In the UK, perversion trumps family; from Melanie Phillips:

To place children with two gay men when an adoptive mother and father are available, just to uphold a brutal dogma, is a sickening assault on family life.

The case in Edinburgh reported today, where precisely this grotesque development has occurred, illustrates the sickening way in which what started out as a decent attempt to be tolerant towards a minority lifestyle has turned into a totalitarian assault upon family life and human rights.

For two years these grandparents fought for their right to care for the children, a five-year-old boy and his four-year-old sister, whose 26-year-old mother is a recovering heroin addict. But at 46 and 59 they were ruled to be too old to adopt.

Reluctantly, therefore, they agreed to the children being adopted by another couple, on the basis they would be brought up by a loving mother and father figure. But although several heterosexual couples were available to adopt them, the children were handed over instead to two gay men.

When the devastated grandparents objected they were threatened that unless they dropped their opposition they would never see their grandchildren again on account of their ‘negative’ attitude towards gay adoption.

If anyone should be standing up for the family and denouncing this type of state fascism, it is the Church.

Instead, the Western Anglican church has given its tacit approval by capitulating to a corrupt culture. Anglican prelates declare that being gay is a gift from God; pagan Canadian bishops bless as holy something that isn’t – those that aren’t yet, will soon; Rowan Williams, the Druid in Charge opines dreamily that gay sex is equivalent to marriage.

Demented, cowardly bishops, having abandoned two millennia of doctrine, declare that their slavish, grovelling obeisance to the Zeitgeist is actually prophetic.

Lord have mercy.