Federal judge rules adoption agency can't ban gays & lesbians

[DonViejo]

Source: LGBTQ Nation



By Alex Bollinger · Monday, July 16, 2018

A federal judge rejected a claim from a Christian adoption and fostering service that their constitutional rights were violated by being forced to follow an anti-discrimination law.

Catholic Social Services (CSS) and Bethany Christian Services, two adoption and fostering agencies in Philadelphia, were caught earlier this year refusing to place children with same-sex parents. The city suspended their contracts until they agreed to comply with the city’s non-discrimination ordinance.

Bethany agreed to comply, but CSS filed a lawsuit, saying that it should get a religious exemption to the city’s anti-discrimination law.

CSS admitted to discriminating against same-sex couples. It said that it does not certify same-sex couples as foster parents, even if they are qualified under state law. It also refused home studies for same-sex couples considering adoption.



Read more: https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2018/07/federal-judge-rules-adoption-agency-cant-ban-gays-lesbians/

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1. Why doesn't the 'moral majority' just adopt all these kids first...

So they don't have to know the HORROR of being in a family with gay parents instead of banning gay adoption?

[bitterross]

2. Let's see if this is the case that SCOTUS uses to decimate rights

I'm pretty sure that other Civil Rights do not have a religious exemption. Maybe I'm wrong. No one has forced the Catholic Church to have female priests.

This is a very slippery slope they're on though. This could lead to them denying unmarried couples and single parents as well. The article says they allow single-parents now but that could easily change if the courts let them get away with this argument against LGBTQ people.