THE GUARDIAN: Court rules against Christian couple who claimed their beliefs on homosexuality should not prevent them becoming foster carersA Christian couple opposed to homosexuality because of their faith have lost a landmark high court battle over the right to become foster carers.
Eunice and Owen Johns, aged 62 and 65, from Oakwood, Derby, went to court after a social worker expressed concerns when they said they could not tell a child a "homosexual lifestyle" was acceptable.
The Pentecostal Christian couple had applied to Derby city council to be respite carers but withdrew their application, believing it "doomed to failure" because of the social worker's attitude to their religious beliefs.
They asked judges to rule that their faith should not be a bar to them becoming carers, and that the law should protect their Christian values.
But Lord Justice Munby and Mr Justice Beatson ruled that laws protecting people from discrimination because of their sexual orientation "should take precedence" over the right not to be discriminated against on religious grounds. >>> Press Association | Monday, February 28, 2011
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Henceforward, it is to be hoped that Muslim couples will also be disallowed from fostering children, because no faith is as homophobic as Islam is (if indeed Islam is a faith rather than a socio-political ideology). Somehow, though, I can't see this happening, can you? – © Mark
