Catholic adoption society wins exemption from using gay parents
A Catholic adoption society today won the right in the high court not to consider homosexual couples as parents.
The verdict was welcomed by the society and by the Catholic church authorities, but provoked dismay among gay rights campaigners.
Catholic Care, serving the dioceses of Leeds, Middlesbrough and Hallam in South Yorkshire, warned it would give up its work of finding homes for children, as many Catholic adoption societies have already done, rather than comply with the legislation, which would have barred it from refusing to consider same sex couples.
The Bishop of Leeds, Right Rev Arthur Roche, said outside the court: “Our case has not been brought on an anti-gay agenda of any sort. We respect, and would not want to diminish, the dignity of any person.”
(Full story: The Guardian)
