All posts tagged "prospective parents"
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GOP Bill Would Place LGBTQ Kids in Anti-Gay Foster Homes
The measure would deny federal funds to child welfare agencies who refuse to place LGBTQ children with non-affirming parents.
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Foster agency sues Biden administration so it can keep rejecting gay couples
A Tennessee foster care agency is suing the Biden administration over the right to refuse to place children with LGBTQ and unmarried couples.
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Biden administration removes Trump policy allowing child welfare agencies to discriminate against same-sex parents
HHS will rescind waivers that allowed religiously-affiliated child welfare agencies to receive taxpayer money while discriminating against prospective parents.
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Supreme Court sides with Catholic adoption agency refusing to place children with same-sex couples
On narrow grounds, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a Catholic adoption agency's right tt refuse to place children with same-sex couples.
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Nation’s largest evangelical adoption agency will allow same-sex parents
Bethany Christian Services' decision reflects polling showing Christians are more flexible about placing children in same-sex homes.
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Congress finds Trump administration gave taxpayer dollars to anti-LGBTQ foster care agencies
HHS waiver is part of a "pattern of discrimination" on the part of the Trump administration aimed at limiting the rights and freedoms of LGBTQ...
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Tennessee Republicans pass bill allowing adoption agencies to turn away gay couples
Bill shrinks pool of available foster and adoptive parents in the name of protecting religious beliefs
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Newly-elected Democratic Kansas governor seeks to block anti-gay adoption law
State's largest LGBTQ organization believes law is unconstitutional, and will be introducing a repeal bill in January
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3rd Circuit urged to uphold Philadelphia’s pro-LGBTQ foster care policy
A Catholic adoption service is suing the city because it can't discriminate against same-sex couples
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Supreme Court won’t hear lawsuit from Catholic foster agency that wants to discriminate against same-sex couples
Supreme Court refuses to take up Catholic foster care agency's lawsuit against Philadelphia
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U.S. House Appropriations Committee approves adoption discrimination amendment
Other Republican-led legislatures have passed similar bills allowing agencies to reject LGBTQ and other prospective parents
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South Carolina lawmakers sneak anti-gay adoption provision into appropriations bill
South Carolina lawmakers have inserted a little-publicized amendment into an appropriations bill to allow adoption agencies that receive taxpayer money to discriminate against same-sex couples and...
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Newspaper ads highlight business community’s opposition to anti-gay Kansas adoption law
The bill would allow adoption agencies to reject same-sex couples
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Oklahoma anti-gay adoption bill moves closer to becoming law
Fate of an amendment to limit the bill's harm could determine future legal action
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LGBTQ groups push back against Kansas adoption discrimination bill
LGBTQ groups and child welfare organizations are urging lawmakers in Kansas to oppose to a bill that would allow adoption and foster care agencies to...
