Posted on 06/08/2008 4:00:28 AM PDT by markomalley
London, Jun 7, 2008 / 09:32 pm (CNA).- A Catholic adoption agency in Britain has ended its service of placing children in new homes because a new anti-discrimination law forbids the agency from turning away homosexual couples. A Minister of Parliament has said the new law “smacks of a secular attack on the Catholic Church.”
The Equality Act, which will come into effect on January 1, outlaws discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation in the provision of goods and services. Then-Prime Minister Tony Blair, who has since converted to Catholicism, wanted Catholic adoption agencies to be exempted from the rules.
Directors of the Catholic Children’s Rescue Society (CCRS), which has been in operation since 1886, say the new legislation forces them to stop recruiting, assessing, or approving couples who want to adopt children, according to the Telegraph. While other British adoption agencies have cut their ties to the Catholic Church to continue their service, the CCRS cannot do so because it is closely linked with the Diocese of Salford.
“The decision has been taken with regret by the trustees who have been fully informed all the way along,” said CCRS director Kathy Batt. "We did not want to separate from the diocese as other agencies have, though that is no criticism of them."
The CCRS will become the first adoption agency to stop offering its services. It will merge with local Catholic welfare groups to provide care homes for children, homeless shelters, and support for adoptive parents.
Jim Dobbin, a Catholic Labor Party MP in Manchester, lamented the action.
"It is a tragedy,” Dobbin said, according to the Telegraph. “There is a shortage of people willing to adopt generally in the country and there is something very wrong when some of the better and more efficient agencies feel they have to close because they can't conform to what the Government is demanding.”
"I don't think there was any need for this legislation at all. It was forced through and was all done to avoid discrimination but all it has done is to introduce discrimination against agencies that operate according to the principles of a religious faith.
"The Government will rue the day when it pursued this line of action. It smacks of a secular attack on the Catholic Church."
ping for your lists
“It smacks of a secular attack on the Catholic Church.””
Nope it smacks of secular attack on Christianity.
The pillars of civilization are coming down, one by one...
At some point the tipping point will be reached and civilization will be no more.
Oh, those Brits, so unfailingly polite and circumspect. God love 'em.
It thought the actions of homosexuals were between consenting adults in private.
When does the child (not an adult) get to “consent” to be brought into this relationship?
What a homophobe you are! Don't you understand that when Heather sees that the "love" that her two "mommies" have for her is as pure as is the "love" that they have for each other she'll grow up to be a happy,well adjusted young woman?
"Consent"...indeed!
(End sarcasm)
“At some point the tipping point will be reached and civilization will be no more.”
I think you’re a bit off in your view. Western civilization may ultimately cease, but civilization in the world will go on. I seriously doubt that the mohammedans will tolerate this baloney.
Again and again, the homo-activists are constantly asking us: “what harm to anyone’s marriage is done if we get married? If you’re not gay, don’t marry someone of the same sex.” All the while, they are willfully blind to the mounting evidence of what redefining an established, natural relationship does to society. When government changes the definition of marriage for them, it changes it for everyone in society as well, including those of religious convictions that reject this aberant lifestyle in both concept and in practice.
Homosexuality is a tool for socialists to persecute those with Christian Beliefs.
Very good point. I have to wonder why the Republican Leadership is so incompetent in expressing the view you stated. They sure aren’t helping much to stop the damage.
The Republican Leadership has been diluted by “libertarians” and RINO’s over past several decades; true conservatives are a scare species. If a courageous conservative rises up in the party, he is smacked down by party bosses as too devisive.
The Republican Leadership has been diluted by “libertarians” and RINO’s over past several decades; true conservatives are a scare species. If a courageous conservative rises up in the party, he is smacked down by party bosses as too devisive.
Two people the same sex are not parents! They are units, at best guardians. I am not religious but agree with the Catholics on this one. I will never accept same sex coupling as marriage. I teach my children it is not normal behavior but that it does happen.
btt
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