It is the third Catholic adoption agency that loses its identity because of the new law that forces any such institution to give children in adoption to gay couples as well. After the closing down of "Catholic Care" in the diocese of Leeds and another such agency in the diocese of Northampton abandoning its Catholic identity, the adoption agency "Catholic Children’s Society" of Nottingham too will stop all its relations with the diocese. The result will be a secular type of institution with a general Christian character that will consider gay couples too as adoptive parents. "We have been forced to do this, and I am not happy at all", stated the Bishop of the diocese of Nottingham, Malcolm McMahon, to the Catholic weekly paper "The Universe". The Bishop of Nottingham, McMahon, wrote to every priest of the diocese to explain the situation, saying that the Catholic Primate of England and Wales, Cormac Murphy-O’Connor, tried to find some legal way to allow the Catholic agencies to evade the new law. "It has soon become apparent", said the Bishop in his letter, "that it was impossible to follow the Catholic lesson without breaching the new law. The decision to stop all relations was taken with great sadness".
