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| Bishop Kieran Conry of Arundel and Brighton |
What did you think has been going on, since the full implementation of the Labour Government’s legislation making it compulsory for adoption agencies — including Catholic adoption agencies — to place children with gay couples, or at least seriously to consider such adoptions? Cardinal Cormac made it plain that Catholic adoption agencies would have to close if they were not allowed to opt out of the new legislation, and some Catholic charities, like the Catholic Children’s Society, Westminster, and the Catholic Children’s Rescue Society in Salford did indeed decide to close their adoption services. Others agreed to accept the new regulations and cut their ties with the Church: some Catholic bishops, indeed, shamefully encouraged them to do so.
Bishop Kieran Conry of Arundel and Brighton argued that his local adoption agency was absolutely right to drop the word “Catholic” from its name in order to survive after the Government legislated for gay adoption. He explained that it was not worth the Church fighting a legal battle it was going to lose. The adoption agency connected to his diocese changed its name to the Cabrini Children’s Society and agreed to comply with the law. “It’s not that Catholics aren’t interested in this any more,” said Bishop Conry. “But we’re not going to have a public fight that we’re possibly going to lose and come out of it with everyone suffering.”
In other words, don’t fight whether you’re right or wrong: simply conform if we’re “possibly going to lose”. (more...)
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