UK Daily Mail: "Catholic adoption agency to defy gay rights law"

A Roman Catholic adoption agency headed by Britain's most senior Catholic churchman is to defy the Government over its controversial gay equality laws, reports the Daily Mail:

The Westminster Catholic Children's Society, whose president is Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, will ignore new rules that require it to place children with same-sex couples.

While other Catholic adoption agencies are caving in to the legislation by severing their ties with the Church or even closing, the Westminster Society will continue its policy of placing children only with married heterosexuals and single people.

Its stance will set the Cardinal - who welcomed Tony Blair into the Catholic Church last December - on a collision course with New Labour and the gay rights lobby.

It is a high-risk strategy that could provoke a costly and bruising test case in the courts, with campaigners determined to see the Society closed down.

In 2006, The Boston Archdiocese's Catholic Charities ceased providing adoption services after clashing with Massachusetts state law permitting gay adoption.

I have the feeling we may witness similar events of Catholic counter-cultural resistance in the United States.