Adoption agency's victory not all it seems

The debate over Catholic adoption agencies and the right of homosexual couples to adopt has been rumbling a long time now, and seemed to be pretty well one-way traffic as Catholic agency after agency failed to make a strong case. So there was understandably a lot of relief, even celebration, when St Margaret’s in Scotland was last month allowed to keep its charitable status having seemingly found a legal route to defending its position. This relief grew even further recently when the OSCR (Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator) surprisingly decided against appealing that decision. The OSCR had previously (before being overruled by the Scottish Charities Appeals Panel) decided in favour of the arguments of the National Secular Society, who brought the original case despite no evi