". . . and then there were none."

Sobering (I think) news from the U.K. (HT: the Institutional Religious Freedom Alliance):

Until a few years ago, there were a dozen Catholic adoption agencies in England and Wales.  But in 2007 Equality Act regulations came into effect, banning discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.  Six of the agencies secularized themselves, cutting their ties with the Church and changing their standards for evaluating suitable placements.  Five of the agencies, unwilling to change their faith-based standards, instead stopped providing adoption services.  One agency, Catholic Care in the Diocese of Leeds, decided to fight the new requirement, seeking an exemption.

Alas, on April 26th, Catholic Care lost again in the final stage of its two-year battle to be able to keep providing adoption services in accordance with Catholic Church teachings.  So now there are none.  Difficult to see in that a great victory for tolerance, children, families, and gay persons.