No rush to adopt children in Texas so far
A bill headed to the Texas Senate would allow publicly funded foster care and adoption agencies to refuse to place children with non-Christian, unmarried or gay prospective parents because of religious objections.
The state House gave final approval 93-49 on Wednesday, after lengthy debate the previous night. The state Senate is even more conservative, though passage isn’t guaranteed with the legislative session weeks away from ending.
Sponsors say the bill is designed to keep faith-based organizations offering child placement services. They say LGBT couples will be able to find agencies without religious objections.
Many adoption agencies in Texas already admit to not working with adoptive parents who are single, gay or non-Christian. The bill could keep them from being sued.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/religion/texas-house-oks-letting-adoption-groups-deny-non-christians/2017/05/10/48c42ec4-3537-11e7-ab03-aa29f656f13e_story.html?utm_term=.aea1319d2dcc#comments
No, no... I do not see anything about the supporters of this legislation nor the people who voted for these legislators rushing out to pre-emptively adopt all of the 15000 children currently in foster care in Texas to prevent these children from being adopted by horrible loving single, gay, or non-Christian people. Kinda weird, isn't it?
Maybe these people will start adopting once Abbott signs the bill, right?
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I mean, forcing kids to grow up orphans and/or returned to perpetually abusive/neglectful parents is obviously preferable to children being raised in loving homes by single, LGBT, or non-Christian people, amirite? Yay for "Christian" Values!!!
