Perverts’ charter claims first victim as Catholic adoption agency closes
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Further proof that Britain is descending into an immoral mess came this week when Catholic Care, a leading British Catholic adoption agency announced that it will cease operations in light of the recently imposed repressive laws that they must allow children to be adopted by homosexual partners. Catholic Care is the first victim of the religious social agencies to announce that it can no longer operate under the Sexual Orientation Regulations (SORs) that proponents claimed would put an end to “discrimination” in the UK.
The agency which has proudly operated for a century, announced that a vote of its trustees decided to end its services that had placed about 20 children a year into new families.
The decision from Catholic Care came a week after the Catholic bishop of Lancaster, Patrick O’Donoghue wrote a letter to Catholic Caring Services, an adoption charity in his diocese, saying that the needs of the child must come before the desire for parenthood.
He wrote: “I favour rejection, thus withdrawal from adoption and fostering from December 2008 if all else fails.””We know that what is best for children is to live with married couples. Dilution of that harms children… Children who stay with married parents do by far the best, whilst those with same-sex couples often fare badly, and certainly never as well as a child with a married couple.”
Homosexual lobbying
In April, when the Labour government passed the SORs, Catholics, Protestants, Jews, Muslims and other religious and ethnic groups were united in condemning the move, calling it a means of imposing state-sanctioned secularist doctrine on religious groups orchestrated by the militant homosexual lobby.
Cormac Cardinal Murphy O’Connor, the head of the Catholic Church in England and Wales warned that the Church would be forced to end its involvement in adopting children rather than comply with what he saw as a law that suppressed religious freedom. A similar decision was taken earlier by Boston Catholic Charities that ended its adoption services in March 2006 when the state of Massachusetts tried to force them to adopt children to homosexual partners.
In the end, Tony Blair, who was said to have been waffling on the issue, decreed that the Church, or any other group, would not be granted any exemptions but that an “adjustment period” would be granted for such bodies to come to terms with the new order.
Repressive measures
Homosexual partners have been eligible to adopt children in Britain since 2002 and most non-religious agencies allow it. But the SORs took the issue to the next phase in forcing religious agencies to allow it against their stated religious principles. Catholic Care served both Catholic and non-Catholic couples.
In comments to the BBC in the spring, Murphy O’Connor said the SORs were part of a movement to force Christians out of public life in Britain. “Here the Catholic Church and its adoption services are wishing to act according to its principles and conscience and the government is saying: ‘No, we won’t allow you to … you have no space, you have no place in the public life of this country.'”
The SORs were passed in March when MPs of all parties voted 310 votes to 100 to enact the legislation which was effectively forced through without proper discussion. MPs were restricted to a total of just 90 minutes debate in a committee hearing the previous week and Commons rules barred MPs on March 19 from debating the regulation or trying to change the wording.
Those voting for this anti-democratic piece of legislation which denies the right of religious bodies to opt out of handing children over to same sex couples included Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and millionaire toff David Cameron showing that the Conservative commitment to the traditional family is nothing more than a sham.
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