There are changes afoot that will allow unmarried Scottish couple to hear the pitter patter of little feet. Scotland's Parliament approved a bill that will allow unmarried couples - including those of the queer variety - to adopt children.

The law had previously allowed only one person to be a legal parent. Now guppies can have two parents!

How luxurious, right? Not according to some...

Catholic Cardinal Keith O'Brien denounced the vote, saying:

Of course it is better for a child to be in a loving home... But a loving home means a mum and dad... Basically, it is just not the natural way in which children have ever been brought up. It certainly is an immoral decision. We are descending into a spiral of immorality.

That's the first thing you learn as a child: without one mommy and one daddy, not only will children become monstrous perversions of humanity, but a huge fissure will open in the ground, releasing mythical demon spawn to wreak incomprehensible havoc across all the land. Of course, not in places where entire villages help raise a child or a man has multiple wives. They're immune. Why? Because their society hasn't been constructed around narrow-minded religious prescription, thus they're already eternally damned. Duh.

While O'Brien's Biblically-endorsed objections come as no surprise, leftist MP Roseanna Cunningham's opposition raised a few eyebrows. Known for her liberal politics, Cunningham insisted:

I may sound old-fashioned and perhaps, I am old-fashioned, but so is the majority of Scotland ...I have concerns about pushing so far ahead of public opinion. ...The one truth we know about nature is that in order to have a child you need two people of opposite sex

That's so true - in the most basic sense of the word.

Despite these (and other) arguments, 101 MPs voted to approve the bill, two voted against it and 6 abstained. Pretty good numbers for an old-fashioned country, huh?

(On another note: the pictured baby looks pretty fucking cool. He's sort of winking and pointing. Play on baby player.)