A Slovakian couple have lost their battle to stop a British gay couple from adopting their two young sons.

The couple’s two young sons, one and four, are to be adopted by a same-sex couple in Kent, to the horror of the parents.

The couple, who come from a Catholic Roma community, argued if their children cannot be raised by a gay couple because their culture condemns homosexuality and took their case to the High Court in London.

However, a judge ruled on 23 May their arguments against the gay couple were invalid, after they were deemed unfit parents by a previous court hearing.

In a statement made by the parents, they said their two sons will suffer psychological damage if adopted by gay parents.

‘If as expected our children will try to find us and their siblings and roots, then they will discover huge differences between our culture and the way they’ve been brought up,’ they said.

‘This is likely to cause them great upset and to suffer a conflict within themselves such as to set them against their adoptive parents.’

The parents also accused Kent County Council of attempting to brainwash their children into becoming white, middle-class English kids, the BBC reports.

The two boys were ruled to be put up for adoption after social workers deemed they were not being looked after well enough.

At a court hearing Mrs Justice Theis said the children were often dirty, unkempt and their father admitted to beating them.

The older children of the family also had bad school attendance.

The family came to West Yorkshire, and were helped with housing by Manchester-based charity Hope for Justice.

Sir James Munby, the most senior judge in the family court, said as the family had come to England, they must abide to the English legal system.

‘There is nothing in all the material I have seen to suggest that the children’s placement with the prospective adopters was inappropriate or wrong, let alone irrational or unlawful,’ he said.

‘On the contrary, Theis J expressly held, as we have seen, that the children’s welfare needs “outweigh” the impact that adoption would have on their Roma identity.

‘The fact is, the law is, that, at the end of the day, I have to judge matters according to the law of England and by reference to the standards of reasonable men and women in contemporary English society.

‘The parents’ views, whether religious, cultural, secular or social, are entitled to respect but cannot be determinative. They have made their life in this country and cannot impose their own views either on the local authority or on the court.’

A spokesman for Kent County Council spokesman said they are pleased with the outcome.

‘We are pleased that the court has recognized that our paramount consideration has been the children’s long-term welfare.’

The parents are planning to appeal to the European Court of Human rights.

