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- MAJOR EVANGELIL ADOPTN AGENCY WILL NOW SERVE GAY PARENTS NATNWI
- BETHANY CHRISTIAN SERVIC’ CISN ON GAY ADOPTN MAK THE CHURCH SHE BRIGHTER
MAJOR EVANGELIL ADOPTN AGENCY WILL NOW SERVE GAY PARENTS NATNWI
AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTMajor Evangelil Adoptn Agency Will Now Serve Gay Parents NatnwiThe cisn as more ci and stat require anizatns to accept applitns om L. ) Prevly, openly gay prospective foster and adoptive parents most stat were referred to other cisn amid a high-stak cultural and legal battle that featur qutns about sexualy, relig eedom, parenthood, fay stcture and theology.
Adoptn is a potent issue both nservative Christian and gay muni. Gay upl are also signifintly likelier to have a foster child. ”Bethany’s practice of referrg gay upl to other agenci was not official, the agency’s lears say.
Media reports prompted the cy to spend ntracts wh Bethany’s lol branch and Catholic Social Servic, an agency wh the same fah-based agenci have challenged new requirements to work wh gay clients the urts. In Philalphia, the branch changed s policy to work wh gay parents, and the cy rtored s ntract. And when the anizatn changed s policy Michigan 2019, rponse to the state’s announcement that would no longer fund agenci that did not accept gay upl, a ver story World, an evangelil magaze, read “GIVING UP” wh an illtratn pictg a hand wavg a whe flag om behd a sk.
BETHANY CHRISTIAN SERVIC’ CISN ON GAY ADOPTN MAK THE CHURCH SHE BRIGHTER
Public Relign Rearch Instute pollg shows that 70% of Amerins oppose allowg taxpayer-fund agenci to refe placg foster children wh qualified gay and lbian upl. Although the new policy don’t specifilly mentn anythg about homosexualy, Albert Mohler, print of The Southern Baptist Theologil Semary, says Bethany’s posn is clear.
"As a private attorney, Nsel — who is a lbian — succsfully fought to overturn Michigan's ban on gay April 11, Bethany's natnal board of directors voted to change the policy. Michigan's Democratic Attorney General Dana Nsel announced the settlement last month after homosexual upl sued 2017. Bethany, one of the untry's largt adoptn and foster re agenci, started offerg servic to gay upl 2019 after a legal settlement.
The ternatnal agency will beg trag all s employe, cludg those at lotns that have not worked wh gay upl.