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Originally Posted by angus58
Yet again some PC idiot judge strikes to deprive children of a loving home, and to demonise people who hold strong religious beliefs. Since Christian bashing is now a permissible sport in society, the media and the law courts, this ruling does not surprise me at all. I bet the ruling would have been completely reversed if it had been muslim foster parents refusing to take a Jewish or gay child for example.
It's not the ruling itself I have a problem with, but the selective application of it to different ethnic groups. Shades of New Labour social engineering lingers on like the pervasive and divisive cancer it is.
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It's more to do with the fact that they are using their religion is a defense for their prejudice rather then the fact they are Christian, the same would have happened for any couple and if it was a Muslim couple then they'd be hung out to dry in the press and demonised more then these two are.
I think it's deserved that they face a ban, it's not right to raise a child and pass your own prejudices onto them. They'd make terrible parents if they reject a child on the grounds of something like sexuality which isn't something that's a choice or a concious decision, it's like rejecting someone on the grounds of skin colour. It's wrong because it's not a factor you have any control over.
Granted it's fair enough if a child has behavioral problems or needs the foster parents aren't equipped to deal with as that's doing an injustice to the child as it wouldn't be the right fit for them and they wouldn't flourish. Rejecting someone on the grounds of sexuality is the foster parent's problem rather then the child's and it's just discrimination and prejudice.