Peter Stanford: Apply common sense and make the law the last resort - Third Sector

Peter Stanford: Apply common sense and make the law the last resort - Third Sector: There have been a number of long-running legal sagas in our sector of late, not least the battle by the Leeds-based adoption agency Catholic Care to overturn a Charity Commission ruling that it cannot change its objects to exclude same-sex couples from its adoption service.

That ruling cuts across the charity's Catholic ethos because, unaccountably (and I say this as a mass-going Catholic), the institutional church still clings to its view that two men or two women who fall in love are doing something unnatural. Any belief in God, surely, must start from the position that we are all as God made us.