Posted on 08/05/2014 8:26:49 AM PDT by Welchie25
Two lawmakers July 30 introduced a measure they say is needed to protect faith-based agencies that provide adoption and foster care services from discrimination based on their religious beliefs.
U.S. Sen. Mike Enzi, R-Wyoming, and U.S. Rep. Mike Kelly, R-Pennsylvania, introduced companion bills titled the Child Welfare Provider Inclusion Act of 2014.
“This bill is about fairness and inclusion. It is about ensuring that everyone who wants to help provide foster or adoptive care to children is able to have a seat at the table,” Kelly said in a statement.
“Faith-based charities and organizations do an amazing job of administering adoption, foster care and a host of other services,” said Enzi. “Limiting their work because someone might disagree with what they believe only ends up hurting the families they could be bringing together.”
The chairmen of three committees of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops said July 31 they support the measure: San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone, Subcommittee for the Promotion and Defense of Marriage; Baltimore Archbishop William E. Lori, Ad Hoc Committee for Religious Liberty; and Miami Archbishop Thomas G. Wenski, Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development.
In separate letters to Kelly and Enzi, the three archbishops said the nation’s “first and most cherished freedom, religious liberty, is to be enjoyed by all Americans, including child welfare providers who serve the needs of our most vulnerable - children.”
They emphasized the importance of parental choice in choosing adoption and foster care services.
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This is exactly the way to get our religious rights back.
Sure is needed to override MA Gov Devil Patrick’s suspension of Catholic Charities from placing foster children since they wouldn’t give ‘em to the same-sexers more than 3 years ago now.
I assumed MA was one of a few states to do this. Maybe its more.
This IS what we’re talking about, right?
Homosexuals don't care whom they hurt. They care only about themselves.
Nice gesture, but won’t pass in the Senate, presidink won’t sign it, and the courts are pretty much a wild card.
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