Catholic Adoption Agencies Lose Case
Catholic Adoption Agencies Lose Case - Neil Addison
Neil Addison comments on the recent Charity Tribunal decision that Catholic Adoption Agencies may not withhold children for adoption by same-sex couples. The outcome, he says, was dubious, but inevitable. Even had the Adoption Agencies won their case before the Tribunal, they would have effectively been prohibited from operating by the refusal of local authorities to deal with ‘directly discriminatory’ institutions. He suggests that an alternative approach would have been for the Adoption Agencies to openly align their objectives to Church teaching, as they could then have resisted the case on grounds of religious discrimination.
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