'Adoption is the highest privilege the gospel affords'
Rebecca Chapman speaks to Krish Kandiah.
Dr Kandiah (see photo) is a social entrepreneur with a vision to help solve some of society’s seemingly intractable problems through building partnerships across civil society, faith communities, government, and philanthropy.
Gay adoption
court appeal
Former magistrate Richard Page, who was
sacked after stating his religious view in
an adoption case, has taken his case to the
Court of Appeal.
As a magistrate,
in 2014, he had been
considering a gay couple’s application
for
adoption. One of the applicants had been
previously rejected as an adoptive parent,
and Richard Page thought the couple were
adoption shopping in England with a view
to taking the child overseas. He told his two
fellow magistrates, whilst deliberating behind
closed doors, that he thought the child up for
adoption would do better with a heterosexual
couple. He was reprimanded and ordered to
undergo equality training. He repeated his
Christian belief in a TV interview, and he was
then dismissed in 2016 as a magistrate, and
suspended as an NHS Trust non-executive
director. In a legal first, Richard Page sued
the Lord Chancellor and the NHS Trust for
discrimination and lost.
'Keir Starmer, please don't apologise to me'
Keir Starmer has apologised to me.
On 2 July, he stood up in Parliament and apologised to mothers and adoptees for forced adoptions between 1949–1976, which he described as a stain on our history.