House Bill 24 passed during the legislature’s “pro-life day.” It feels like we are back in the 1990s when same-sex couple adoption rights were up for debate. Thanks, Dumpf.
Via NewNowNext:
The Alabama House advanced a bill this week that would allow faith-based adoption and foster care agencies to refuse service to same-sex families based on the agency’s religious beliefs.
The deceptively named “Child Placing Agency Inclusion Act” passed with a 60-14 vote Thursday. The measure is sponsored by Rep. Rich Wingo and seeks to protect the rights of state-funded and licensed adoption agencies to reject LGBT adoptive or foster parents on the grounds of religious freedom.
“This bill unconscionably harms the nearly 5,000 children in Alabama’s child welfare system who are waiting to be placed with a loving and supportive family,” said Eva Kendrick, the Human Rights Campaign’s Alabama state manager. “It’s disappointing that legislators in the House seem focused on creating new ways to discriminate against LGBTQ people instead of securing loving homes for these children.”
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My heart goes out to my American LGBT friends. It’s a war on equality and the theocratic state is the culprit.