Catholic Adoption Agency & Gay Rights.
A Leeds based Catholic Adoption Agency has won a High Court case against certain 'sexual orientation regulations' (part of the Equality Bill) which would compel it not to draw a distinction between same-sex adoptors and more conventional relationships.
A variety of lobby groups (Stonewall, The Secular Society, Humanist Society etc) have denounced this ruling as immoral and bigotted. A same-sex couple interviewed on the BBC TV the other night felt deeply angered that they were being discriminated against.
There was no evidence, to the best of recollection, that this couple had been refused adoption by this agency. Indeed one is tempted to ask why would they apply to such an agency in the first place? It should also be pointed out that no-one has an absolute 'right to have a child'!
The moral outrage seems rather contrived to say the least.
It seems that the High Court took the view that the work done by the agency in managing 'difficult to place' children was such that to effectively close them down would be a wholly unwarranted consequence of enforcing Harriet Harman's brainchild.
It would be silly to assert that the church is being persecuted by the state. And yet it strikes me that the church as a whole and other Christian institutions are being "set up" by state sponsored legislation which will encourage vexatious litigation from hostile lobby groups and individuals with their own agendas. Pressure from them and an unsympathetic media will increasingly bear down on the work done by Christian charities.
The precedent our Liberal masters are seeking to create is that the State will in future police individual consciences. No you won't be thrown into prison, but you will be subject to public vilification and, in some circumstances, the loss of your livelihood if you defy the Liberal Establishment. They might permit you a conscience just so long as you don't actually do anything with it!
Persecution of the church by the state has simply taken a modern twist - it's now contracted out!
A Leeds based Catholic Adoption Agency has won a High Court case against certain 'sexual orientation regulations' (part of the Equality Bill) which would compel it not to draw a distinction between same-sex adoptors and more conventional relationships.
A variety of lobby groups (Stonewall, The Secular Society, Humanist Society etc) have denounced this ruling as immoral and bigotted. A same-sex couple interviewed on the BBC TV the other night felt deeply angered that they were being discriminated against.
There was no evidence, to the best of recollection, that this couple had been refused adoption by this agency. Indeed one is tempted to ask why would they apply to such an agency in the first place? It should also be pointed out that no-one has an absolute 'right to have a child'!
The moral outrage seems rather contrived to say the least.
It seems that the High Court took the view that the work done by the agency in managing 'difficult to place' children was such that to effectively close them down would be a wholly unwarranted consequence of enforcing Harriet Harman's brainchild.
It would be silly to assert that the church is being persecuted by the state. And yet it strikes me that the church as a whole and other Christian institutions are being "set up" by state sponsored legislation which will encourage vexatious litigation from hostile lobby groups and individuals with their own agendas. Pressure from them and an unsympathetic media will increasingly bear down on the work done by Christian charities.
The precedent our Liberal masters are seeking to create is that the State will in future police individual consciences. No you won't be thrown into prison, but you will be subject to public vilification and, in some circumstances, the loss of your livelihood if you defy the Liberal Establishment. They might permit you a conscience just so long as you don't actually do anything with it!
Persecution of the church by the state has simply taken a modern twist - it's now contracted out!
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