“English diocese to stop adoption work because of gay-rights laws”
An English Catholic diocese will cut its ties with an adoption agency because the diocese cannot accept the government’s new laws on homosexual rights.
Bishop Malcolm McMahon of Nottingham said he and the trustees of the adoption agency, Catholic Children’s Society, felt they had been forced into the decision by the Sexual Orientation Regulations, a law that bans discrimination against gays in the provision of goods and services. The law would compel the diocese to place children in the care of same-sex couples.