Saturday, 21 February 2009

Once A Catholic

Are Catholics an ethnic group? Most obviously, no. But the Irish are. The Italians are. The Poles are. Arguably, the Recusants are. And so on. So, for fostering or adoption purposes, is there not a case for insisting that a child be placed with new parents who share his or her Irish Catholic, or Italian Catholic, or Polish Catholic, or Recusant Catholic, or whatever other sort of Catholic cultural background?
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  1. Anonymous22 February 2009 at 00:57

    No, by definition! ("Catholic" = "Universal") In fact as far as adoption agencies are concerned ethnicity is a good deal more important than religion.

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  2. David Lindsay22 February 2009 at 19:56

    And this is a way of beating them at their own game. After all, you can't possibly be ethnically homosexual. But you can, in certain ways, be ethnically Catholic. And, in those ways, rather a lot of poorer children are.

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