Because of anti-discrimination laws, the largest Catholic Adoption in England and Wales will adopt a new policy that won’t rule out same-sex couples as adoptive parents:
“The move will undoubtedly be seen as controversial in some quarters. In January 2007, Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor wrote to the-then Prime Minister Tony Blair suggesting that Catholic adoption agencies in England and Wales would be forced to close down if they were not allowed to opt out of new gay rights laws, which he said contradicted Catholic teaching. The cardinal said forcing people to act against their consciences would mean discrimination on the grounds of belief, adding that it would be an ‘unnecessary tragedy’ if Catholic agencies were forced to close. In the cardinal’s Westminster archdiocese, the Catholic Children’s Society has opted to mount a legal challenge to the regulations by amending its constitution. But A&BSP, which prepares between 40-50 potential adoptive parents a year, has instead decided to comply with them.”
However, that doesn’t mean they have to approve them. Said Terry Connor, chief executive of the society: “I suspect if a same-sex couple arrives at any of the agencies just to test out the system, they will not get very far.”
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