'Nevermodern' wrote:

Except make eye contact with them or recognize their faces. But I agree - although Brian and 'poolsneighbour' may not - that this is not be important enough to justify overriding their right to follow what they take to be their religious duty.

I assume you are referring to the Eunice and Owen Johns case, where the courts decided that a Christian couple who thought homosexual practice was wrong could not be allowed to continue to be foster-parents. Another example where the right not to be discriminated against on the grounds of sexual orientation was held to trump the right not to be discriminated against on the grounds of religion. I personally don't feel happy about that decision. The hypothesis that, in this day and age, loving Christian foster-parents would tell their gay foster-child that 'he was destined for hell' strikes me as so unlikely that it could in practice be discounted.