Major evangelical adoption agency will
allow LGBTQ families to adopt and foster
children for the first time in its 77-year
history - after it risked losing US
government contracts for refusing to work
with same-sex couples
Posted By: OhioNick, 3/1/2021 6:03:02 PM
Evangelical Christian adoption agency Bethany Christian Services will now allow LGBTQ couples to adopt children nationwide for the first time in its 77-year history, the group announced Monday. The Michigan-based adoption and foster agency, one of the largest in the nation, had previously refused to work with same-sex couples on faith-based grounds and instead referred prospective parents to other agencies. [SNIP] However, in a Monday email to the evangelical organization's 1,500 staff, Bethany's president and chief executive, Chris Palusky, wrote: 'We will now offer services with the love and compassion of Jesus to the many types of families who exist in our world today.'
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professor for violating
a taboo on discussing
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This is wrong on so many levels. This reminds me of a story from Stow, Ohio, about ten years. A church with declining membership considered becoming a pro-LGBT church, just so the church could survive financially.