“This situation has, unfortunately, singled out a Christian couple.

Would the same rules apply if a Muslim family refused to teach a child that it was OK to eat a bacon sandwich?

The world has gone mad........”

“@ Bryan

The whole point is that foster parents should encourage tolerance and acceptance of all regardless of race, religion, colour, or sexuality - no ifs, no buts. Whether a child is Muslim, Catholic, straight, gay, goth, geek (the list is endless!), they should be accepted for who they are without someone else's prejudices affecting them.

If a child is bullying another, for whatever reason, that needs to be addressed - how would you react to an 8 yr old who had beaten someone up for being gay? Do you think a foster carer should tell them it's not an issue because its wrong to be gay?? Or were you just throwing that question in with no real concept of what you thought?”

“Too many "what ifs" here, SarahL, what if an 8 year old child came home and said he'd beaten someone up for being gay? what if the child came home with a black eye because someone thumped him for being a Catholic? What if a child came home and told his foster parents that he saw someone being beaten up because they were Christian? what should a foster parent say about Christians? but what if the child was Muslim and was teased because of that? What should foster parents say IF a child wanted to be a Jedi?”

“Ezzzzzzzzzzzzzzz, Are homosexuals welcome at the Mosque then?”

“@Ezz So what about the people who want the death penalty for homosexuals? are they Christians?. At least Christians no longer want to stone people to death for blasphemy or order the stoning of women because they are a different religion. Ezz are you a Christianophobic?”

“This issue has already had too much space in the paper/website (and I understand the irony of me adding to that by typing this) but this latest attempt by the Johns is indicative of their complete unwillingness to accept that they are wrong and their utter arrogance in continuining despite very clear direction from the courts.

The decision to refuse them the right to foster children does not need discussing further as it has been debated ad nauseum.

Jane, you will see that you are mistaken about what they were asked if you look here http://www.thisisderbyshire.co.uk/news/given-love-care-children/article-3322831-detail/article.html”

“Christianity is pretty much the cause of ALL Homophobia in the world, so before people lump the blame on the fact that they're from Jamaica, you might want to question why that nation has more Churches per square mile than any other place on the Earth in the first place.

And *lol* at the Christians saying that the majority of Christians don't share their views.

Please, do me a favour.

The majority of the WORLD share their view, because of Christianity.

Hence, the fact why people have to be almost socially engineered to become more "enlightened" about such things.

It does kind of help if children are taught not to be bigoted against anything, Let alone homosexuals. And thus the Johns fail in that regard.

Helping children "foster" negative attitudes towards certain sections of society is never a plus, especially at an age where they never should quite understand it anyway..

After all a future where even more people post inane comments on local newspaper websites is a future we don't want..”

“Jane, everyone is "allowed to have views and beliefs" - you can believe whatever you want. No-one is stopping you. What you cannot (necessarily) do is act on said belief.

Do you think that someone who believes it is OK to steal/murder/rape should be free to act on their beliefs (which, again, they're perfectly free to hold) or do you agree that none of us are free to act on any old belief we may hold?”

“@ Tony

I and everyone else have been reading other people's views for weekszzzzz!

And don't interrupt me when I'm kipping :-)”

“@ Tony

I and everyone else have been reading other people's views for weekszzzzz!

And don't interrupt me when I'm kipping :-)”