Council halts plans to put boy with gay foster parents
A council has halted plans to place a ten-year-old Catholic boy in the care of homosexual foster parents against the wishes of his mother.
The case was highlighted last month by The Mail on Sunday, the day before the boy was due to arrive at his new home, a hotel in Brighton run by a middle-aged male couple.
Brighton and Hove Council has now told the mother it is reviewing its decision after her lawyer argued it was obliged to try to place the boy with foster parents of the same faith.
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State media praises Shanghai Pride
The state-owned China Daily praised Gay Pride as a “showcase of the country’s social progress.”
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The state-owned China Daily praised Gay Pride as a “showcase of the country’s social progress.”
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The state-owned China Daily praised Gay Pride as a “showcase of the country’s social progress.”
Tags: China Daily, Daily Gay, Gay Pride, Shanghai China, Showcase, Social Progress, State MediaIs President Obama lying about opposing gay marriage?
hose of us who view gay marriage as a slam-dunk, open&shut
equal-protection issue don’t need to rely on any precedent.
The 14th amendment says that “no state shall … deny to any person
under its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws”.
If there is a man whom my sister can marry but I can’t,
then we are not equally protected, so the state’s treating us
that way is unconstitutional. END of discussion. Or at least it ought to be.
Couples as opposed to individuals are a little more complicated because “deny to any person”
does not say exactly the same thing as “deny to any couple”.
It is hard, though, to deny the couple withOUT denying either or both of the people in it — SO hard that when that FINALLY (in 1968) reached the Supreme Court, in Loving v. Virginia, they dismissed
the claim that bans on inter-racial marriages did NOT violate the equal protection clause — because white people and black people were both equally prohibited from marrying someone of the opposite race — with extreme prejudice.
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Jon Stewart Rips Huckabee on Gay Marriage
The Daily Show host Jon Stewart discussed gay marriage with former Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee on his show Wednesday night and ripped holes in Huckabee’s argument that gays shouldn’t be able to marry because marriage is the bedrock of our society.
Stewart argued that marriage has been constantly redefined in the past 5,000 years, saying “You write that marriage is the bedrock of our society. Why would you not want more couples to buy into the stability of marriage?”
Stewart also questioned Huckabee’s argument that homosexuality is a choice, saying “I think it’s the difference between what you believe gay people are and what I do … At What Point Did You Choose Not To Be Gay? … I’ll tell you this: religion is far more of a choice than homosexuality.”
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