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March 8, 2013
Scotland Strips Christian Adoption Agency of Charity Status
Charity regulator: Catholic agency 'does not provide public benefit because [it] involves unlawful discrimination.'
The Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator (OSCR) has declared that one adoption agency with a policy "discriminating" against non-Catholic families—and same-sex couples in particular—is operating in breach of Scotland's equality law.
According to a report from the OSCR, St. Margaret's Children and Family Care Society in Glasgow cannot be considered a charity because its policies involve "unlawful discrimination, which causes detriment to the public and to particular groups of people, the effect of which outweighs the other positive effects of the charity’s work."
The independent, Catholic adoption agency's policy states that applicants should "have been married for at least two years"—a policy that prompted the National Secular Society (NSS) to file a discrimination complaint in 2012.
Alistair McBay, NSS Spokesman for Scotland, said he hopes the OSCR's decision will lead St. Margaret to change its policies and "put the best interests of children first, as many other Catholic adoption agencies have done, and comply with the law by widening the pool of prospective parents to include same-sex couples."
St. Margaret's now has the option to change its policy to comply with equality law or appeal the OSCR's decision.
CT has extensive coverage on the topic of adoption, and previously explored whether or not Christian adoption agencies should stop child placement programs if they are required to work with same-sex couples.
Comments
This has nothing to do with equality. Scotland has been at war with the Catholics for generations and this is just another way to push the Catholics out of their country, a Protestant country. Since when do parents giving children to a Catholic adoption agency have no right to say who their kids are raised by. This is the highest level of bigotry. If this country follows through on forcing Catholic adoption agencies giving children who have no say in the matter to homosexuals, especially boy kids, Scotland is practicing sexual perversion and deciding on where these kids go against the biological parents wishes since the kids went to a Catholic adoption agency and against the very beliefs of the Catholic Church and the kids whose religion is more than likely Catholic. Who is practicing bigotry here, sexual preversiion, inequality, and religious discrimination against the agency, parents and kids. And I'm of the Scottish religion which is now being infiltrated by these activist homosexuals to get what they want, future homosexuals.
Posted By: Original Anna | March 8, 2013 7:59 PM
So Scotland is tolerant of all except when it comes to Christian conviction? Equality is raised like a banner for same sex couples and burned for Christian charities. Lets be honest and not call this equality - its enslavement and hammering your beliefs on those unlike yourself, which is also known as bigotry.
Posted By: Isaac | March 9, 2013 8:27 PM
I do not expect a cancer charity to use its money for down's syndrome.
Therefore, why should a catholic adoption charity?
When people give money to a charity they expect it to be spent in a particular way.
There are likewise a huge number of charities that exist to support gay people and gay rights.
What's good for the goose is good for the gander and Stonewall should therefore set an example and give up their charity status to prevent themselves from being hypocrites.
Posted By: Bill | March 10, 2013 9:03 AM
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