Many if not most charities are exclusive. That is their nature. The Catholic church set up their adoption agency way before the secular government decided that being gay was now ok enough to adopt children. They have been providing couples of similar worldview with children for decades. The Catholic Church in a free society should be able to continue its work without harrassment and with its charitable status in tact because it operates as a charity in the same way other charities operate, serving a particular section of the community as all charities do.



Councils have mile long waiting lists of children waiting to be adopted and they have no problems matching children with gay couples. Stonewall aren't happy with that though. They are demanding that everyone conforms to their way of thinking. The irony. They are wanting for others what they don't want for themselves. Their hypocrisy is astounding.

Its illegal to discriminate against certain sections of society.



The fact that a person or organisation discriminated against that sector previous to the law being formed is irrelvant, I can't continue treating black people as second class citizens just because I was raised through a couple of decades when they were until the race relations act was introduced circa 1976.



I think that you understand all of this though and the Catholic Church should surely understand this for their adoption charity, they and you are intelligent people who have allowed your view to be clouded by a faith based dogma which is making you support illegal working practices that you would not get away with if, for instance, you ran a grocers shop - or even a guest house (LOL).

Is there something wrong with being gay?

Nothing wrong with being gay.



Should gay people be allowed to adopt children is a totally different question.

I have to ask why...

Why would a persons sexuality have anything to do with raising a child

Because a child is the result of union between a man and a woman? Just a thought.

I only got a C in GCSE biology, but that sounds about right. I may have to double check with my girlfriend, who is at medical school.



No problems with gays and civil partnerships.



Reference allowing them to adopt. If nothing else, just imagine the ribbing the kid is going to get at school.

I see what you've done there, but I don't think you've understood.



You're right that a child is the result of union between a man and a woman, but we're talking about adoption here. Adoption is the result of union between a man and a woman? Err...not quite.



"Having", for want of a better term, and "raising" a child are two different things. Who are you, and who are the "catholic" adoption agency, to decide that a child cannot be [uraised[/u by certain people because, largely, of what they do with their genitals?

No, no, I didn't ask you how you make a child, I asked you why a persons sexual preference has anything to do with raising a child.

I love it when people use the 'who are you to ' line. It usually means they have nothing substantive to say and just want to appear to have taken the moral high ground.