Catholic Adoption Agency in Michigan Wins Settlement Allowing it to Operate in Accord With the Faith

Catholic News Agency ^ | 1/25/22 | Jonah McKeown

[marshmallow]

A Catholic adoption agency in Michigan reached a settlement with the state on Tuesday which will allow the agency to continue to place children in homes in a manner consistent with its Catholic identity.

A 2019 requirement imposed by Michigan that adoption agencies must match children with same-sex couples in order to receive state funding had meant the possible closure of St. Vincent Catholic Charities, one of the oldest adoption and foster care agencies in the state.

“The teaching of the Catholic Church and, hence, the adoption policy of Saint Vincent is rooted in both faith and reason: That children, on the whole, do best in life when they grow up with a mom and dad who are married to each other,” said Rich Budd, Director of Marriage and Family Life for the Diocese of Lansing.

“To have punished or proscribed that common-sense approach by law would have cruelly prevented Saint Vincent from being of service to couples who yearn for children and to vulnerable children who yearn for parents – hence we celebrate today’s agreement.”

Legal group Becket had in 2019 filed a lawsuit on behalf of St. Vincent Catholic Charities as well as people who have benefitted from their work: Shamber Flore, a former foster child placed with a family by St. Vincent, and Melissa and Chad Buck, a married couple who adopted five children with special needs through St. Vincent.

[farming pharmer]

That $500,000 in legal fees should come right out of that militant lesbian Dana Nessel’s paychecks.

[The Sentient Sheep]

“ALLOW” the agency to continue to place children in homes in a manner consistent with its Catholic identity (Christian Values). “Allow “ huh ? Like it’s some sort of complex problem the government has to figure out to give permission.