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“Foster child to be taken away because Christian couple refuse to teach him about homosexuality”

Don’t you just love the result of the PC brigade in action?

By JAMES MILLS –

They are devoted foster parents with an unblemished record of caring for almost 30 vulnerable children.

But Vincent and Pauline Matherick will this week have their latest foster son taken away because they have refused to sign new sexual equality regulations.

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Vincent and Pauline Matherick: Face being struck off despite fostering 28 times

To do so, they claim, would force them to promote homosexuality and go against their Christian faith.

The 11-year-old boy, who has been in their care for two years, will be placed in a council hostel this week and the Mathericks will no longer be given children to look after.

The devastated couple, who have three grown up children of their own, became foster parents in 2001 and have since cared for 28 children at their home in Chard, Somerset.

Daily Mail

There is a big difference between being tolerant of difference in matters such as sexual orientation (which I endorse without reservation) and the big time promotion of homosexuality this story presents. Really it seems like the ideologues in power in the UK won’t be happy until “Buggery 101” is a compulsory subject in all of the schools. In a time when there is an almost desperate need for foster parents this sort of thing is just ridiculous beyond belief. Even if we accept the most generous assumption that 5% of the population bat for the other team the sort of regulations that this story talks about amounts to a very small tail dictating how the dog will wag.
Utter madness Comrades
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17 Comments

  1. Suburban Marxist says:

    “Really it seems like the ideologues in power in the UK won’t be happy until “Buggery 101” is a compulsory subject in all of the schools.”
    >
    Hehe…Iain, you sound like those dreaded ‘Islamofascists’ that so threaten our Western ‘civilization’ with, er, homophobia…

  2. MK says:

    Don’t love it one bit Iain, those sniveling curs, in effect they’re punishing people for having beliefs not equal to their own. I did a post about it too, it’s that push for the homosexual super citizen i believe, and they will not rest until it’s done, this is just the beginning.

  3. Elijah says:

    Heh. This really makes we wonder what’s in the future.

  4. craigy says:

    So perhaps you could explain to me, what you think would happen if one of this couples foster children was knowingly gay at 15.

    Who looks after him or her then?

    Sorry son/daughter it’s medical experiments for you, as we don’t want you now you’re gay because it’s against our religion.

  5. TonyD says:

    craigy – I didn’t read anywhere where they said they hated gays. Seems to me that decent people such as these would love any child regardless of sexual orientation.
    They should be praised for not compromising their principles and for not succumbing to PC bullying.

  6. Iain says:

    Welcome to my Blog Tony and I like you got that impression about this couple. The reality is that all children under the age of 16 are not legally able to engage in any kind of sexual activity either with some one of the opposite or same gender and frankly being obliged to take foster children (at age 11)to homosexuality education classes seems ridiculous to me

  7. Elijah says:

    “Unblemished record”.

    I guess that’s good enough reason to dismiss this couple as incapable of raising kids.

  8. Madd McColl says:

    Look everyone, Elijah’s trying to branch out and address other topics. Let’s all make him feel welcome with warm greetings and incouragement.

    Hahahahahahahaha!!!! :-)

  9. Elijah says:

    I’m glad that you think my activities on Iain’s blog constitute the sum total of activities in discourse.

    To quote a great man: “Get bent”.

  10. Suburban Marxist says:

    Iain, by that reasoning there should be no sex education at all for children under 16, even though its been reported that many at that age and younger are having sex.
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    Furthermore, I don’t see why its admirable for one religious group (Xtians)to defy the law of a ‘democratic’ state but abhorrent if another (Muslims) should do so. I can guarantee if it was Muslims kicking up u a fuss about the same issue then you would be yelling and screaming about their homophobia and attempting to use it as a wedge against the Left in their support for anti-imperialist struggles led by Muslims in Iraq and Afghanistan.

  11. Madd McColl says:

    I’m glad that you think my activities on Iain’s blog constitute the sum total of activities in discourse.

    To quote a great man: “Get bent”.

    Hahahahahaahha!!!! :-)

  12. Elijah says:

    Whatever helps you get it up at night McColl.

  13. Madd McColl says:

    Whatever helps you get it up at night McColl.

    BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!! :-)

  14. Michael says:

    There is a very good reason for requiring compliance with the sexual equality regulations, namely, that these individuals, as meritorious as their service has been in the past, could end up with a gay or lesbian foster child and inflict great harm on the child.

    I grew up in the closet and know first hand just how destructive it can be. Moreover, most LGBT individuals know they are differn from quite an early age. By 12, I knew, but suffered torment trying to deny and suppress it.

    Here is a post I did over a year ago that discusses the emothional and pyschological harm encountered. Sadly, this form of child abuse is not limited to the USA:

    http://michael-in-norfolk.blogspot.com/2006/09/i-came-across-this-column-on-blog.html

  15. Elijah says:

    That’s a nice story but how does it follow that they will harm a LGBT child? But I suppose “harm” is equivocal enough to be correct when used in the context of a slap to the hand or taking a sand grinder to a persons body.

  16. Iain says:

    Firstly welcome to my blog Michael :)
    I feel for the fact that you had a hard time coming to terms with your sexuality. Although a quick look at your blog suggests that you are fairly happy in your own skin now.
    I do feel however that your experience in the United States is not entirely analogous to that in either the UK or here in Australia in particular because we have societies that are by far more secular in nature, and therefore far less influenced by the religious prohibitions against homosexuality than in your country.
    With that in mind I suggest that it would not necessarily follow at all that the couple in this story would react with either horror or disdain were they to be told by child in their care that the child was Gay.

  17. Michael says:

    I did not mean that the couple would necessarily react in horror and disdain. I merely meant that if the couple are rigid conservative Christians, they could create a very negative atmosphere for a gay or lesbain child, leading to emotional and psychological issues for the child.

    I may be comfortable in my own skin now, but it was a very, very long and painful road getting to this point, made all the worse by the anti-gay mentality that still is strong in the USA. A child does not need to be taught self-hate and self-loathing, whether the foster parents do so intentionally or not.

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