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发帖数: 29846 | 1 In Britain, foster parents are being told their Christian morals are harmful
to children:
fost_1837346c.jpgEunice and Owen Johns are a God-fearing Christian
couple, married almost 40 years, who offered a secure and loving family home
to foster children aged between five and 10. But they are to be denied the
opportunity to do so any longer because they are unwilling to promote a
homosexual lifestyle to a child. Neither Mr nor Mrs Johns has anything
against gay people but they are not in favour of sex before marriage,
whatever an individual's orientation. Their views were denounced by Ben
Summerskill, of the homosexual pressure group Stonewall, as "old-fashioned".
Yet not that long ago they would have been considered mainstream and they
are, in any case, the strongly held religious views of the couple.
The reason that they were even asked about their views on homosexuality
was because Parliament passed the Sexual Orientation Regulations, making it
an offence to discriminate on the grounds that someone is heterosexual,
homosexual or bisexual. These are the same laws under which Peter and
Hazelmary Bull, Christian owners of a guest house, were fined last month for
refusing to let a gay couple share a room. But in the case of Mr and Mrs
Johns, where is the victim? They were not turning anyone away. Quite the
contrary - they were offering a home to children who will otherwise end up
in care, and there are precious few people who will. Furthermore, since the
children would be aged under 10, matters of sexuality are hardly relevant -
or is it being suggested that they should be? Astonishingly, the High Court
suggested that it was not so much their Christian faith as the moral
certainties of the Johns that were potentially harmful to children.
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Already the Roman Catholic Church has had to close its adoption agencies
because they cannot conform to the law. Perhaps there is a historical irony
here, because we are witnessing a modern, secular Inquisition - a
determined effort to force everyone to accept a new set of orthodoxies or
face damnation as social heretics if they refuse. Parliament and the courts
should protect people like Mr and Mrs Johns, but have thrown them to the
wolves. It is a disgrace.
A disgrace indeed. An Inquisition indeed.
And those foisting their neo-orthodoxies on the rest of us like to call
conservatives fascists. |
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