Owen and Eunice Johns are a couple who have fostered 15 children over the years but are no longer deemed suitable foster parents by the local authorities in Derby.
You can probably guess why people who were deemed eminently suitable in the dark ages of the 1990s are totally unsuitable in the enlightened 2000s.
The reason is the Sexual Orientation Act brought in by Labour and the Derby City Council’s equality policy drawn up in response to this.
But Bible believing Christians are not equal under this policy apparently.
You can probably guess why people who were deemed eminently suitable in the dark ages of the 1990s are totally unsuitable in the enlightened 2000s.
The reason is the Sexual Orientation Act brought in by Labour and the Derby City Council’s equality policy drawn up in response to this.
But Bible believing Christians are not equal under this policy apparently.
Ben Summerskill, chief executive of gay rights charity Stonewall, said: ‘Too often in fostering cases nowadays it’s forgotten that it is the interests of a child, and not the prejudices of a parent, that matter.
ReplyDeleteThat statement would have to cut both ways, but I doubt it does.