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Stephanie Merritt. The point is that all relationships - gay or straight, officially sanctioned or
not - face the possibility of break-up, but choosing to adopt a child is a pretty good indication
of commitment. The values that really matter in a family are love, support, loyalty, trust,
attention and encouragement.
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,6903,815208,00.html
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Observer: Gays hit back at charity on right to adopt
The Christian Institute, an evangelical think-tank, produced thousands of anti-gay adoption cards.
They are now to be investigated by the Charities Commission for using money raised through their
tax-exempt charitable status to promote 'plain, straightforward bigotry'.
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,866192,00.html
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Observer: Love is thicker than blood
Will Hutton. The Lords say no gay or unmarried couples should adopt. They are wrong...it's care
that matters, not genes.
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,815393,00.html
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Guardian: Peers could block gay adoption plan
Lucy Ward, political correspondent. Government moves to allow same-sex couples the right to adopt
children may be blocked in a House of Lords vote tomorrow. Opponents argue that reform would
undermine marriage and risk moving children from institutional care into unstable relationships.
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/lords/story/0,9061,812047,00.html
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Guardian: Peers reject adoption by gays
Patrick Wintour, chief political correspondent. A Conservative-inspired rebellion yesterday voted
to ban same sex couples from adopting by 196 to 162, despite a plea from the gay peer Lord Waheed
Alli to recognise the rights of gays to parent children, many of whom are stuck in care homes.
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/lords/story/0,9061,813228,00.html
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Guardian: Clash looms over adoption bill
The government today signalled that it aims to overturn last night's Lords vote blocking adoption
by same-sex and unmarried couples, setting the scene for a fresh battle between the Commons and
Lords.
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/lords/story/0,9061,813597,00.html
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Guardian: M'lud, meet Charlie, my grandson
Peter Preston. Stick with people, not percentages. Stick with what people do, the way they are, the
way they relate and care: not with the narrow guardians of prescribed propriety. I'm sick of the
nastiness of "them" and "us". I'm sick of hand-me-down morality and brace-us-up
legislation.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,815952,00.html
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Guardian: Tory leader fends off gay adoption policy revolt
Nicholas Watt, political correspondent. Iain Duncan Smith has moved to fend off a damaging revolt
by Tory modernisers by issuing a private message that they should feel free to defy party policy on
gay couples adopting children.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/guardianpolitics/story/0,3605,824505,00.html
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Guardian: John Bercow's resignation letter
Full text of John Bercow's resignation letter sent to Iain Duncan Smith
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/conservatives/story/0,9061,829826,00.html
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BBC: Tory splits laid bare in adoption vote
A number of high-profile Tory MPs, including Michael Portillo, defy party orders and back plans to
allow unmarried couples to adopt children.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/2401135.stm
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BBC: Tory resigns over adoption vote
John Bercow resigns from the shadow cabinet as he and Michael Portillo prepare to defy Tory whips
by voting to let unmarried couples adopt.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/2396213.stm
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Guardian: Tory rebel accuses MPs of ignorance
Nicholas Watt and John Carvel. John Bercow, the arch Tory moderniser, yesterday mounted a
passionate defence of his decision to resign from the shadow cabinet over his party's opposition to
gay couples adopting children. Speaking in a long Commons debate, the former shadow pensions
minister criticised the "arrogance and ignorance" of MPs who ignored expert advice that
unmarried couples - gay and straight - should be allowed to adopt.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/guardianpolitics/story/0,3605,830278,00.html
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Guardian: Tories fail adoption test
Leader. What was at stake in last night's vote, which comfortably restored the clause, removed by
the Lords, allowing unmarried couples to adopt, was the new caring image that the Conservatives had
striven so hard to project at their annual conference last month. What emerged was the uncaring,
intolerant and uninformed old party. It is no use the party saying it values all families, then
rejecting certain forms.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/leaders/story/0,3604,830060,00.html
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Guardian: Portillo in Tory revolt on adoption
Iain Duncan Smith faced an open revolt against his leadership of the Tory party last night when
Michael Portillo and Kenneth Clarke led a group of eight high profile Conservative MPs who defied a
three-line whip on the touchstone issue of gay adoption. A further 35 Tory MPs failed to support Mr
Duncan Smith in the division lobbies as he attempted to block unmarried heterosexual and gay
couples from adopting.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/guardianpolitics/story/0,3605,830149,00.html
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Guardian: Examine your consciences, social conservatives told in adoption debate
Nicholas Watt, political correspondent. In a long, passionate debate, Michael Foster, father of two
adopted children and MP for Hastings and Rye, warned that young children would continue to
"languish in care" if adoption remained restricted to married couples.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/guardianpolitics/story/0,3605,830135,00.html
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BBC: View from the Tory grassroots
The reaction from Conservative Party members across the UK to Iain Duncan Smith's appeal for unity
after the adoption vote. Video clips from IDS, Ann Widdecombe, Francis Maude and Andrew Marr.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/2406083.stm
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Times: Peers back adoption by unmarried couples
Greg Hurst, parliamentary correspondent. Peers cleared the way last night for unmarried couples to
become eligible to adopt children jointly after an attempt led by the Conservative front bench to
block change was defeated.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,172-470850,00.html
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Telegraph: Scandal of the children denied homes with adoptive parents
Sheila Lawlor. The crisis in adoption has nothing to do with the controversy about granting gay
couples the right to adopt.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2002/11/06/do0601.xml
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Guardian: Lords back gay adoption rights
Patrick Wintour, chief political correspondent. Campaigners for homosexual rights unexpectedly
triumphed last night in the House of Lords when peers voted by 215 to 184, a majority of 21, to
give homosexual and unmarried heterosexual couples the right to adopt.
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/lords/story/0,9061,834341,00.html
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BBC: MP attacks Tory adoption stance
Liberal Democrat health spokesman and MP for Oxford West and Abingdon, Dr Evan Harris, said Tory
pronouncements showed the party was failing to modernise.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2409889.stm
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