Monday, April 28, 2008
GETTING OUT OF THE ADOPTION BUSINESS
The Bishop of Nottingham Malcolm McMahon says his diocese will cut its ties with an adoption agency because it cannot accept the government’s new laws on homosexual rights.
Bishop Malcolm McMahon said he and the trustees of the Catholic Children’s Society adoption agency felt that they had been forced into the decision by the Sexual Orientation Regulations which bans discrimination against gays in the provision of goods and services.
The law would compel the diocese in certain circumstances to place children in the care of same-sex couples.
“We have been coerced into this, I am not happy about it at all,” Bishop McMahon said. “The regulations have coerced the children’s society into going against the Church’s teaching, and we don’t wish to do that.”
A Vatican directive issued in 2003 said it was morally wrong to place children in the care of same-sex couples.
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