The Education Secretary said today that there was no case for Catholic adoption agencies to be exempted from new laws banning discrimination on grounds of sexuality.
In an intervention suggesting that Tony Blair has been rebuffed by his own Cabinet colleagues on the issue, Alan Johnson said he was confident no children would suffer if the Roman Catholic Church followed up on a threat to close its 12 adoption agencies around the country.
His comments, on BBC Radio 4, came after The Times reported that the Catholic agencies would be given up to a year to prepare for the introduction of the new laws under a compromise proposed by the gay rights group Stonewall.
I really hope the bishops follow through and close the agencies. It's the same thing I said when Connecticut refused to allow Catholic hospitals not to dispense abortifacients. If they want our services, they must permit our morality. They don't have to follow it, but they have to allow us to. I'm sick of governments (and populaces) demanding our charities while spitting in our face.
Of course, now the uterofascists will bitch about how we're driving the abortion rate up. Not that they think that's a bad thing, but because clearly, we're hypocrites. Because we refuse to be hypocrites. Go figure.
(Side note: at the end of the article, it mentions that the Church of England is rallyng with the Catholics on this. Good for them!)
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