UK: Christian couple told: 'You can't foster if you think it's wrong to be gay'

The Daily Mail (U.K.) ^ | February 27, 2008 | DAVID WILKES

[Stoat]

This is not the first time this sort of thing has happened.  Please see this FR thread from last year involving a different family.

(U.K.)Christian couple forced to quit fostering after refusing to tell kids its 'good to be gay'

[2banana]

I would look at them and say - nothing wrong with a kid being happy!

[2banana]

"They were asking: "What would you do if a 10 year-old child came home and said they had been picked on because they were homosexual?"

I would teach my kid how to fight...(is that a wrong answer in PC England?)

[Stoat]

Ping

[Antoninus]

"But I cannot understand why sexuality is an issue when we are talking about boys and girls under the age of ten."

With all due respect, it's because you underestimate how truly evil these people are. The New Butt Order trumps everything else--including the ability of a good, Christian family to care for an orphan.

The time is coming when Christians are going to have to simply refuse to act in accord with the unjust laws of the secular state.

[Resolute Conservative]

Sorry, 10 year olds do not understand that yet to choose. Yes I said choose, it is a choice.

My 10 year old would be heading for the Christian counselor and less public indoctrination.

[Alouette]

Where is that article about the UK gay men who molested dozens of foster children paced in their care, after being proclaimed as “poster boys” for gay adoptions?

[ClearCase_guy]

“Diversity is really important — that’s why we’re kicking your sort of person out of our club.”

[Stoat]

FYI

[PeterFinn]

So will the Brits apply this rule to muslim foster families or do they only discriminate against Christians?

[Bommer]

"They were asking: "What would you do if a 10 year-old child came home and said they had been picked on because they were homosexual?"

First of all sexuallity is learned behavior. Your not born gay, you learn to become gay, just like no one is born a pediophile. So I ask him who is teaching him to be gay, find the sumbitch and open fire. Next stupid question?

[Amendment10]

Romans 1:25-27 tells us that same-sex sexual relationships are a consequence of idolatry. In other words, such relationships are a consequence of disobeying the 1ST COMMANDMENT, a major aspect of the GREATEST COMMANDMENT, to love the jealous God with all your being.

Homosexuals need to keep in mind, however, that the good news of the gospel is not about how God despises same-sex sexual relationships. In fact, 1 Corinthians 6:9-11 indicates that certain members of that church had been slaves to such relationships but had been cleansed in Jesus' name. So these former homosexuals had evidently repented and accepted God's grace to straighten their lives out.

John 3:16
Revelation 3:20

[Fox_Mulder77]

The Brits are sick. And that’s why the Muslims are going to take that country over.

[UCFRoadWarrior]

HomoFascism rears its ugly head again...

[SecAmndmt]

We need to look in the mirror here in the US too.

We claim to be 70%+ Christian yet we continue to elect politicians who do not understand the proper role and function of government, church, family and individual governance. We wring our hands about homosexual indoctrination in the government school system (pagan academies) when our children should not even be enrolled in these anti-American institutions. If Christians pulled their children out of the local communist indoctrination centers we would see a quick revival of traditional family life here in America.

While some of the blame for the current liberal humanistic social unpleasantness can be laid at the feet of an ACLU-supporting and infiltrated judiciary, our modern Christian churches have stood on the sidelines of the culture war and have ignored or even supported the war on true constitutional federalism. Where was the church when Judge Roy Moore was making his brave stand in Alabama?

[SecAmndmt]

I identify with the sentiment, but if we are sending our children into an environment where we know they will be exposed to all sorts of anti-Christian abominations, under the direction of teacher(s) or leader(s) whose moral views are uncertain or questionable, who is ultimately responsible?

[gidget7]

Rather than voicing ONLY their religious reasons for refusing, these fine people should tell their govt., as we all should be, that they surely would not suggest that foster parents should speak favorable about smoking! Why then would they tell them homosexuality is good, when it is 100x more dangerous? They should speak of the dangers involved in living a gay lifestyle, and state firmly that they as foster parents, cannot endorse it to any child in their care. To do so would be assisting in subjecting said children to a lifetime of mental and severe physical health problems, and their conscience will not allow them, as foster parents, to disregard the inevitable outcome of those types of actions, for the children involved. AND the govt. should not either, given the state of their (or our) health care system.

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

If Christians pulled their children out of the local communist indoctrination centers we would see a quick revival of traditional family life here in America.

We'd see a second revolution. But that's a big IF, isn't it?

[cva66snipe]

The foster parent program in the good old USA is getting sicker by the minute as well. The criteria for becoming foster parents even for blood realitives looks like it was written by Hillary Rodham Clinton and Dr Ben Spock. I went through it a few months back and it was a real eye opener. The courts as well are perp friendly.

[scripter]

We adopted 2 boys from the local county in which we reside. The process took a very long time due to many different obstacles but we eventually adopted the boys.

In the mean time we were foster parents going through the fos-adopt problem. At the end of the process we considered adopting a girl but then came a flyer in the mail... To continue the process we would have to take a class on encouraging homosexual behavior in children who were homosexual. We would not be able to tell the children the truth.

So we never adopted again.

The fact of the matter is nobody is born with their same-sex attraction. Science supports this fact yet generation after generation continue to believe a lie and today's leaders continue to push a really bad social experiment.