A premature case of grief and joy

Edward McLaughlin

But even if such a loophole were to be recognised, this would not prevent gay couples from adopting children.

It might however, serve to show that some things are resistant to their insidious gnawing at that which is not to their liking.

Ronnie

It's absurd.

Faith-based organisation are forced to permit things that are against their faith.

The Jewish Chronicle may just as well be forced to make a member of Hamas its editor.

Labour should be forced to allow Conservatives to stand in leadership contests.

Harman should be forced to think before she opens her mouth.

Liverpool FC should be forced to relocate to Manchester.

The Scottish and Welsh parliament/assembly should be forced to accept MPs from English constituencies.

The French should all be forced to take Chinese citizenship.

Scottish catholics should be forced to support Glasgow Rangers.

Hadrian

That R.C.s officially disapprove of homosexual lifestyles and certainly decry children being willingly fed into the loving, tender care of such is hardly earth shattering. That the State sees fit to FORCE religionists to act against their convictions is very serious indeed. Apart from anything else it reveals their enmity to Revealed Law and more particularly towards Christ's Church. Those who choose to defy will pay a very heavy personal price in eternity.
Further argument simply misses the point.

John Patrick

This is true but it is worth pointing out that the judge based his decision on the fact that homosexuals may discriminate against heterosexuals in employment to their own organizations. Still the decision does leave the possibility that the Catholic adoption agency may remain open and faithful to its principles.

hadrian

Further evidence of just who's calling the shots in our brave, new, Britain comes with the news that a Christian street preacher from the USA was arrested by the Police in Glasgow after he'd been barracked and goaded by a group of militant homosexuals who accused him of 'homophobia' when he admitted that classic Christian ethics sees that way of life as deviant and sinful. He was threatened with a few nights in the local Barlinnie Prison if he didn't plead guilty and pay a fine of £1,000. Thus our nation has come to such a low ebb it instinctively sides with those who but a few decades ago were regarded as shameful but now proudly parade their immorality and want to impose it on others. There is that further case of a homosexual pair who 'reported' a landlady of a B&B for refusing to accommodate them as it went against her beliefs. Where is freedom of speech in this? Nobody is being incited to violence.
Our country has made it clear it prefers gays to Christ's church. The consequences will more and more become apparent as God's displeasure inevitably settles on us.

Andrew Horne

Dear Hadrian, since you believe God's displeasure is visited on sinners, presumambly you believe the Jews in WW2 got just what they deserved? Why, just 60 years ago, these Jews were being gassed and now look - you presumably think - these Jewish sinners are being treated as equal citizens. Please grow up.

When you start slaughtering animals to appease God (as the same part of the Bible that says a man should not lie with a man orders) according to the correct rules (male animals for this, female or male for that) and obey the food laws there too, on THAT day you might have a non-hypocrtitcal leg to stand on. Either you believe in the Bible, or you don't. Please stop cherry-picking those parts that fit in with your sick, sex-obsessed world view.