Another UK Catholic Adoption Agency Opts for Secularisation
By Hilary White
WREXHAM, Wales, September 23, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The St. David’s Children’s Society, the Catholic Church’s adoption agency in three Welsh dioceses of Cardiff, Menevia and Wrexham, has voted to cut its ties with the Catholic Church in the face of the new law that requires them to adopt children to homosexual partners. The Society said it would cut its ties with the Catholic Church in order to comply with the Labour government’s Sexual Orientation Regulations (SORs), part of the Equality Act 2006, that ban "discrimination" against homosexuals in the provision of goods and services.
There is growing anger among Catholics over the readiness of the adoption agencies to abandon their religious ethos. Neil Addison, a Liverpool-based Catholic barrister and author of a text book on religious discrimination and hatred law, said, "Charity trustees seem to assume that they can stop being a Catholic charity and then simply carry on." But he said the charities were "established by Catholics and given Catholic money on the basis that it would be used in accordance with Catholic beliefs. To use its funds for un-Catholic purposes seems unethical and possibly illegal."
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