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The small Friend editorial team tried hard to discern whether there was a Quaker response to the agonised debate over Roman Catholic adoption agencies and new anti-discrimination law We are against discrimination, certainly, but we are for action based on conscience Laws on conscription and taking oaths have been bucked by Quakers; never let it be said that Friends have ever fallen into line with legislation if it went against their beliefs So does the RC stance differ?
Not a letter arrived at The Friend office to help us out You seemed to have your heads down on this one But the arguments raged outside on all fronts and in all types of organisations and activist groups We wondered why any gay couple would want to approach an RC adoption agency anyway, although that is never the right way to look at such issues The problem, it seemed to us, was the church's attitude to adoption by couples rather than single gay people, who might be assumed to be celibate It is the same sex partnership which causes the trouble The church cannot view this union as marriage
Judy Kirby & Metford Robson
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