Children and heirs


Today we're reminded, in the words of St. Paul, that we are children of God, and therefore his heirs (Galatians 4:4-7). But as amazing and important as this is, we also need to be reminded that we are not God's natural children, but his children by adoption.
     Our faith has always taught us that Jesus Christ is God's only "natural" child -- in the words of the aged and profound KJV, "his only-begotten Son."
"He destined us for adoption as his children through Jesus Christ, according to the good pleasure of his will", as we read in Ephesians (1:5). 


Well anyway, all this leads me to wonder how anyone can deny to same-sex couples the possibility to father or mother children in this same way. If God adopts us as his children, how can some of us then turn around and say that it's illegitimate for God's own gay children to do?