During an interview at the adoption agency, a social worker asked the couple questions regarding their religious beliefs, including whether his church “still believes in some of the more outdated parts of the Bible, including the admonition regarding homosexuality” according to a press release from the Justice Centre of Constitutional Freedoms. The prospective adoptive father wouldn’t deny the Bible.
Six months later, the couple received a letter informing them that their application to become foster parents had been denied. The letter stated, “We feel that the policies of our agency do not appear to fit with your values and beliefs and therefore, we will be unable to move forward with approval for your family as resources home.”
Trying to get clarification, the couple contacted the social worker and asked what “values and beliefs” had disqualified them. The social worker responded that Child Services’ “anti-oppressive” policy conflicted with the couple’s views regarding homosexuality.
The couple’s lawyer John Carpay told The Canadian Press, “The government has no right to discriminate on the basis of religion when looking at couples who are seeking to adopt.
“You can’t say that someone can’t become an adoptive parent because they’re Muslim, they’re Jewish or because they’re evangelical Christian,” he explained.
When did being a Bible believing Christian in North America become grounds for discrimination, ostracism and shaming? But Christians, take comfort.
Jesus said, “If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hates you”.