In June 2010, New South Wales MP, Clover Moore, introduced a bill to legalise adoption by homosexual couples.

One adoption agency, Anglicare, threatens to withdraw its adoption services if such laws are introduced – and has written to MPs urging them to vote against the bill.

Anglicare’s chief executive, Peter Kell, says adoption is not a “gay rights” issue — but must be based, first and foremost, on the interests of the child.

“Men and women complement each other, and the optimal care for children really consists of being in a family with both a mother and a father” he said.

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Now NSW Cabinet looks like “exempting” both Anglicare and Catholic Agency, Centacare, from the legislation.

Community Services Minister, Linda Burney, says Cabinet will discuss amending the bill to allow these agencies to refuse involvement in adoptions by homosexual couples

She said, “I think the exemption is sensible, and I think it’s important that it’s there.”

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The word “exemption” is, of course, very out of place in this debate.

The child’s interests come first.

Those seeking to protect helpless children from inappropriate placement are not seeking an “exemption” for themselves . . . .

No, they are seeking to assert the rights of the child – and the rights of God.

The State has no business trampling on those rights

Governments who disregard this understanding must be defied, disobeyed and undermined.

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Adults’ perceived “rights” must never trump those of the child. 

Discrimination isn’t always bad.

In the context of adoption, discriminating in favour of traditional married couples is good.