The Charities Commission has reconsidered its decision and come back with more of the same.
The Commission considers that the charity has not met the requirements for showing that there are particularly convincing and weighty reasons justifying the proposed discrimination.One key point in the Charity Commission summary is:
The High Court indicated respect for religious views is not a justification for discrimination on the ground of sexual orientation in the circumstances of this case.One might want to counter that respect for sexual orientation is not a justification for discrimination against a Catholic charity, forcing it to close. The case demonstrates that in today's Britain, homosexual rights trump the right to act in accord with Christian belief.
Links
Original High Court Decision: Catholic Care (Diocese of Leeds) v Charity Commission for England and Wales & Anor [2010] EWHC 520 (Ch) (17 March 2010)
Charity Commission Press Release
Charity Commission Case Summary
Charity Commission: Full document of the final decision (pdf)
Statement from Catholic Care
13 comments:
It seems the Frankfurt School planned their campaign well all those years ago. The key to destroying Religion was to be via sexual perversion, pornography, the destruction of the family, etc. etc.
How do we fight this, apart from prayer?
It is immoral and should be criminal to experiment on children in this manner. Nobody knows what the effects will be of having homosexuals adopt and raise children.
Nobody thought that the sexual abuse of children fifty years ago was that big of a deal. Now, 30 to 50 years later, adults are are coming forth with their tales of horror as child victims.
Boarding schools in England and Ireland and in the United States with respect to Native American children are learning that their missionaries wreaked a tremendous amount of physical and psychological harm on child residents also.
I won't be around when today's children adopted into homosexual partnerships begin to speak out (and it might not take long at all) but society better be prepared to fact the fact that we are again harming children.
May God have Mercy on us. Will we ever learn?
The ruling basically confirms a new legal ruling - Catholic belief discriminates against homosexuals.
I wonder if there will be further cases where it is made illegal to discrimate against those who baslpheme, engage in adultary or fornication and covet their neighbours' goods?
Clearly Catholicism does not count as far as they are concerned!
JARay
Going slightly off tangent, sorry all. Our constitutional rights in this country to freedom of Religion are being eroded into simply freedom of Worship. I wonder how long it will be before charitable status will be removed from the Church and various taxes imposed ?
For a society that believes that it is ok to kill people who are unborn ther is no longer a difference between right and wrong, vice or virtue; there is only legal or illegal. Even then what is illegal is now ignored.
Call me stupid- but what exactly ARE homosexual rights? What precisely IS the "right" to have children, or adopt them? The gift of life simply has turned into another commodity in this vale of tears.
Sancta Maria Mater Dei, ora pro nobis peccatoribus.
i dont know british law, (no seperation of church and state), but i would think that homosexuality being deemed legal by the courts would entitle them to equal protection under the law as is given to heterosexuals. therefore one's freedom of religion ends where it violates another's equal protection.
The point is that being a Catholic is still legal too.
A spokesperson for the Equality and Human Rights Commission said:
“Any charity that intends to exclude a specific group of people from the services or benefits it provides has to be able to show that this unequal treatment is justified for very strong reasons.
"The Equality and Human Rights Commission intervened in this case to argue that an organisation cannot be registered as a charity and receive benefits such as tax relief, unless it acts in the public benefit. A charity should also comply with the Human Rights Act which outlaws discrimination.
"We are pleased that both the High Court and Charity Commission accepted our arguments when coming to their decision. The law is carefully weighted to balance the rights of organisations such as religious charities and the rights of minority groups such as those with a particular sexual orientation. We believe the outcome in this case helps reinforce that balance."
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In truth the beneficiaries are the children for whom a family is found. They are so young that their sexual orientation is unknown.
It seems that the various local authorities argued that closure of the Catholic Care service would mean that only a few children would fail to find adoptive parents or suffer a delay. This was felt to be insufficient justification for "discrimination".
Note that the disadvantage to homosexuals would be very slight: other agencies would assess them, so it is plain that the charity and equality commissions consider homosexuals to be "more equal" than children.
It would be interesting to see how Muslim and Jewish adoption agencies cope with this legislation. Perhaps they are protected by racial discrimination laws.
Can anyone imagine having this discussion 30 years ago? So low has the western world sunk. Thinking back to the Weimar republic, followed by the rise of Hitler, supported partly by "respectable people with a sense of outrage", I wonder what further horrors await us.
Steve is right. We are seeing the rachet effect, where nothing can be turned back to an earlier, better state.
Father
Being a Catholic may be legal but acting as one is not always so. Doctors who refuse to administer contraception or indicate how an abortion may be arranged may be breaking the law. Teachers who teach in accordance with the faith may fall foul of sex education laws. The list gets longer sadly.
This case is most depressing.
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