'Gay Rights Laws' Force Church to Withdraw from Adoption in Wales

New gay rights law are forcing the Church to pull out of adoption services in every diocese in Wales.The St David's Children's Society, which covers the three Welsh dioceses of Cardiff, Menevia and Wrexham, will cut ties with the bishops and become an independent charity so it can comply with the Sexual Orientation Regulations.

It is the third largest of the 13 Catholic adoption agencies in England and Wales and finds new families for about 35 children a year - about 14 per cent of all cases in Wales.Its loss will be a massive blow to the Church, which founded the society in 1947.But trustees argue that the Government has given them no choice but to sever links with the dioceses if the agency is to avoid closure.

They have just three months to comply with the law, which makes it illegal for adoption agencies to turn away same-sex couples as possible adoptive and foster parents.Gerry Cooney, the director of St David's, said: "The situation is one in which really we have to either fully comply with the regulations or to close. We are in the process of fully complying with the regulations. That will mean separation from the dioceses. We are aiming to be fully compliant in the near future.'

He added: "It is a very sensitive issue and a very difficult issue. The bishops have said that it is a situation not of their making and there have been no easy decisions taken at this time."

Ann Widdecombe, former Tory Minister and convert to Catholicism, said the new law made it "inevitable" that the agencies would find themselves in crisis.She said: "It is ludicrous. No one is benefiting from this law. Homosexual couples could already adopt, they just couldn't adopt through Fr O'Flaherty. The very difficult placements the Catholic Church was so good at are at risk of being lost and it will be those children who depend most upon this service who are going to suffer."

Ohhhh.... so you mean it's not really about queers' rights, it's about destroying the Catholic Church? Who'da thunk it?

I believe this happened in Boston,
catholic charities used to do adoption but the homo two went and said they want to adopt.

Of curse they knew the answer would be no so what did they do?

They sued as they usually do and won as MA would always let them

so catholic charities closed down

how sad that the homo’s are using kids now to futher their agenda and ruin adoptions

An alternative might be to offer Catholic only adoption services. That is, to give up on the concept of interfaith adoption and insist that Catholic children can only be adopted by Catholics.

Here’s the sad logic. When you try to reach out to people outside your group, the government tries to force you to offer services to everyone, abusing your hospitality. No different than if you offered a spare room to a refugee from a disaster, then the government demanded that you provide rooms for other refugees as well.

Oppression in the guise of “fairness”.

So the alternative is to become exclusive. To turn away deserving people who you would otherwise assist, and only assist relatives. And on top of that, demand that no one else be allowed to assist your relatives but you.

Strangely enough, in its efforts to unfairly “protect” protected classes, the same kind of intrusive government on one hand, willingly permits exclusion on the other hand. That is, nobody but black parents can adopt a black child, and nobody but Muslim parents can adopt a Muslim child.

What is needed for the Catholics to do might even be beyond the local Bishop or Archbishop. It may require a Papal decree that Wales is a “heathen land”, where Catholic children cannot be adopted by non-Catholics. That, in effect, Catholic children are the “property” of the Church, so cannot become wards of the state except after criminal conviction, and then only for the duration of their sentence.

In doing so, the church sets itself as higher than the state, and may even be forced to require Catholic school for all Catholic children in Wales.

Christians should no longer support charities if the government is going to force them to violate their Christian principles-no matter how noble the cause. If enough Christian charities were to simply say, “OK, we won’t do that any longer; here you take over and we’ll take our money elsewhere.”, you’d probably would find a lot of governments backing down. These liberals want our money and efforts but on their terms. That is not what Christianity is all about.

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