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Catholic Care Loses Appeal on Same-Sex Adoption

A Roman Catholic charity has lost their fight to stop gay people from adopting from their agency.
UK-based adoption agency Catholic Care had gone to the Upper Tribunal to sanction its belief in refusing same-sex couples as potential parents.
However the Charity Commission, the regulator for charities in England and Wales, has insisted Catholic Care’s stance is ‘divisive, capricious and arbitrary’, and demeaning to the dignity of gay couples.
Catholic care say they will close their adoption service rather than provide it to same sex couples. For the full story go here