The Catholic Bishop of Motherwell, Scotland, Reverend Joseph Devine, stated that a Catholic adoption agency would close rather than comply with the recent UK Sexual Orientation Regulations (SOR) and allow children to be adopted by homosexual couples.
Commenting on the possible closing of the Glasgow-based St. Margaret’s Children and Family Care Society, Bishop Devine commented in the Daily Express, “It would be a great loss because Catholic family care agencies have done such wonderful work.” According to the Scotsman, St. Margaret’s presently places 15 to 20 children in new homes each year, provides counseling for pregnant women and helps families get through the emotional and practical difficulties involved in adoption.
The highly controversial SOR’s, which became law in the United Kingdom this March, are supposed to protect homosexuals from discrimination and give them equal access to goods and services, including adoption. Nevertheless, many people have expressed their fear that the SOR’s will in effect be a means of trampling on people’s freedom of speech and religion.
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