Posted on 07/21/2018 5:54:33 AM PDT by marshmallow
HILADELPHIA, July 17, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – The city of Philadelphia has the power to suspend contracts with religious adoption agencies who refuse to place children in same-sex homes, a federal judge ruled Friday.
Last year, a story about Bethany Christian Services turning away a same-sex couple raised public awareness of both it and Catholic Social Services (CSS) having a policy of placing children only in homes with a mother and/or a father.
Despite both being expressly-religious organizations and the stance aligning with traditional Christian teaching, the city claimed to have been surprised by the revelation, and suspended its contracts with the groups in March. While Bethany moved to comply with the state to restore its contract, the Philadelphia Inquirer reports, CSS took the state to court. CSS is operated by the Archdiocese of Philadelphia.
“The foster care program operated by CSS is, at its root, one designed to provide services to vulnerable children and young people,” the archdiocese’s Kenneth Gavin told LifeSiteNews in March. “Meeting those needs in a safe and caring environment is at the heart of this ministry. Care is provided for all those in need with dignity, charity, and respect regardless of their background.”
On Friday, U.S. District Court Judge Petrese Tucker denied CSS’s request for a temporary restraining order on the grounds that the city had a legitimate interest to see “that the pool of foster parents and resource caregivers is as diverse and broad as the children in need of foster parents,” and that the adoption agency’s policy was a violation of Philadelphia’s Fair Practices Ordinance prohibiting discrimination by city contractors.“The foster care program operated by CSS is, at its root, one designed to provide services to vulnerable children and young people,” the archdiocese’s Kenneth Gavin told LifeSiteNews in March. “Meeting those needs.......
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The policy of the Archdiocese has been clear for decades. The city has been fine with it all along. What obviously happened here was that two homosexuals went to the Catholic adoption agency and wanted to sign up as an adopting “family.”
This was intentional knowing that they would be denied and then complain to local government. Local government withdrew the contract because someone was now threatening them with legal action and then covered their tracks legally by this duplicitous claim that they didn’t know about the policy.
Added bonus for the homosexuals: the Archdiocese and adopting agency had to squander resources trying to preserve the contract.
Lower down, I relay the same story from Western MA.
It was a shame.
It's impossible to get a foster kid except through the state system.
Second, when it comes to permanent adoption, white undamaged newborns are instant adoptees, no problems whatsoever, multitudes of couples are on the waiting list to adopt them. The hard kids to place for permanent adoption are, as above, kids from the foster system.
Once again, you cannot get kids via the foster system except through the state.
So it's not just a matter of getting government funding.
It's a matter of getting government-controlled kids.
BTW, I strongly agree with you about the entangling problems of contracts given by government agencies to private agencies. But since the govt. has taken over so much of what used to be church "Works of Mercy," the whole shebang is now under the control of Holy Mother the State.
“Philly continues to Decay under the DemocRAT/Socialist/Leftists.”
I am so glad that I do not live anywhere near the EAST OR WEST COAST of our country. I really wonder if our country isn’t so far gone that we are circleing the drain.
And so will a large percentage of Catholics still vote for democrats and compromise their faith over social policies, or will they wake up?
Sick 5OB’s are trying to destroy our nation
I was fine to bring in. <^..^> But the school didn't like having strangers teaching. They had someone stay in the classroom first period just to be sure.
This is anecdotal and minimal, for sure. But it illustrates how in subtle ways government money changes things.
This happened years ago in Boston, MA. The Catholic Church in MA also stopped providing adoptions for anyone.
It’s the same with education and medical services. The Church is on a slippery slope when it accepts government money.
Looks like “diversity” is replacing common sense in that community. Too bad the judge the judge couldn’t be held responsible for the outcomes of his actions.
Sorry for the error in posting.
Children be damned- the gays are clamoring so the innocents must be sacrificed.
Sorry about that slipping through.
I would love to know who benefitted from THAT?
Give adopted children to gay parents, revenge immunity to the judges and state adoption agency.
When more of these kids are grown, they may just form their own revenge group to the gay recruiters. Sure beats stupid parades.
Also conveniently ignored at least
with 2 male “parents” is the incidence of substance abuse
and addiction and open/revolving relationships,all which
are bad child rearing environments. Yet in the name
of diversity and “tolerance” (which only truly means I don’t
have to acknowledge approve sanction or fund anything your
fake minstrel show of a court-ordered marriage and family,
yet is lib-twisted into meaning something else)
And yet there is not and has never been the separation of Church
and State intended in the Constitution, only the establishment of
a State religion (the English king was the head of the C of E)
This will go to the Supreme Court and the church will win
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