http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/8353496/Foster-parent-ban-no-place-in-the-law-for-Christianity-High-Court-rules.html#disqus_thread

Should Christians have their natural children taken away as well to prevent the youngsters being "infected" with the religion?

Bit harsh truth now, I bat for the other side but if we are to do it it would be outright war.
Christians, and the bring her down Hewy brigade usually do a good job bringing up kids.
So no not for me, now if we can ban all reildgions teaching all kids, it would be worth the wars in 50 years.

Of course Christians make good parents as do Muslims, diabetics, paraplegics, smokers, receptionists, nudists, polygamists, plumbers, rock stars, xenophobes, ad infinitum.

Fostering a child is different to giving birth or adopting is all. You want a Christian couple to teach a kid being homosexual is wrong then the child gets sent to live with a gay couple next or their biological parent is gay?

If it is about the child as the priority and not the family as a whole (or just about the parents passing on their beliefs) then all the rules change. It is also good to remember that foster children usually have biological parents in their lives with access and certain rights.

You have to feel for the poms.

Now the poor UK has radical ratbag judges, appointed by "new Labor", full of all the self destructive cr4p we are starting to see here.

It is a strange world in dead, when everything that was immoral is now moral, & the citizens of a country have to defer to immigrants who were not invited.

Our grand kids are going to suffer because we let the ratbags take over our world.

I think you are over-reacting Truthnow78.
The courts were not suggesting Christians as such should not be foster parents at all, as you well know.

The court rightly refused to allow an obviously homophobic couple to foster children. I daresay it wouldn't have mattered if the potential foster parents were Muslim, Buddhist or atheist. If they show hatred in their home towards a whole group of other human beings, then it is not in the interests of the children to be placed in such a home.

Homosexuality is not a criminal offence in modern countries, and is not a learned behaviour. People are born gay and have no say in their sexuality. Therefore it is not right to teach hatred of gay people to impressionable children.

Obviously, the state has no control over what the parents belonging to some religions (or of no religions!) teach their own children, but they can certainly save the foster kids from a childhood of listening to homophobic adults rant and rave about other human beings.

We should no sooner want white supremacists fostering or adopting children if we know there is every chance the minds of children could be poisoned by a belief system that is divisive and hateful.

Imagine if the child was/turned out to be gay? How would the mental and emotional torment be any different to that of a black child who had been handed over to white supremacists? Sure, a gay youth would be able to at least hide their sexuality (to a certain extent anyway), but I’m not sure suffering in silence would be any better.

When I read the stories of people like the couple who lost the case, I wonder how we can possibly fix a world where so many have been so convinced in their Christian belief that they’re doing the right thing, out of compassion and love, when it is absolute poison; when it is absolutely destructive.

Christianity is a divisive and hateful religion.