Comments on: Anti-Gay Couple Rejected as Foster Parents

By: ~Julie Phineas~

~Julie Phineas~ — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 21:06:03 +0000

WOW The world is changing – great news!!

By: Tina-cious.com

Tina-cious.com — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 16:15:04 +0000

YAY to the UK!

Another reason why the US sucks a$$. If it happened here then the US would probably applaud them and then give them their own reality show.

By: kathy

kathy — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 14:23:12 +0000

I doubt if anyone would question if an agency failed to place a child with white supremacists.

I don’t see this as any different.

By: Heather

Heather — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 14:14:25 +0000

I would respect a foster parent’s personal view that being LGBT is in conflict with their religious or personal convictions. If you’re opening your home to foster children, however, you need to respect that the convictions of those kids are just as valid. You need to be able to support them on the journey they are on.

We always have the ability to say that we would rather not accept a placement, but it’s very unlikely that you would know the child’s entire story when you do.

Our foster children arrive in our homes from a wide variety family situations. Some have been in multiple homes and some of those homes will have included LGBT parents and siblings that these kids have formed attachments to.

Just as you can’t always predict which children will come out as LGBT, you can’t always know who the important people in the lives of these kids are. I would hate to imagine them being placed in a home that condemned a part of their lives that they truly valued. They have enough to deal with without feeling a need to defend themselves or the people they love in the home they are placed in.

By: Jude

Jude — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 12:53:23 +0000

At the same time, I’d support parents’ right to teach their children privately that homosexuality is morally wrong, much as I abhor the thought of them doing so.

I agree. But since they would be foster parents, these would not be their children. They would be someone else’s children. And that is another story entirely.