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Wednesday July 5, 2006
Northern Ireland to Allow Gay Partners to Adopt
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By Hilary White
BELFAST, July 5, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The government of Northern
Ireland on Tuesday announced plans to include homosexual partners as eligibile to adopt.
Health Minister Paul Goggins says the change will mean that those in “civil
unions” and those who are only in temporary arrangements of the same or
different sexes would be able to adopt.
Under
the current law unmarried persons can adopt children, but there was no
provision for homosexual partners to adopt together.
This decision will bring Northern Ireland into line with the rest of
Great Britain, which has adopted similar measures over the last year.
The Belfast Telegraph quoted Fr. Aidan Troy, a well-known Catholic
priest from Ardoyne who supported the move, despite what he called his
support for the traditional family. “You have to start from the point
of view of what is best for the child,” he said. “We need to ask can a
child grow and flourish in this set of circumstances. Then we are able
to look at this in relation to adoption.”
A more robust Christian response was forthcoming from Rev David
McIlveen, of the Free Presbyterian Church, who said changes in the law
to allow gay and lesbian couples to adopt would be “not only
reprehensible but repulsive”.
“The government is trying to promote this as modernisation of the laws
but it is liberalisation. It will undermine the structure of family
life in Northern Ireland.”
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