CathNews report: NSW's Same Sex Adoption legislation is "bad social engineering" and would "eliminate mothers and fathers", said Sydney's Cardinal George Pell.
He called on members of the Legislative Council to defeat the proposed legislation when it comes to vote, reports The Catholic Weekly.
"Same-sex parenting orders are already available and the proposed legislation has little to do with extending even mistaken notions of human rights," he said.
"Beyond inner Sydney it is not a popular proposal. It should be defeated in the Legislative Council."
Same-sex relationships were already appropriately recognised and provided for by NSW and Commonwealth law, he said, and they allowed same-sex partners to fully exercise all parenting responsibilities, without severing the child's legal relationship with his or her biological parents.
"My opposition to the bill is not an attack on homosexual persons or on the ability of a homosexual person to love and care for a child. That's not in question. The laws that enable same-sex parenting acknowledge that.
"But the right of every child to know and, where possible, be raised by his or her natural parents is not only recognised by major religious traditions but is affirmed by the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.
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