The High
Court in Britain has effectively ruled that no-one who believes in traditional sexual
morality can foster children. Adoption can’t be too far behind. This is the
latest in a series of rulings intent on driving belief in traditional sexual
morality underground.

Observant
Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, Christians, Orthodox Jews etc all believe in
traditional sexual morality and this ruling presumably means that none of these
can foster, or logically speaking, adopt children.

In turn, it
means that very many good-hearted, self-sacrificial couples will no longer be
allowed to provide homes to needy children making needy children the real
victims of this appalling and unjust ruling.

In its
ruling the High Court said the laws of realm “do not include Christianity”. It
reasoned that Britain is now a democratic, pluralistic and secular land implying
that the court cannot favour one religion or belief over another.

But no-one
was asking the court to favour one religion or set of beliefs over any other.
The Christian couple who can no longer foster children because of their beliefs
concerning homosexuality were merely asking that allowance be made for their
Christian convictions.

The court
wasn’t having any of it. Not for the first time, Britain’s new
anti-discrimination laws were used against religious belief.

The irony
here is that the court, while trumpeting its respect for pluralism, was actually
coming down hard on one side in a clash of values. In this case the clash is
between traditional sexual morality on the one hand, and a much more relativistic
view of sexual morality on the other.

In other
words, the court, backed by the legislature, is imposing a particular set of
values on Britain, and none may dissent. This is why religious leaders have
condemned the decision and The Daily Telegraph accused the court of acting as a
secular inquisition.

A new
absolutism is taking hold disguised in the clothes of ‘pluralism’. The court clearly doesn’t understand the meaning of the term.