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Re: gay adoption
The Catholic adoption service (let's call it agency A) currently works alongside other agencies - let's call them agencies B & C to simplify things.
Now if the agency A continued to operate but severed all connections with the Catholic church and was staffed by non-Catholics and went by another name (can hardly call itself the Catholic adoption agency when it's no longer anything to do with the Catholc church can it?) isn't that the same as the Catholic adoption agency closing down completely and a totally new agency opening up to take it's place and this in fact being agency D and not a continuation of agency A?
If that occurred wouldn't it necessitate training a whole new set of staff? Who would finance this? Where would it be located? Indeed why would any independant organisation contemplate setting up such a thing? It would seem more logical that the existing agencies B & C would simply absorb that which the Cathilic church is no longer able to do. Of course it would mean a greater workload and possibly more staff required but it would make more sense for exisitng agencies to take on new staff alongside those already with experience than for a new agency to try to cope with a complete new set of staff without the practical experience. Where human lives are concernd it's too important an area to be solely in the hands of inexperienced people.
If there'd only ever been the Catholic run adoption service and it had excluded certain applicants then I could see the necessity in law for setting up a separate agency but when the separate agencies already exist and have co-existed alongside the Catholic one then I see no reason not to just leave them to get on with the whole of it after the 21 months winding down period. Why would there be any eed to have a replacement alternative for the Catholic one?
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