[WillowTheWhisp]

I find it interesting that although the Catholic Church's agencies only handle 4% of all adoptions in a year, they handle about a third of those children judged difficult to place. So why are other agencies not handling their fair share of the problem children. Could they be discriminating against them perhaps?

I'm trying to find out how long the Catholic church has been involved in adoption and if it is in fact the chicken or the egg.

If the law already existed and the Catholic church had come along and said we will do this but we want changes in the law just for us then I would say they should not be looking at doing it because they know the score and if they can't work to the existing rules then they shouldn't be starting an adoption agency. But that isn't the case. They have been organising successful adoptions for a long time (and I hope I can find out how long) and now the rules are being changed and they feel they can no longer do so if it means compromising their beliefs to fit in with the new set of rules.

As I said earlier we already make exceptions to some laws for some religious groups so it's not even as if the Catholic church wants to set a precendent on this.

I don't believe they are being unreasonable. I would never expect anyone to do something that put them in a position where they were asked to go against the organisation they represent or against their own moral values, whether I agreed with those moral values or not.