal blow to the status quo."

Even in the United States and Europe, he noted, there is opposition to same-sex marriage and same-sex adoption, and there is certainly no reason why the Jewish state should adopt such a radical policy.

"I don't understand this anti-Jewish running amok that seeks to uproot the goal of many years - preserving the shape of the Jewish family," he said.

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      1.   opinions are fine 05:00  |  justice for all 17/12/07
      2.   I guess it would be better for Lior Katsav to adopt them 05:10  |  Margie 17/12/07
      3.   same sex adoption 07:26  |  Salomon L Vaz Dias 17/12/07
      4.   why not sodomize children too? 08:24  |  eliezer 17/12/07
      5.   sodomize children too? 08:28  |  eliezer 17/12/07
      6.   #1 and #3 08:33  |  eliezer 17/12/07
      7.   better to let orphans rot according to `religious` party shas 09:08  |  don 17/12/07
      8.   To Eliezar from the mom of a "pervert" 09:40  |  Racheli 17/12/07
      9.   Reply to Eliezer is every hetrosexual male a rapist 09:42  |  SJ 17/12/07
      10.   eliezer come and meet my family 09:50  |  SJ 17/12/07
      11.   #3 - the issue is not the parents but the children! 10:59  |  redmike 17/12/07
      12.   Having a child is not a "right" 11:03  |  myself 17/12/07
      13.   I agree with Sha, he is right! 05:30  |  Cristo 18/12/07
      14.   MARRIAGE defined as a union of a Man and 05:39  |  Cristo 18/12/07
      15.   Homosexual Unions and behavior 05:45  |  Cristo 18/12/07
      16.   What justice? #1 18:37  |  Shechinah 18/12/07
      17.   apparently no rights for gays then in Isreal 02:43  |  Puddy Katz 19/12/07
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