Posted on 11/12/2017 7:36:23 AM PST by EdnaMode
A Christian couple in the Canadian province of Alberta have been told by local Catholic Social Services and the provincial government that they are unfit to adopt children because they accept Biblical teaching regarding the immorality of homosexual acts, according to their attorneys at the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms.
The married couple, whose initials are given as “C.D. and N.D,” have filed a civil suit against the province alleging religious discrimination, and calling the decision to reject their candidacy for adoption “unreasonable and void by virtue of arbitrariness, bias, bad faith, as well as breaches of procedural fairness and natural justice.”
They ask that a declaration be made that “the decision to deny adoption violates sections 2(a) and 15 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, the Alberta Bill of Rights and the Alberta Human Rights Act,” and that they be permitted to become adoptive parents, according to the Justice Centre.
The Justice Centre reports that the couple submitted an application to adopt a child with the province’s Child and Family Services in October of last year. The province assigned their case to Catholic Social Services in Edmonton, which reviewed the couple psychologically, financially, and economically, and recommended that they be approved for adoption.
However, in March of this year, Catholic Social Services informed the couple that the province’s Child and Family Services had additional questions regarding their beliefs about homosexuality, in light of the fact that they are Evangelical Christians. The couple “reiterated their commitment to treating any child in their care with unconditional love, respect, and compassion regardless of what the child chose to do, and regardless of the child’s sexual orientation or behavior,” in the words of the Justice Centre.
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“Liberals now claim Christian parents are dangerous. This is an existential threat we can’t ignore”
Yet the orthodox Islamic belief in polygamy, lying to advance Islam, oppressing and beating women, and global jihad to advance a new Caliphate with world domination by Islam the goal - is OK.
Classic example of rendering unto Caesar what belongs to God.
This apostate agency, which caved, should lose their Catholic auspices -— at least.
It’s getting harder and harder
to know who to hate.
There were many more previous existential threast that we DID ignore, which made this current threat viable.
That’s horrible. I can’t believe that is even legal.
Would it be too much if all a parent said was sex belongs only in marriage?
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