Catholic Adoption Agencies Persecuted in UK

The Telegraph reports that a High Court judge ruled last Thursday that Catholic Care, the “last remaining Roman Catholic adoption agency to resist Labour’s equality laws” is not allowed to “restrict its services to heterosexuals only.”  This sad ruling will likely force Catholic Care–which started as an orphanage in 1863–to close its adoption service.

In an article on www.catholic.org, Deacon Keith Fournier explains that

Catholic Care filed an Appeal to the High Court seeking to amend its charter to limit its services to heterosexual married couples.  They tried to argue under Article 14 of the European Convention on Human Rights that there were ‘particularly convincing and weighty reasons’ for such “discrimination,” which is the standard.

The fact that Catholic Care was forced to argue in court that there were “convincing and weighty reasons” for denying adoptions to homosexual couples, and the very fact that this is legally considered “discrimination” in the UK essentially means that the battle was already lost before they even went to court.

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