{"id":34189,"date":"2012-07-22T21:16:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-23T02:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/?p=34189"},"modified":"2021-04-15T21:19:30","modified_gmt":"2021-04-16T02:19:30","slug":"in-england-christians-cannot-be-foster-parents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/in-england-christians-cannot-be-foster-parents\/","title":{"rendered":"In England, Christians Cannot be Foster Parents"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t

Source:\u00a0<\/strong>Michael Brown, “The Precipitous Decline Of Christian England<\/a>,”\u00a0TownHall.com<\/em>, 22 July 2012<\/p>\n

“And then there was the case of Eunice and Owen Johns, a Christian couple in their 60’s who had cared for\u00a015 foster children<\/a>\u00a0in the past. Last year, England’s High Court ruled that they could no longer take in children after a gay activist organization brought a complaint against them, concerned that kids in their care could be “infected” with Christianity.<\/p>\n

“As Eunice Johns explained, “All we wanted to do was to offer a loving home to a child in need. We have a good track record as foster parents, but because we are Christians with mainstream views on sexual ethics, we are apparently unsuitable as foster parents.”<\/p>\n

In May,\u00a0the courts again ruled<\/a>\u00a0that the Johns’ could not provide care for a 16th child. As Eunice stated, “The judges have suggested that our views might harm children.” (She had previously told a social worker who pressed her about her faith that she would provide love and care for a child who identified as homosexual but would not tell the child that homosexuality was “okay.”) She continued, “We have been told by the Equality and Human Rights Commission that our moral views may ‘infect’ a child. We do not believe that this is so.””<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If Christianity is an infection, may the world come down with it once again.<\/p>\n

“Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness’ sake, For theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are you when they revile and persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely for My sake. Rejoice and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you<\/em>” (Matthew 5:10-12).<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source:\u00a0Michael Brown, “The Precipitous Decline Of Christian England,”\u00a0TownHall.com, 22 July 2012 “And then there was the case of Eunice and Owen Johns, a Christian couple in their 60’s who had cared for\u00a015 foster children\u00a0in the past. Last year, England’s High Court ruled that they could no longer take in children after a gay activist organization…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[42],"tags":[35,572],"class_list":["post-34189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-issues","tag-homosexuality","tag-persecution"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":58521,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/orphan-institution-in-search-of-family-homes\/","url_meta":{"origin":34189,"position":0},"title":"Orphan Institution in Search of Family Homes","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"January 28, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"by Dennis Carrow From the sponsoring church arrangement in the effort of evangelism, (i.e., the missionary society), grew the same carnal diversion from the divine pattern in the realm of benevolence. 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