A Catholic family were labelled bigots by social workers after they complained about the adoption of their children by a gay couple. The parents, of Slovak Roma origin, protested after they discovered that their two youngest boys, aged four and one, were not going to be adopted by the Roman Catholic family they had asked for. They claimed the gay adoption would humiliate the children and deprive them of their Roma heritage and Catholic faith, and said the decision amounted to ‘social engineering’. Case: A Catholic family were labelled bigots by social workers in Kent after they complained about the adoption of their children by a gay couple. Above, Kent County Council in Maidstone, which organised the adoption
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Family, of Slovak Roma origin, protested against adoption of their boys
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The children, aged four and one, are going to be adopted by a gay couple
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Parents said the move would humiliate boys and deprive them of heritage
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Told London's High Court that decision amounted to 'social engineering'
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Yesterday, senior family judge Sir James Munby upheld  the gay adoption
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But he criticised Kent social workers for condemning parents due to views
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Future of boys will now be settled by judges at Canterbury's Family Court
Four children of the @placeholder family were taken into care last year while the family were living in a four-bedroom house in Kent arranged for them by a charity.