London Correspondent - For Eunice and Owen Johns have been married for almost forty years, there can not have sex outside of holy matrimony. It is a deep conviction that this man lives with his wife, faithful members of the Pentecostal Church. In their eyes, it makes any reprehensible homosexual relationship just as it prohibits a man and a woman share their bed before being passed to the priest ...
In this context, considered the British High Court on Monday 28 February, a couple of Derby (the north-west England) can not assume the role of foster care. The Johns know how to deal with children. They raised four before welcoming a dozen girls and homeless boys. Social services have ever had to complain to them instead.
But then, since 2007, laws for equality have done the Labour vote is very clear. Whether an adoption or a simple temporary, municipalities must ensure that the families to whom they entrust a child advocate the benefits of diversity and tolerance. Even that would go against their beliefs.
That is why when the Johns wanted in 2008 to renew their approval to host home for children from 5 to 8 years, they were confronted an end of inadmissibility. "These people are warm and friendly that will always do their best for a child to feel comfortable and welcome," it said in the report that the mayor of Derby wrote at the time, but " their views on relations between persons of the same sex is not compatible with current requirements and is not likely to change.
" Indignant, the couple challenged the decision in court, arguing that it was the cost of his religious commitment. "We are not homophobic," says Johns, the only thing we refused, is to tell a child that homosexuality is a good thing. It would have been contrary to our religion. " This former nurse, of Jamaican origin as her husband says, moreover, it has never had to speak on this subject before any children she has had custody.
And it considers unlikely to happen given the age of its hosts. The High Court did not listen. Gay rights, the judges argued, "comes before" those Christians, Jews or Muslims, "Our society is now largely secular and pluralistic. We are lay judges to serve a multicultural community," and even if this side of the Channel a state religion, "religion is not the case the government nor the courts." The Daily Telegraph, known for his conservative, denounced in an editorial "a secular inquisition" that "forces everyone to accept new orthodoxies, otherwise the risk of being stuck as a heretic." Virginia Malingre Article published in the edition of 05.03.11 
In this context, considered the British High Court on Monday 28 February, a couple of Derby (the north-west England) can not assume the role of foster care. The Johns know how to deal with children. They raised four before welcoming a dozen girls and homeless boys. Social services have ever had to complain to them instead.
But then, since 2007, laws for equality have done the Labour vote is very clear. Whether an adoption or a simple temporary, municipalities must ensure that the families to whom they entrust a child advocate the benefits of diversity and tolerance. Even that would go against their beliefs.
That is why when the Johns wanted in 2008 to renew their approval to host home for children from 5 to 8 years, they were confronted an end of inadmissibility. "These people are warm and friendly that will always do their best for a child to feel comfortable and welcome," it said in the report that the mayor of Derby wrote at the time, but " their views on relations between persons of the same sex is not compatible with current requirements and is not likely to change.
" Indignant, the couple challenged the decision in court, arguing that it was the cost of his religious commitment. "We are not homophobic," says Johns, the only thing we refused, is to tell a child that homosexuality is a good thing. It would have been contrary to our religion. " This former nurse, of Jamaican origin as her husband says, moreover, it has never had to speak on this subject before any children she has had custody.
And it considers unlikely to happen given the age of its hosts. The High Court did not listen. Gay rights, the judges argued, "comes before" those Christians, Jews or Muslims, "Our society is now largely secular and pluralistic. We are lay judges to serve a multicultural community," and even if this side of the Channel a state religion, "religion is not the case the government nor the courts." The Daily Telegraph, known for his conservative, denounced in an editorial "a secular inquisition" that "forces everyone to accept new orthodoxies, otherwise the risk of being stuck as a heretic." Virginia Malingre Article published in the edition of 05.03.11
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