Seems like all the good news on equal rights is coming from elsewhere these days.
Take this nugget from the UK, which lifted our spirits this morning:
“A Catholic adoption advisory service that refuses to help gay couples cannot win an exemption from anti-discrimination laws, Britain’s charity regulator said Thursday”, the Associated Press reports today.
Catholic Care, a charity in Leeds, northern England, had argued that as a religious group it should be allowed to offer adoption-support services only to heterosexuals. It said its funding from the Roman Catholic church was dependent on its policy of helping only married heterosexual couples to adopt.
Andrew Hind, Charity Commission chief executive, said that under British equality laws there almost no circumstances in which organizations are allowed to discriminate on the basis of a person’s sexuality.
“We have concluded that in this case the reasons Catholic Care have set out do not justify their wish to discriminate,” Hind said.
