Texas House OKs letting adoption groups deny non-Christians

[Elderberry]

mysanantonio.com by Meredith Hoffman 5/10/2017

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Many state-funded Texas adoption and foster care agencies routinely deny non-Christian, gay, and unmarried applicants on religious grounds — and legislation that got initial approval in the state House on Tuesday is designed to protect them from potential lawsuits from doing so.

The private organizations, which are paid by the state to place foster children with adoptive families, want to continue the practice and are seeking legal protections through Texas' "Freedom to Serve Children Act," which the GOP-controlled chamber approved 94-51 late Tuesday night.

A final vote will be needed Wednesday to send the measure to the state Senate, which is even more conservative.

The bill would be the nation's second allowing state-funded adoption agencies to reject families on religious grounds. South Dakota passed similar legislation in March but it's too soon to measure its practical effects. While the Texas proposal may not pass constitutional muster, that hasn't stopped the state's lawmakers before, who have in recent years approved a voter ID law and abortion restrictions that were overturned in court.

More: http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/texas/article/Texas-adoption-bill-OK-s-rejection-of-11132705.php

[geronl]

The left has no problem with Muslim charities that only help Muslims or gay charities that only help gays, but let Christians try it and it's the end of the world.

[IsailedawayfromFR]

Meanwhile the really blue states just pursue them enough to shut them down in order that kids remain in desperate situations.

“Everyone’s still reeling from the decision,” Marylou Sudders, executive director of the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (MSPCC), said yesterday.
“Ultimately, the only losers are the kids,” said Maureen Flatley, a Boston adoption consultant and lobbyist. If other Catholic Charities agencies withdraw from public adoption, “you can’t even begin to talk about what the impact of that will be nationwide,” she said.
On Friday, leaders of the Boston Catholic Charities said they would not be renewing their nearly 20-year-old contract with the Massachusetts Department of Social Services (DSS) to provide adoption services, citing state law that says homosexuals must be allowed to adopt.
The Vatican under Pope Benedict XVI has called homosexual adoption “gravely immoral,” in part because it deprives children of “the experience of either fatherhood or motherhood.”
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2006/mar/14/20060314-010603-3657r/

I never knew there was something called the MSPCC. 

[geronl]

Non-Christians can have their own "adoption groups"