Time to write to my MP
Jan. 23rd, 2007 11:07 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
inulrohttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6289301.stm
The Catholic Church has threatened to close their adoption agencies if, under new non-discrimination legislation, they have to allow gay couples to adopt.
Ho hum. So predictably Catholic church.
The outrage is that Ruth Kelly and Tony Blair think that allowing the Catholic church to go on discriminating against gays is Just Fine.
Why do I feel like I have woken up in Ireland, Spain or Italy in the 30s?
What is the Catholic church still doing running adoption agencies in this day and age? This is precisely why "faith groups" should never be allowed to run public services. And Tony Blair wants to see more of this kind of thing.
Coverage has also been weird. There was a short piece in the Independent yesterday, it was all over the Today programme this morning, but I had to search for it on the BBC news site and the Times (in both it is buried in the "politics" section), and it doesn't seem to be in the Guardian. Apparently the Big Brother shitstorm and the looting of the ship in Devon are more important news than another threat to equality and Tony Blair getting one step closer to turning this country into a theocracy.
The Catholic Church has threatened to close their adoption agencies if, under new non-discrimination legislation, they have to allow gay couples to adopt.
Ho hum. So predictably Catholic church.
The outrage is that Ruth Kelly and Tony Blair think that allowing the Catholic church to go on discriminating against gays is Just Fine.
Why do I feel like I have woken up in Ireland, Spain or Italy in the 30s?
What is the Catholic church still doing running adoption agencies in this day and age? This is precisely why "faith groups" should never be allowed to run public services. And Tony Blair wants to see more of this kind of thing.
Coverage has also been weird. There was a short piece in the Independent yesterday, it was all over the Today programme this morning, but I had to search for it on the BBC news site and the Times (in both it is buried in the "politics" section), and it doesn't seem to be in the Guardian. Apparently the Big Brother shitstorm and the looting of the ship in Devon are more important news than another threat to equality and Tony Blair getting one step closer to turning this country into a theocracy.
