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UK Couple Wins Back Right to Foster

From the Telegraph:

A couple who were rejected as foster parents after they refused to condone homosexuality have won their battle to apply to be carers.

Derby city council blocked an application from Eunice and Owen Johns to   provide respite care for under-10s after they admitted they could never tell   a child that being homosexual was acceptable.

However, the authority has backed down after the Johns, both devout   Christians, threatened to seek a judicial review.

The couple, who have four grown-up children of their own, were celebrating on   Sunday after learning by letter that they can resume the application process.

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UK Couple Told they are "Unsuitable" Foster Parents

From Daily Mail:

They are devoted foster parents with an unblemished record of caring for almost 20 vulnerable children.

But Eunice and Owen Johns have been forced to abandon their good work because they refuse to tell children as young as ten that homosexuality is an acceptable lifestyle.

To do so, they say, would go against their Christian beliefs.

The devastated couple withdrew an application to their council to continue as foster carers after being told they must condone homosexuality to adhere to gay rights laws.

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UK Foster Parents Win Right to Live their Beliefs

From Times Online:

Andrea Williams of Christian Concern For Our Nation said: “This is a significant step forward for Christian freedoms in that the Council has agreed not to force Mr and Mrs Matherick to act against their Christian beliefs. This should be of enormous encouragement to all Christians who want to take up the important role of caring for vulnerable children.”

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UK Christians Forced Out of Foster Care by Gay Agenda

From LifeSite:

By Hilary White
CHARD, UK, October 24, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Christian couple in Somerset, UK, have been told by child services that they would be required to take teenaged foster children to homosexual support groups and teach the children placed in their care that homosexuality is normal. When the couple told officials at social services that it would violate their conscience to do so, the eleven year-old boy who had been placed with them was removed.

Somerset Council officials cited the recently passed Sexual Orientation Regulations when they decided that people who open their homes to children in need, must also discuss same-sex relationships and promote homosexuality as normal and “equal”.

Vincent and Pauline Matherick have looked after twenty-eight children since 2001 with an untarnished record as care givers. When the couple first started fostering, they took in young single mothers and their babies, but have recently had mostly primary school aged children. They told the Daily Telegraph that officials with the Somerset Council had told them that if a child in their care showed signs of interest in homosexuality, they would be expected to encourage them by taking them to a homosexual support group.

Vincent Matherick, a minister at the South Chard Christian Church and a primary school governor, told the Telegraph, “They were saying that we had to be prepared to talk about sexuality with 11 year-olds, which I don’t think is appropriate anyway...

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HRC's Back-To-School Tips for Gay Parents

Scott Davis, Exodus Youth Director, wrote the following:

In a recent email to gay and lesbian parents, HRC admits that being the child of a gay parent isn't always the greatest thing in the world:

Better dust off those backpacks and sharpen those pencils — back-to-school time is here again. Gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender parents often face a unique set of challenges when it’s time for the kids to head back, whether it’s talking to them about fairness for GLBT families or working with school administrators to create a welcoming learning environment. Find out more about what GLBT parents need to know at this time of year.

"Unique set of challenges" is certainly a mild way to put it. Study after study proves that children need both a mother and father figure who are actively involved in their lives. Children of gay or lesbian parents are automatically denied healthy male or female influence as they grow up. This places them at a tremendous disadvantage as they head off to school, where they must now learn own their own how to interact with both males and females.

HRC makes an even more startling admission in the text of the article, saying "Our children do not need to bear the burden of the struggle for GLBT rights and diversity in their schools".far before the welfare of children.

Perhaps this means they will halt their vocal and monetary support of student groups devoted to homosexual activism! But I doubt it. Based on their actions, activism seems to come

For a redemptive view of sexuality and young adults please visit http://exodusyouth.net.

Kids In Castro Cause Tension

The following LA Times article was passed on to me by a friend via email.  I am going to parse it and make comments along the way.  Be warned:  Subject material will offend most.

 

A Haven's Sex and Sensibility

Protective parents -- straight and gay -- are objecting to racy storefronts in S.F.'s Castro district. Some merchants are defiant.

By John M. Glionna, Times Staff Writer April 21, 2006

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-castro21apr21,0,810728,full.story?coll=la-home-headlines

LA Times

 

SAN FRANCISCO — Brody Paul and his kid brother Zander are making their after-school rounds in this city's Castro district — one of the most openly gay neighborhoods in America .

 

Brody, 12, shops for mouthwash and Clearasil. His brother wants No. 2 pencils. Veterans of tolerant San Francisco , they're unfazed by the two women holding hands and the graffiti etched into the sidewalk: "Nick Loves Olaf."

