Peter Brookes, in the Times of London, comments on the situation where the RC Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Murphy-O’Connor, who will close down the RC adoption agencies as the government will ban discrimination against gay couples in the provision of goods and services, is supported by our own Archbishop Rowan Williams, who thinks it’s the thin end of the wedge (and about time, too).
How sad.
either that paragraph is missing some punctuation marks or I’m illiterate today cuz I didnt understand it.
It’s a British thang. The government is about to prohibit discrimination against gay men and lesbians in the provision of goods and services. One service they cannot now be denied is the right to go to an adoption agency and be assessed to adopt a child. The Roman Catholics run some adoption agencies here, and the Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster (on the right in the cartoon above) said that if they didn’t exempt the RCs from that provision, he’d close down all the RC adoption agencies. The Church of England’s Archbishops of Canterbury and York, Rowan Williams and John Sentamu, supported the Roman Catholics in their plea to be exempted. Rowan Williams is to the left in the cartoon.
The government decided not to exempt the RC adoption agencies, but wive them a waiver for the next 21 months so that they can close down in an orderly way. But the two archbishops getting into bed together over the gay issue was a gift to the cartoonist!