nment was thinking of “bowing to pressure from conservative Catholics.”
He added: “This Labour Party has an excellent record on equality. We’ve got ride of most of the discriminatory laws against lesbians and gay people.
“I think that this is an issue of equality. It’s exactly the same as saying you can’t have a child for adoption because you’re black or because you’re a woman or because you’re disabled,” he also said.
But is it the same? That’s the whole issue. Catholics would argue that it isn’t: that the fact of prospective parents being gay and of the same sex is highly relevant to the bringing-up of a child. Gay parenting doesn’t offend me personally, but I can certainly understand a moral position that does find it offensive, in a way that I couldn’t excuse, for instance, a ban on dealing with black couples, or mixed-race couples.
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