The Christian Institute of the UK reports on further concerns that the same sex marriage debate raises. Parental rights and beliefs. First, Mum's dismay as son fostered by gay men. Also, see Grandparents denied visitation rights because of anti-gay stance in Scotland and Chile student's are taught that Christianity is discriminatory....

"A Roman Catholic mother is taking legal advice after Brighton and Hove Council arranged to place her ten-year-old son with a gay foster couple.

The little boy was placed in care after his mother had a mental breakdown, the result of an abusive marriage, and was left unable to care for him.

He is to arrive today at his new home, where he will be living with a middle-aged gay couple who run a hotel in Brighton.

His mother has not commented on the situation directly, but a Roman Catholic charity, the Thomas More Legal Centre, is providing her with advice.

Neil Addison, the group’s director, said: “We are advising her on her legal options and seeking to resolve the matter with the council by agreement.”

One of the mother’s fellow parishioners added: “Both are Catholic. She is a committed Catholic, he has been baptised a Catholic and brought up by his mother as one.

“She knows she is unwell and cannot cope with looking after him. All she wants is for him to be raised in a regular family atmosphere, by a man and a woman.

“She would prefer a Catholic couple, but if that is not possible, at least a heterosexual one. But social services have given her no choice. She cannot understand how he can be looked after by two men she’s never met.

“Her belief is that they could encourage him into a lifestyle that is against her religious beliefs.

“The other day he asked her, ‘Mummy, are you lesbian or gay?’ She had to tell him she was neither.”

A leading Roman Catholic lawyer, who asked not to be named, told one newspaper: “I have to ask, would a local authority put a ten-year-old atheist child into a devoutly Catholic home? I think not.

“Or would it place a ten-year-old hijab-wearing devout Muslim girl with two gay men? Again, I think not.”

The lawyer added: “This local authority is clearly not taking account of this child’s cultural and religious identity, which it is obliged to do legally.”

Brighton and Hove Council insists that the foster carers are experienced and fully qualified. It has refused to comment on the decision to place the child with a same-sex couple despite his mother’s wishes.

The same council was at the centre of a legal row last year when it pulled funding from a care home which refused to ask its elderly Christian residents about their sexual orientation every three months.

It has one of the highest rates of gay fostering and adoption in Britain.

This is the latest in a series of cases where local authorities have placed children with same-sex couples as adoptive or foster parents against the wishes of the children’s families.

It was reported in April that a family in Somerset were attempting to block the adoption of their two young boys by a homosexual couple, a plan which they said went against the family’s “Christian values”.

The placement had gone ahead despite offers from the mother’s married brother and her parents to give a home to the children.

In Edinburgh two grandparents were told that at 46 and 59 they were too old to adopt their four and five-year-old grandchildren.

When they objected to Edinburgh County Council’s decision to give the children to a gay couple, they were told to drop their opposition or be cut off from the children completely."

Second article is about Five-year-olds 'worried' by Elton John assembly. Also, see Muslim and Christian parents in London may face prosecution for keeping their 30 or so children from lessons promoting homsexuality...

"Parents in Kent have complained that their children were left “worried” and “confused” by a school assembly about homosexuality.

Teachers at Bromstone Primary in Broadstairs played a song by openly homosexual singer Elton John and then explained what the term ‘homosexual’ means. The children were shown pictures of homosexual couples.

The parents said they had not been consulted before the assembly and were treated as ‘homophobic’ when they raised concerns.

Gemma Martin, whose four and seven-year-old children attend the school, said some children were now worried “about being friends with each other”.

She said: “Little girls often cuddle each other if one of them is crying or has fallen over, and now they are afraid to do that in case the others think they are gay”.

Another mother, Michelle Cosgrove, who has three children at the school, said: “There is no way on this earth I’m homophobic – I just want the choice as a parent to talk to my children about this when the time is appropriate.”

She said the assembly had mentioned the example of two boys holding hands or kissing, adding that her children had come home with questions about homosexuality.

The school’s head teacher, Nigel Utton, said the way the assembly tackled homosexuality was age-appropriate and that other parents had approved.

He said it was part of an anti-bullying initiative spearheaded by Kent County Council, and added: “Five-year-olds understand about relationships and about liking people”.

Earlier this year it was reported that Christian and Muslim parents of children at an East London school could face prosecution after keeping their children at home during controversial lessons promoting homosexuality.

In February it emerged that children as young as 14 had taken part in a production of Romeo and Julian, a homosexual version of William Shakespeare’s famous play, at another school in East London."