lesson Melissa Buck taught her eldest child was that she was not going to hit him. The 37-year-old stay-at-home mother from Holt, Michigan and her husband had fostered the then four-year-old and his two younger siblings after a parishioner at their church told them that the children, having been removed from their mother, were at risk of being separated. All three were traumatised by physical abuse and neglect.
A similar battle is playing out in Philadelphia, where the city stopped funding a Christian foster agency because it would not work with same-sex couples. In other states which have passed laws protecting religious agencies from requirements that conflict with their beliefs, more cases are being fought. As long as Christian agencies go on insisting that marriage is only between a man and a woman, their continued existence is under threat.
Some conservative Christians argue that if religious adoption and fostering agencies are forced to close, fewer children will find proper homes. Assessing this claim is less straightforward than it might seem, because no data exist on the proportion of placements organised by religious agencies. But Christian organisations have undoubtedly played a huge role in finding homes for children who cannot live with their own families.
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Because they overwhelmingly adopt more than any other group?
What a monster 🙄
Framing this position as controversial...More proof that the Economist is run by the kids who were bullied at Eton.
This shouldn't be news.
Why the economist wants children to grow up unloved and alone.
Hes not closing down the other agencies. Who cares.
I didn’t realize getting kids adopted to loving homes was a bad thing.
RELIGIOUS ADOPTION AGENCIES? OH NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am a foster parent who has adopted two children. I am also an atheist. I have no problem with this.
Could it be, unlike the lefts idols Trump doesn't believe that Religion is opium for the people
Can I answer? Is it to give more kids the chance to be adopted? Is that it?
Because it's good when children are raised in a Christian home with a mother and a father.
Umm, because they do by FAR the best job of placing children with good families?
Why does the Economist hate children?
Screw those kids to own the Cons, right?
Because they handle alot, if not most, adoptions?
Today we're outraged by *checks notes* Children being adopted by Christians.
Delete your account...
The left: You're not pro-life, you're only pro-birth! Also the left:
Why? It’s better than the secular Little St James adoption agency 🤷♂️
Maybe so kids can find a home?
A better question is why do leftist have to hate Christianity so much they want to close adoption agencies
Because children getting into homes are good? Because mothers giving up their children for adoption may wish for their kids to be raised in a particular faith?
Why not?
So they can staff up their Christian Army?
agree with Trump
orgs like these should exist!
114k / 130M = 0.1% A rare disease!
Adopting a child is a wonderful gesture shows great ?
Shame. All adoption agencies should stay open regardless of religious affiliation. This article is a hack job. The outcome is less children are taken care of. Grownup.
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