Today I heard of an incident involving an adoption panel evaluating a person's suitability to adopt. Apparently a suggestion was made that the person may not be suitable, since as a committed Christian they may 'indoctrinate the child'.
Surely this kind view should be held up as religious discrimination. Maybe it should be countered with the suggestion that atheists or even ardent agnostics should similarly be seen as unsuitable, since they may well 'indoctrinate' the adopted child with an atheistic position.
So a Christian adopter may well want to take the child to a Sunday worship service? Indeed, just as an atheist might well take a child on a Sunday to a car boot sale, or worse, to a cathedral of materialism (shopping centre) for a regular dose of consumerist type worship.
I wonder, which is ultimately more harmful to the child, and to society as a whole?
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Good thoughts - the adoption issue is coming up more and more - the real questions it seems to me are who are they bothered about - the children? I doubt it somehow, more likely a PC agenda.
ReplyDeleteThe other is would they have taken the same line with a Rastafarian, a Hindu, a Muslim ...? I doubt that as well.
Christianity is seen as soft target.