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Social Care News: Discrimination - Gay rights override religion inadoption

Religious beliefs should not stop gay couples adopting, a Parliamentary committee said last week. A Joint Committee on Human Rights report backed regulations banning discrimination on sexual orientation grounds.

The report said: "(Where) a belief conflicts with the right of gaypeople not to be discriminated against in their access to services asimportant as adoption services, it is in our view necessary andjustifiable to limit the right to manifest the belief."

Labour MP Andrew Dismore, the committee chair, said letting religiousgroups discriminate on adoption was unjustifiable.

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