The
Edinburgh Case: sickening assault on family life
Two young children in Edinburgh are to be adopted by a
gay couple, despite the protests of their grandparents.The devastated
grandparents were told they would never see the youngsters again unless they
dropped their opposition.
Should proof ever be needed of the scandalous social engineering now so
casually being carried out by certain European states, it comes in the case of
the loving grandparents of two small children who desperately sought to adopt
them but saw them instead placed with a gay couple.
A series of articles in the Daily Mail, January 28 - 30, 2009
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
By Melanie Phillips
When homosexuality was legalised back in 1967 did anyone
dream that some four decades on a British grandmother and grandfather wanting
to adopt their own grandchildren would be refused permission and the children
adopted instead by two gay men?
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.
The Daily
Mail, January 30, 2009
'You'll
never see your grandchildren again': Social worker's warning to couple after
they spoke out over gay adoption row
By Jonathan Brocklebank and Michael Seamark
A social worker at the centre of the gay adoption row
told the children's grandparents they will never see them again because of the
publicity surrounding the case.
Heather
Rush telephoned the youngsters' 26-year-old mother after the family publicised
their grievances with her council department.
Mrs Rush
allegedly said the price they will pay for speaking out is complete loss of
contact with the five-year-old boy and four-year-old girl.
The Daily Mail, 30th January 2009
Social
services Stasi should hang their heads in shame
Should
proof ever be needed of the scandalous social engineering now so casually
carried out by our state, it comes in the case of the loving grandparents of
two small children who desperately sought to adopt them but saw them instead
placed with a gay couple.
The
decision was made to refuse the grandparents the right to raise their own blood
relatives and instead give them away to two gay men ‘in accordance with who can
best meet their needs’, according to the social services jargon.
But
how can two strangers – gay or straight – best meet the needs of two children
abandoned by a drug-addict mother for whom the only constants in their short,
difficult lives have been their loving grandparents?
The Daily
Mail, 29th January 2009
By Peter Harris
Do social
workers have grandparents? One is bound to ask this question when you hear of
cases like that of this Edinburgh couple aged 46 and 59 respectively.
In the minds of some social
workers there seems to be a real prejudice about age which makes them turn to
foster care and adoption, rather than care by grandparents.
After all, Cherie Blair was 45 when she had her fourth child, and Tony was 47 -
did anyone seriously suggest that they were too old to be parents?
What
has happened to the Edinburgh couple is all too often reflected in some of the 8000
calls that the Grandparents’ Association advice line receives each year.
The Daily
Mail, 29th January 2009
Boy,
5, forced into adoption with gay couple pleads: 'We want to stay with our gran
and grandad'
By Jonathan Brocklebank and Michael Seamark
The mother of two children who are being adopted by
gay men even though their grandparents want to care for them wept yesterday as
she told of her final meeting with her son and daughter.
‘I
told them, “Listen, Mummy is not going to see you for a while”,’ she said. Her
son replied: ‘But Mummy, I want to come and stay with you and Granny and
Grandad.’
The
row over the future of the five-year-old boy and four-year-old girl intensified
yesterday after the Daily Mail revealed details of the heartbreaking case.
Their
grandparents spent two years fighting for the right to care for the children,
whose 26-year-old mother is a recovering heroin addict. She desperately wanted
her parents to look after them.
The Daily
Mail, 29th January 2009
By Graham Grant and Marcello Mega
Two young children are to be adopted by a gay couple,
despite the protests of their grandparents.
The devastated grandparents
were told they would never see the youngsters again unless they dropped their
opposition.
The
couple, who cannot be named, wanted to give the five-year-old boy and his
four-year-old sister a loving home themselves. But they were ruled to be too
old - at 46 and 59.
For
two years they fought for their rights to care for the children, whose 26-year-
old mother is a recovering heroin addict.
They
agreed to an adoption only after they faced being financially crippled by legal
bills.
The
final blow came when they were told the children were going to a gay household,
even though several heterosexual couples wanted them.
The Daily
Mail, 28th January 2009