Christian Couple Forced to Quit Fostering after Refusing to promote Homosexuality As devoted foster parents, Vincent and Pauline Matherick have provided a stable family home for almost 30 vulnerable children. But the couple's latest foster son is being taken away from them by social workers because they have refused to promote homosexuality. They say that to do so would go against their Christian faith. The 11-year-old boy, who has been in their care for two years, will be placed in a council hostel this week and the Mathericks will be given no more children to look after. The devastated couple, who have three grown up children of their own, first became foster parents in 2001 and have since cared for 28 children at their home in Chard, Somerset. Earlier this year, Somerset County Council's social services department asked them to sign a contract to implement Labour's new Sexual Orientation Regulations, part of the Equality Act 2006, which make discrimination on the grounds of sexuality illegal. (They have not discriminated in any way, but failed to promote is queerdom!) Officials told the couple they would be required to discuss same-sex relationships with children as young as 11 and tell them that gay partnerships were just as acceptable as heterosexual marriages. They could also be required to take teenagers to gay association meetings. When the Mathericks objected, they were told they would be taken off the register of foster parents if they refused to comply with the new rules. The Mathericks have decided to resign rather than face the humiliation of being expelled. Mr Matherick added: "It's terrible that we've been forced into this corner. It just should not happen. "There are not enough foster carers around anyway without these rules. "They were saying that we had to be prepared to talk about sexuality with 11-year-olds, which I don't think is appropriate anyway, but not only that, to be prepared to explain how gay people date. "They said we would even have to take a teenager to gay association meetings. How can I do that when it's totally against what I believe?" Religious campaigners say the couple are the latest victims of new equality laws which they say put gay rights above religious beliefs. The BPP objects to the use of the word "Gay" which in its proper sense means happy and contented. The two things these sad sicko pervo's are not!

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