Christian couple told they can't adopt due to their views on homosexuality.

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I love the hypocritical nature of some atheists in these forums. Most of you would gladly accept secularism as a good form of government since it separates church and state, and yet most of you support the rejection of Christians from being foster carers or adoption parents because they have beliefs that don't gel with your own, or indeed, with most of society.

You're generalising this just a wee bit aren't you? Geez this is like Void's rant part 2. >.> We're not against Christians fostering children outright - it's when they can't keep their religious bigotry to themselves, when they indoctrinate children, force their prejudices unquestionably and uncritically onto innocent infants, corrupting their mindsets so that they too will grow to discriminate against other people under same sex relationships and civil partnership we get the problem.

There is no stipulation (nor should there be) that foster parents or adoption parents are not allowed to teach their children about their beliefs, just as there is no stipulation that normal parents cannot teach their own children about their beliefs.

Under the Equality Act 2010 there is.

The government isn't in the business of creating and upholding morals. The government should create and uphold laws, and one of those laws is the protection of religious beliefs.

That's what the Equality Act 2010 is there for.

The government should no more deny a homophobic religious person the chance of adopting a child as it should an anti-religious homosexual. People's beliefs should be protected under the law, end of.

Unless said beliefs are discriminating others on grounds of religion or belief, sexual orientation and age.