Judge declares Christians unfit to be parents

United Kingdom

A Christian couple have been left "extremely distressed" after the High Court ruled a local council was entitled to exclude them from becoming child foster carers because of their faith-based opposition to homosexuality.

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http://www.google.com/hostednews/uk...qzyvyCITvxmPYY0EQ?docId=N0211481298904191849A

 

on the one hand i feel kinda sorry for them but, on the other, i think the council has made the right decision because what if they were to foster a budding homosexual... that child could be damaged by their strong views...

 

I don't feel sorry for them.

 

sometimes it shocks me how much more advanced the uk is than the us . . .

 

If it is true, they probably don't either. Most often these beliefs are accepted but not really examined. I think in this case there might be some degree of "macho" image involved.

 

yes, i agree... it's the "macho" image that has had to be championed, probably because of the cultural effect that enslaving had maybe... then passed down... here, in the UK, it was much harder for a gay black person to come out than a gay white person... was/is it the same in USA?

just a side-thought, has anyone heard about the "corrective rapes" going on in South Africa? Lesbians are being raped by men inorder to "correct" their behaviour...

 

fantastic news. it's good to know that the world is starting to recognize the inherent hatred and ignorance displayed by religion

 

but then again Europe still has clown ass kings and queens. Not really progressive.

 

I believe that religion should play a bigger role when it comes to adoption, as should views on homosexuality. This child could either be gay or become friends with someone who has two fathers/mothers and it could conflict with what the child knows from their Christian parents...

Being the liberal that I am, I'm rather anti-religion based on all of the conflicts within the church vs. society. Times are rapidly changing and faiths need to catch up to speed with the preferences of society if churches want to remain...

 

hadn't heard about the "corrective rapes".
South Africa has been having rape problems for
quite awhile. The government says the high rate
of rape is the victims fault for mentioning it and
making their country look bad. Then there is the
nutjobs who think it will cure AIDS to rape virgins.
Something in the water there or what?
way strange!
and on the state v. religion topic, a court here a few years ago said Christian fundies didn't have to obey the law about equal opportunity housing. They didn't have to rent to somebody they felt was living in sin...sigh
religion can make people so damn nutty!

 

Greatest news story I've read all month...

 

I'm with you. I can't feel sorry for them.

 

Ditto. Imagine if they were to adopt a 3 year old which grew up and decided he was gay at 15. He would probably be thrown out on the street by them, rejected by the only parents he has known,

 

i think they made the right decision !

 

Meanwhile on "19 kids and Counting", The Duggars take the family to the Creation Museum...

 

The state basically telling people what to think. I don't like it one bit.

 

Your first statement does not relate to your second.
Your first statement made sense the second did not.