In good fah? U.S. legal battle over gay adoptn tensifi | Rters

Contents:

• IN GOOD FAH? U.S. LEGAL BATTLE OVER GAY ADOPTN TENSIFI
• CATHOLIC CHARI AND GAY ADOPTN
• CATHOLIC CHARI CUTTG TI WH GAY-ADOPTN SERVICE
• BOSTON CATHOLIC CHARI STOP ADOPTNS BEE OF GAY PARENT LAW
• GAY ADOPTN IN ILLOIS: CATHOLIC CHARI THREATENS TO TURN AWAY GAY COUPL

IN GOOD FAH? U.S. LEGAL BATTLE OVER GAY ADOPTN TENSIFI

""We do not doubt that this tert is a weighty one, for '[o]ur society has e to the regnn that gay persons and gay upl nnot be treated as social outsts or as ferr digny and worth, '" Roberts wrote, quotg the 2018 se Masterpiece Cakhop v. Supreme Court is now liberatg over a se that Duddy-Burke and other gay upl are closely watchg. The agency even stopped providg health surance benefs to all of s employe to avoid givg benefs to a gay spoe.

Dealg wh divis over gay adoptn. "I didn't expect many gays and lbians to e to a Catholic agency, but if they did I wanted to make sure they were treated wh digny, " he said. The document nounced those unns as "gravely unjt laws" and stated there were "absolutely no grounds for nsirg homosexual unns to be any way siar or even remotely analogo to God's plan for marriage and fay.

CATHOLIC CHARI AND GAY ADOPTN

In a type of "don't ask-don't tell" manver, church employe San Francis would be allowed to signate anyone legally domiciled wh them to share their benefs, whether an agg parent, unemployed sister or gay partner.

"I didn't expect many gays and lbians to e to a Catholic agency, but if they did I wanted to make sure they were treated wh digny. Sparked by a prs quiry om The Boston Globe, the rdal sent a statement back to his former archdce San Francis statg that " has been and remas my posn that Catholic agenci should not place children homosexual hoeholds. "In California, some of the largt horts for potential adoptive parents are gay and lbian upl.

I was also the father of a gay son. Cahill views the current legal, cultural and theologil divis over gay adoptn as part of broar church trends.

CATHOLIC CHARI CUTTG TI WH GAY-ADOPTN SERVICE

In 2017, the urt led favor of a Colorado baker who had refed on relig grounds to create a weddg ke for a gay uple. But Freml acknowledg his Catholic fah has been tted by the church's opposn to LGBTQ rights — om the firg of gay teachers Catholic schools to bishops fightg the Equaly Act and opposg same-sex upl adoptg children.

"I actually intify as bisexual, my wife intifi as lbian, one dad is transgenr and the other is a gay man, " she explaed. However, she said her agency do not "turn away" gay upl, rather refers them elsewhere. Some expect the law will make an already nfg system harr to adoptn agenci don't typilly advertise whether they will work wh gay clients, which means the prospective parents will need to do their rearch, make phone lls, risk the huiatn of rejectn, and some s travel long distanc to meet wh agenci that are willg to work wh them.

BOSTON CATHOLIC CHARI STOP ADOPTNS BEE OF GAY PARENT LAW

Over 21 percent of gay upl are raisg adopted children pared wh 3 percent of straight, and nearly 3 percent of gay upl have foster children pared wh 0.

Cy of Philalphia affirms that Catholic Social Servic of Philalphia n ntue to discrimate agast gay and lbian foster and adoptive parents and get paid to do so.

But still rais the possibily that Catholic Chari agenci all over the untry n get back to foster re and adoptn work, be allowed to discrimate agast gay and lbian foster and adoptive parents, and get reimbursed wh taxpayer dollars to do so.

GAY ADOPTN IN ILLOIS: CATHOLIC CHARI THREATENS TO TURN AWAY GAY COUPL

Conference of Catholic Bishops filed an amic brief the Philalphia se, makg clear that they wholeheartedly supported this kd of discrimatn and ignorg the realy that different parts of the untry, the largt hort of potential adoptive parents for many children are gay and lbian upl who want to form fay. And let's not fet that many of the bishops have prid over the firgs of gay teachers and church employe.

In June 2003, the Vatin issued an updated teachg on gay marriage.