Digital Analogue

Synchronicity: US vs UK

I saw the following two stories within a day of each other:

• Derby Christian foster couple 'doomed' by gay views
• State probes religious foster care agencies over discrimination

You should read both (they're short), but the upshot is this: in the UK, an aid agency told a religious couple they couldn't foster kids because they wouldn't accept a gay child (or rather, they would "accept" gay children but then tell them there's something wrong with them); in the US, religious aid agencies with public funding told couples they couldn't foster kids because they themselves were gay.

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