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Illinois: Catholic Charities of Rockford ends foster care, adoption services
From The Chicago Tribune: Catholic Charities of Rockford announced Thursday that the agency will halt its state-funded foster care and adoption services Wednesday — the day civil unions take effect in Illinois. The decision is the first of what could become a domino effect of Catholic Charities leaving the foster care and adoption business to [...]
Illinois: Catholic adoption agencies want civil union exemptions
From The Daily Herald: Directors of Catholic Charities from the suburbs and across the state gathered in Springfield Wednesday to push for legislation that would allow them to continue refusing to place children with gay or lesbian couples. Catholic Charities wants to keep referring those and all other non-married couples to state adoption agencies. After [...]
Illinois: Proposal to curb adoptions by gay couples is blocked
From The Chicago Tribune: State senators on Wednesday defeated a bill that would have ensured faith-based groups could turn down gays and lesbians seeking to adopt or provide foster homes to children. The measure, sponsored by Sen. David Koehler, D-Peoria, failed by one vote in the Senate Executive Committee. The Catholic Conference of Illinois argued [...]
Arkansas high court finds adoption law biased against gay couples
From The Washington Times: An Arkansas voter-passed law that limits foster care and adoption to married couples and single persons violates people’s right to privacy and is unconstitutional, the state’s high court said. Act 1 unfairly bans an entire category of adults — those who live together in a sexual relationship outside of marriage — [...]
UK: Christian foster couple lose ‘homosexuality views’ case
From BBC News: A Christian couple opposed to homosexuality have lost a battle over their right to become foster carers. Eunice and Owen Johns, 62 and 65, from Derby, said the city council did not want them to look after children because of their traditional views… The High Court ruled that laws protecting people from sexual [...]
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