Should an adulterous ex-con REALLY be so worried about letting gay couples into his home?

[sp1814]

Is it really his kids who he's worried about?

What does he think might happen?

http://www.dailymail....uples-visit-home.html

[jno]

I don't think being an adulterer or ex-con should bar him from fostering, but I wonder how he explains those facts to his kids? Probably the best thing the kids could learn from his past is that people behave in a vast variety of ways and they should learn some tolerance.

[sp1814]

jno

Certainly not saying the chap should be barred from fostering. No-one's perfect.

Strange thing is - his Christian principles dictate his attitude to homosexuals - but there's a couple of commandments that seem to have slipped by him (adultery and theft).

Oddly inconsistent.

[jno]

can't argue with that, sp1814. Perhaps he's one of those pastors who only forgives his own sins. (Not that I am suggesting being gay is a sin, of course.)

[cassa333]

There is a difference between having committed criminal acts and then repented (as the vicar has) and the 'sin' of being gay.

One is a sin pardened by repentance the other one is a sin still in progress.

[sp1814]

Ah - but it isn't a sin to 'be' gay. Only a sin to commit homosexual acts.

Therefore unless the vicar has documented proof, he cannot assume any couple are 'practicing homosexuals'.

[R1Geezer]

I don't quite see why gay couples would need to visit potential foster parents. This is just lefty social workers trying to wind them up. They have a point I don't think children should be subjected to a live time of bullying just to satisfy some sort of trendy quota.

[jackthehat]

Stop teaching your kids that it's abnormal, geezer, then my kids wouldn't get bullied......

[R1Geezer]

I don't, I'm talking about the here and now not a lefty utopian dream world. Children are naturally cruel to anyone who's different.

[jackthehat]

They take their cues from the adults around them..............

[jno]

children are naturally kind. They learn cruelty from their elders.

[R1Geezer]

how do you explain the countless deaths/suicides from bullying? school children spend most of their time with peers. I don't think we need to give them ammo.

[sp1814]

R1Geezer

All prospective adoptive parents go to visit the children they may be adopting in their foster homes.

It would be ridiculous to ban same sex parents from foster homes.

Also, with regards to bullying - perhaps we shouldn't allow obese parents to have kids? I mean, kids will tease other kids if they have fat mums and dads? Or poor mums and dad? Or a mum in a wheelchair?

Where does it end?

[sp1814]

R1Geezer

The number of childred committing suicide through bullying is no excuse for us to put a brake on moves towards social equality.

What you're suggesting is along the lines of "Hey Rosa...just sit there on the bus for a few more years because the time to move to the front isn't quite here yet".

[ummmm]

I've just asked my 11 year old son how he would feel if one of his friends Mother was in a gay relationship with another woman...

His answer....err, I don't care. I don't care if someones gay..why?

Me...some kids get bullied because of it...

Him....Really? That's cruel.

I'm opened minded...it appears my son is also.

[R1Geezer]

Oh perlease, umm, your niavity is breathtaking. individually most children are good and kind, it's when they form groups that individual opinion takes second place.

I agree with most of what you say sp but are we to sacrifice today's children to "progress"?

[jackthehat]

Like I say, don't teach your children that there is anything abnormal about being gay, and they'll have to pick on my son for his sticky-out ears, instead...........

[ummmm]

That's not niave....I'm sure my 14 year old has similar views and I know for a fact that my 18 year old does. It's called teaching your kids to be non judgmental. Something many parents haven't mastered.

[R1Geezer]

yes ummm but all that goes out of the window when they are part of a baying mob.

[ummmm]

Not in my experience.

[jackthehat]

And why does the mob bay, geezer...............?