"It is now the case that if you sit on an adoption panel in Britain, you may no longer act in the best interests of children by insisting upon placing them for adoption with a mother and a father; nor may you freely exercise your conscientious refusal to place them in a household where you suspect their interests might be harmed. Today, the Employment Appeal Tribunal ruled against Andrew McClintock, a Justice of the Peace and a member of an adoption panel. He had asked to be relieved of the duty to hear cases which might raise the possibility of children being handed to same-sex couples for adoption. This was because...he considered that there was insufficient evidence that this was in the child’s best interests and he felt that children should not be treated like guinea pigs in the name of politically correct legislation. Since the Department of Constitutional Affairs refused to allow him exercise this conscientious objection, McClintock had no option but to resign from the adoption panel. As he is a Christian, he believed that this constituted discrimination and harassment. The Tribunal ruled not only that this was not the case, since McClintock had not indicated that his objections were rooted in any religious or philosophical belief." COP OUT!
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