 

But along Castro Street , the main business drag just two blocks from their home, the boys encounter images more difficult for children to digest. A video store where they regularly rent Disney films stocks triple-X gay porn flicks in plain view. Across the street, next to

their favorite pizza joint, the front window of a gay sex shop called Rock Hard displays a large Day-Glo purple sex toy, leather trusses

and graphic manuals.

 

"It's scary. It kind of makes you shudder," says Zander, who just turned 8.

 

"It's not scary," Brody corrects, offering a typical child's view of anything sexual. "It's just gross."

These are kids who live in Castro, not rural allegedly homophobic America.  This is supposed to be the Mecca of tolerance (hypocritical as it may be).  If you do not buy into the gay dogma at the heart of Castro you are very likely going to face rejection and ridicule.  If these boy's innocent reactions, in spite of a very pro-gay community, city and region, are fear and repulsion, you can't blame it on homophobia.  One of these kids even says being gay is natural at the end of the article.

 

Perhaps it is the messages that some in the gay identified and many in the gay activist communities are sending that create fear and repulsion.  Maybe gay porn next to children's videos like Snow White deserves to be called scary and repulsive ... even by the adults in the gay identified community.

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UK Author, Broadcaster, Subjected to Police Inquiry for Criticizing Homosexual Adoption as “Homophobic”

A British author and broadcaster was the subject of a police inquiry after she criticized homosexual adoption in a live radio broadcast. - Terry Vanderheyden

Court Says Same-Sex Partner Can Claim Same Rights As Biological Parent

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Contact:  Kathryn Hooks, 662-844-5036
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For Immediate Release:  11/4/2005

Tupelo, MS - Yesterday, the Washington Supreme Court ruled that an individual who is not a parent, but who has had a relationship with a child’s biological or adoptive parent, can claim the same legal rights to a child as the parent.

The case involved two women who had cohabitated for twelve years. In 1994, the two women, Sue Ellen Carvin and Page Britain, decided they wanted a child. A male friend, John Auseth, had sexual relations with Britain, and she become pregnant. A child was born in 1995, and Britain and Carvin raised the child for the next six years. Their relationship ended in 2001. Britain then married Auseth, and in 2002, she sought to terminate all of Carvin’s contact with the child.

With only one dissent, the court held that Washington’s “common law recognizes the status of de facto parents and places them in parity with biological and adoptive parents.” If Carvin is able to establish standing as a de facto parent, said the court, then just like Britain, she “would have a fundamental liberty interest in the care, custody and control” of the child.

Dissenting Justice Johnson wrote, “The majority purports to dispose of the constitutional issue raised . . . by waving a magic wand and creating ‘de facto’ parents.”

Brian Fahling, senior trial attorney for the American Family Association Center for Law & Policy, called the majority’s decision “an unambiguous case of social engineering.”

“Washington law sets forth in the clearest terms when a parent-child relationship exists, and the majority simply elected to disregard the law,” Fahling said. “Relying upon ‘advancing technologies and evolving notions of what comprises a family unit,’ the court imposed on the people of Washington their own definition of what constitutes a family.

“This decision is judicial activism in the extreme; it is evidence, not that we are on a slippery slope, but that we are already at the bottom of that slope,” Fahling added.

The Center is the legal arm of the American Family Association, Inc. located in Tupelo, Mississippi. The Center restricts its practice to First Amendment issues.

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The Expense of Spirit

www.city-journal.org/html/eon_10_25_05td.html

"...a lesbian couple wished to have children. An understanding and liberal-minded male friend agreed to donate his sperm, and three children were born... the two women ...split up...The mother of the children found herself alone and in difficult straits...Her former lover was unwilling, because—after all—she was no relation of the children. The sperm donor ...found himself obliged henceforth to support the mother and children financially..."...the culprit here is the idea that the fulfilment of our desires, no matter what our condition, is a right.."-Theodore Dalrymple, City Journal, Oct. 25, 2005

Psychological Cheerleading

http://www.pfm.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=BreakPoint1&Template=/CM/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=17083

"Yesterday I talked about the new book Raising Boys without Men by Peggy Drexler and Linden Gross, focusing on Drexler’s appallingly shoddy research...what Drexler is actually saying: that boys are better off without fathers. Over and over again, she points out that when you don’t have a father around, you don’t have father abuse or father neglect, or any number of other negative effects. “In our society,” she writes, “often we idealize and elevate the role of father in a boy’s life without giving credence to the fact that actual fathers can be destructive and a boy may be better off without his father. Sometimes a father can be an aggressor who berates the mother, is hypercritical of his children, or . . . is simply not a good model.”- Mark Earley, Breakpoint, Oct. 27, 2005