Brighton and Hove council has denied it halted plans to place a ten-year-old boy with gay foster parents after his Catholic mother objected, writes Pink News.
Instead, it appears that the gay couple decided to pull out after negative stories in the national media about them.
The Daily Mail is alleged to have published an article about this particular foster case in which ‘Daily Mail columnist Amanda Platell used the case to attack gay people as inferior parents.
“It appears that social services, despite all the evidence to the contrary, still believe that all relationships are equal when it comes to raising children,” she wrote.
“Indeed, in this case they seem to have decided that a gay relationship is preferable to a couple of opposite sex. This is simply not true.” ‘
What evidence to the contrary?
It may also have escaped the Daily Mail’s notice that the children being placed with gay foster parents have often been rejected by prospective heterosexual foster parents as being too much of a problem.
Gay Activist beleives that the care of children and in particular the selection of appropriate foster parents for them is a matter for professionals and the courts to decide, not writers who work for newspapers (or websites) and their editors.
In this case, ill-considered journalism may have led to children being denied the very best choice of foster parents that the professionals could have found for them.
