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Gay-Friendly Adoption Agency Canadian Scouts Launch Gay Troop New Zealand to Bar HIV-Positive Immigrants |
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By Rex Wockner
International News Report Anglicans Punish Gay-Friendly Adoption Agency
Thirty-seven Anglican churches will withhold their annual
donations to the Church of England Children's Society in December
to protest the agency's decision to lift its ban on adoption by
gays.
Roger Roycroft, a warden at St. John the Evangelist Church in Chelford, Cheshire, told local media: "Someone has to stand up and say they don't approve. We feel very strongly that traditional family values must be maintained and, since there is no shortage of families wishing to adopt, we find such political correctness something we have no wish to encourage." Canadian Scouts Launch Gay Troop Scouts Canada launched a troop in Toronto last week for gay and lesbian youth between ages 18 and 26. It is the city's 129th Scouting troop and the first of its kind in North America. Ten people have signed up. A second troop for gays aged 14 to 17 may also be created, officials said. "We wanted to offer a space where our members could come together from a common understanding and common experience of who they are," said troop Chair Bonte Minnema, a Women's Studies student at the University of Toronto. Gays are banned from Scouting in the U.S. New Zealand to Bar HIV-Positive Immigrants
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