The Catholic Children’s Rescue Service will be the U.K.’s first adoption agency to stop placing kids because of the country’s homosexual "equality" law. Religious adoption agencies in the U.S. are facing the same dilemma.
The U.K.'s Equality Act, which outlaws "discrimination" on goods and services based on sexual orientation, goes into effect in January.
Carrie Gordon Earll, senior director of Issue Analysis at Focus on the Family Action, said religious adoption agencies are left with a difficult choice.
“Are they going to uphold their belief that marriage should be between a man and a woman?" she asked. "Or will they continue in the adoption business and allow homosexual couples to adopt?"
Thomas Atwood, president and chief executive officer of the U.S. National Council for Adoption, said kids will pay the price.
“It’s tragic that children will not have families as a result of this tyrannical law," he said. “The law ought to allow conscientious-objection exemptions for faith-based organizations.”
Adoption agencies in the U.S. are facing the same dilemma. At least 15 states have laws similar to Britain's.
Catholic Charities of Boston quit the adoption business in 2006 rather than place children with same-sex couples.
“Adoption agencies in the United States need to work with their state legislature to get exemptions in the law to protect them as religious entities,” Earll said.
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