Political prisoner, activist, journalist, hymn-writer, emerging thinktanker, aspiring novelist, "tribal elder", 2019 parliamentary candidate for North West Durham, Shadow Leader of the Opposition, "Speedboat", "The Cockroach", eagerly awaiting the second (or possibly third) attempt to murder me.
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?
No, by definition! ("Catholic" = "Universal") In fact as far as adoption agencies are concerned ethnicity is a good deal more important than religion.
ReplyDeleteAnd 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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