Adoption clinics not allowing gay parents religion
Same-Sex Adoption: Why Not
It’s not wise to use phrases like “children need a mother and a father.” Some people will reflect you’re equating having opposite-sex parents with a living need like food or shelter. They might show to studies or anecdotal accounts of children raised by same-sex couples who “turned out just fine.”
In some contexts, you might find it helpful to point out the flaws in studies that purport to prove that queer households are just as good as, if not superior to, opposite-sex couples. Some of the flaws include the fact that respondents (usually only a handful of them) volunteered for these studies, so the more obviously dysfunctional same-sex couples didn’t bother applying in the first place. However, this approach can get you off the main moral doctrine too quickly and muddy the waters into debates about whether certain groups constitute “good parents.”
In truth, some parents who encounter unintended pregnancies will probably be worse at parenting than a saintly, infertile opposite-sex couple. But it doesn’t follow that we should place a youngster with those parents because some study says they’d probably be better. Instead, we should follow principl Kansas adoption and foster agencies could refuse placements that move against their religious views — including placements with gay and lesbian couples — under bills in two legislative committees. Opponents of the bills say they would allow discrimination against same-sex couples, decreasing the number of foster and adoptive parents in a system struggling to save up. Proponents say that many faith-based adoption agencies in Kansas would be forced to close if required to place children against their religious beliefs. The bill wouldn’t change anything, supporters say, but place into law practices that are already in place. The identical House and Senate bills, which would produce what is called the adoption protection act, are in committees with hearings not yet scheduled. The bills say that to the extent allowed by federal law, “No child placement agency shall be required to perform, assist, counsel, recommend, consent to, mention or otherwise participate in any placement of a child for foster protect or adoption when the proposed placement of such child would violate such agency's sincerely held rel The Trump administration submitted a brief to the Supreme Court on Wednesday arguing that a taxpayer-funded corporation should be qualified to refuse to work with lgbtq+ couples and others whom the team considers to be in violation of its religious beliefs. The brief was filed by the Department of Justice in the case Fulton v. City of Philadelphia, which centers on the refusal of Catholic Social Services, a religious nonprofit that operates a child welfare agency in Philadelphia, to place adoptive and foster children with same-sex couples in violation of the city’s nondiscrimination ordinance. In its little, the government argued that “Philadelphia has impermissibly discriminated against religious exercise,” and that the city’s actions “reflect unconstitutional hostility toward Catholic Social Services’ religious beliefs.” The latter argument cites a recent Supreme Court case in which the government intervened on behalf of baker Jack Phillips who refused to bake a wedding cake for a male lover couple due to his religious opinions. The high court awarded a slim victory to Phillips on the grounds that th A federal judge on Friday ruled against a religious organization that refused to place foster children with gay families on religious grounds. Judge Petrese B. Tucker of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania commanded that the city of Philadelphia can require the foster and adoption agencies with which it contracts to abide by the city’s nondiscrimination policies. The decision marks the first time a federal court has ruled that such agencies may not rotate away same-sex couples who don’t meet the agencies’ religious criteria. The plaintiffs in the case — Catholic Social Services and three foster families with whom the agency works — were quick to file an appeal. The dispute began in early March when the commissioner of Philadelphia’s Department of Human Services (DHS) discovered that two of the 30 foster care agencies with which it has contracts — Catholic Social Services and Bethany Christian Services — had policies that decline their publicly funded services to same-sex couples. Following this discovery, DHS stopped productive with the two organizations, noting that their policies regard The Department of Health and Human Services announced a new proposed principle on Friday that advocates argue would allow agencies receiving federal dollars to discriminate against individuals based on sexual orientation, among other things. The proposal would rescind an Obama-era rule that prevented foster care agencies receiving federal funds from discriminating against families based on sexual orientation, gender identity or religion. The HHS announcement said "the proposed governance represents the Trump Administration's strong vow to the control of law -- the Constitution, federal statutes, and Supreme Court decisions.” The administration argues that faith-based groups would terminate participating in the program and in turn, reduce its effectiveness. "These require that the federal government not infringe on religious freedom in its operation of HHS grant programs and address the impact of regulatory actions on little entities,” the announcement said. Critics were immediate to oppose the proposed rule, saying it would be detrimental to children in foster tend and could openly allow discrimina
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