Article (Jamaica Observer): Church vs State in UK

The British Labour government has moved one step closer to a religious intervention, setting the state on a collision course with the Christian churches.
Anthony Gomes

The issue surrounds the Sexual Orientation (Provisions of Goods and Services) Regulations shortly to be brought before Parliament. The Act is in direct conflict with Christian teaching which deals with homosexuality, casting the state in the role of a moral transgressor.

Initially, the Act impacts on the question of adoption by gay couples, from one of the numerous adoption centres and fostering agencies located throughout the United Kingdom, operated by the Catholic Church and the Church of England. The Christian churches are precluded on moral and religious grounds from placing children in the homes of same-sex couples, where it is more than an educated guess that the children, as they grow older, would eventually conform to the couple's lifestyle.

When it was apparent that there would be legal consequences for declining applications for adoption by same-sex couples, the churches have demanded an exemption on moral grounds. Read more