...exclude such as gay couples? I thought secularists wanted a separation of Church and state.
But this is an example of the state interfering with the Church(es) & religious adoption agencies.
I do not know how the New Labour politicians got away with it.
What about next time around? - The politicians telling the Church(es) what they can teach. So much for religious freedom. So much for independent views!
If the state wants to tell the church how to behave then what if the church starts telling the state how to behave? Why not? What goes around comes around.
And so called traditionalists/orthodox thinkers in the Tory party have remained painfully & utterly quiet about this matter.
I did not know that this only applied to state-funded adoption agencies - It has not been reported as such in the media. Even if it is I did not know the state had a monopoly on ethical issues/or the right to discriminate against religious views and many religious people pay taxes too.
Why would a gay couple go to a catholic adoption agency anyway?
I repeat my assertion that religious people pay taxes to an so could expect some money to be channelled towards religious adoption agencies regardless of their discrimination against gay couples adopting children.
I repeat my assertion that religious people pay taxes to and so could expect some money to be channelled towards religious adoption agencies regardless of their discrimination against gay couples adopting children.
But this is an example of the state interfering with the Church(es) & religious adoption agencies.
I do not know how the New Labour politicians got away with it.
What about next time around? - The politicians telling the Church(es) what they can teach. So much for religious freedom. So much for independent views!
If the state wants to tell the church how to behave then what if the church starts telling the state how to behave? Why not? What goes around comes around.
And so called traditionalists/orthodox thinkers in the Tory party have remained painfully & utterly quiet about this matter.
I did not know that this only applied to state-funded adoption agencies - It has not been reported as such in the media. Even if it is I did not know the state had a monopoly on ethical issues/or the right to discriminate against religious views and many religious people pay taxes too.
Why would a gay couple go to a catholic adoption agency anyway?
I repeat my assertion that religious people pay taxes to an so could expect some money to be channelled towards religious adoption agencies regardless of their discrimination against gay couples adopting children.
I repeat my assertion that religious people pay taxes to and so could expect some money to be channelled towards religious adoption agencies regardless of their discrimination against gay couples adopting children.